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Mind

בָּלStrong’s H3820

bal

Appears in 551 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bal is the Hebrew word usually translated “heart”, “heart my” and “heart of”. It appears in 551 verses of the Old Testament.

“But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.”
Daniel 1:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Mind, heart
  2. § Leb- = "heart of"
How it's translated
  • heart 95
  • heart my 79
  • heart of 68
  • heart his 63
  • heart your 55
  • heart their 40
  • a heart 35
  • in heart of 21

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 97
  • Proverbs 91
  • Jeremiah 51
  • Exodus 41
  • Ecclesiastes 34
  • Ezekiel 32

33 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 551 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 4
4:1128:6529:429:19
Joshua 2
11:2014:8
Ruth 2
2:133:7
Ezra 2
6:227:27
Song of Solomon 3
3:115:28:6
Daniel 2
1:810:12
Amos 1
2:16
Obadiah 1
1:3
Nahum 1
2:10
Zephaniah 1
3:14
Zechariah 3
7:1210:712:5
Malachi 2
2:24:6
Hebrew dictionary

בָּל bal · mind

mind, heart Aramaic of lev (לֵב "heart" H3820A)

לֵב lev · Leb

§ Leb- = "heart of" (probably a cryptic name for Babylon by Atbash)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “mind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MIND, noun

[Latin reminiscor; Latin mens; Gr. memory, mention, to remember, mind ardor of mind vehemence; anger. mind signifies properly intention, a reaching or inclining forward to an object, from the primary sense of extending, stretching or inclining, or advancing eagerly, pushing or setting forward, whence the Greek sense of the word, in analogy with the Teutonic mod, moed, muth, mind courage, spirit, mettle. So Latin animus, animosus.]

  1. Intention; purpose; design.“The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination; how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind” Proverbs 21:27
  2. Inclination; will; desire; a sense much used, but expressing less than settled purpose; as in the common phrases, 'I wish to know your mind; ' 'let me know your mind; ' 'he had a mind to go; ' 'he has a partner to his mind '
  3. Opinion; as, to express one's mind We are of one mind
  4. Memory; remembrance; as, to put one in mind; to call to mind; the fact is out of my mind; time out of mind From the operations of the intellect in man, this word came to signify.
All definitions and other forms of “mind”
  1. The intellectual or intelligent power in man; the understanding; the power that conceives, judges or reasons.
  2. The heart or seat of affection.“Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah” Genesis 26:35
  3. The will and affection; as readiness of mind Acts 17:11
  4. The implanted principle of grace. Romans 7:23

MIND, verb transitive

To attend to; to fix the thoughts on; to regard with attention.

  1. “MIND not high things” Romans 12:16
  2. To attend to or regard with submission; to obey.
  3. To put in mind; to remind.
  4. To intend; to mean.

MIND, verb intransitive

To be inclined or disposed to incline.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.