Heart
לִבָּהStrong’s H3826libbah (lib-bah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Libbah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hearts”, “hearts their” and “hearts of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.”
Meaning
- Heart
How it's translated
- hearts 4
- in hearts their 1
- hearts of 1
- anger your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Psalms 2
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 125:4Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
- Proverbs 15:11Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
- Proverbs 17:3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
- Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
- Proverbs 24:12If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
- Ezekiel 16:30How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Hebrew dictionary
לִבָּה libbah · heart
heart
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.