Heart
לְבַבStrong’s H3825levav (le-vav)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Levav is the Aramaic word usually translated “heart your”, “heart its” and “heart of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.”
Meaning
- Heart, mind
How it's translated
- heart your 2
- heart its 1
- and heart of 1
- heart his 1
- and heart his 1
- and a heart of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 6
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:16In contextLet his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
- Daniel 5:20In contextBut when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
- Daniel 5:21In contextAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 5:22In contextAnd thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
- Daniel 7:4In contextThe first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
Aramaic dictionary
לְבַב levav · heart
heart, mind Aramaic of le.vav (לֵבָב "heart" H3824)
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.]
- A muscular viscus, which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in the thorax.
- 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.
- The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.
- The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, pleasure etc.
All definitions and other forms of “heart”
- 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
- The seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart
- 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
- Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindess.
- Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to give heart; to recover heart
- 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
- Disposition of mind.
- Secret meaning; real intention.
- Conscience, or sense of good or ill.
- Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility.
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.