Heart
שֶׂכְוִיStrong’s H7907sekhvi (sekh-vi)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sekhvi is the Hebrew word usually translated “heart”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?”
Meaning
- A celestial appearance or phenomenon, mindmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- to the heart 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שֶׂכְוִי sekhvi · heart
1) a celestial appearance or phenomenon, mind 1a) meaning uncertain
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.