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Heart

לֵבָבStrong’s H3824

levav (le-vav)

Appears in 230 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Levav is the Hebrew word usually translated “heart your”, “heart his” and “heart”. It appears in 230 verses of the Old Testament.

“And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.”
Daniel 8:25 KJV
Meaning
  1. Inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understandinginner part, midst
How it's translated
  • heart your 74
  • heart his 24
  • heart 23
  • heart my 21
  • in heart your 20
  • heart of 16
  • heart their 14
  • in heart their 9

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

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 43
  • Psalms 33
  • 2 Chronicles 26
  • 1 Kings 18
  • Isaiah 16
  • 1 Samuel 12

31 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 230 verses, by book
Genesis 3
20:520:631:26
Exodus 1
14:5
Leviticus 3
19:1726:3626:41
Numbers 1
15:39
Judges 2
19:819:9
2 Samuel 2
7:319:14
Ezra 1
7:10
Nehemiah 1
9:8
Proverbs 2
4:216:25
Ecclesiastes 1
9:3
Lamentations 1
3:41
Hosea 1
7:2
Joel 2
2:122:13
Jonah 1
2:3
Nahum 1
2:7
Zephaniah 2
1:122:15
Zechariah 2
7:108:17
Hebrew dictionary

לֵבָב levav · heart

1) inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding 1a) inner part, midst 1a1) midst (of things) 1a2) heart (of man) 1a3) soul, heart (of man) 1a4) mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory 1a5) inclination, resolution, determination (of will) 1a6) conscience 1a7) heart (of moral character) 1a8) as seat of appetites 1a9) as seat of emotions and passions 1a10) as seat of courage Aramaic equivalent: le.vav (לְבַב "heart" H3825)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

HEART, noun

[Latin cor, cordis, and allied to Eng.core, or named from motion, pulsation.]

  1. A muscular viscus, which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in the thorax.
  2. The inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; as the heart of a country, kingdom or empire; the heart of a town; the heart of a tree.
  3. The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.
  4. The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, pleasure etc.
All definitions and other forms of “heart”
  1. By a metonymy, heart is used for an affection or passion, and particularly for love.“The king's heart was towards Absalom” 2 Samuel 14:1
  2. The seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart
  3. The seat of the will; hence, secret purposes, intentions or designs.“The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” Ecclesiastes 8:11
  4. Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindess.
  5. Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to give heart; to recover heart
  6. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.“Michal saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart” 2 Samuel 6:16
  7. Disposition of mind.
  8. Secret meaning; real intention.
  9. Conscience, or sense of good or ill.
  10. Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility.
  11. The utmost degree.

HE'ART, verb intransitive

To encourage. [Not much used.]

    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.