לֵב

levheart
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine595 occurrences33 books551 verses
This word comes from the name of Chaldea.

Definition

a form of H3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Traditional renderings: care for, comfortably, consent, × considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart(-ed), × heed, × I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), × regard(-ed), × themselves, × unawares, understanding, × well, willingly, wisdom.

Glossary entries

Chaldea, Chaldeans

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

595 total
  1. Isaiah 51:7בְלִבָּ֑ם · in your hearts
    Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
  2. Isaiah 57:1לֵ֑ב · heart
    The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.
  3. Isaiah 57:11לִבֵּ֑ךְ · heart
    Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?
  4. Isaiah 57:15לֵ֥ב · the heart
    For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
  5. Isaiah 57:17לִבּֽוֹ׃ · of his heart
    I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
  6. Isaiah 59:13מִלֵּ֖ב · from the heart
    …rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
  7. Isaiah 61:1לֵ֔ב
    The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
  8. Isaiah 63:4בְּלִבִּ֑י · was in My heart
    For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
  9. Isaiah 63:17לִבֵּ֖נוּ · our hearts
    Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
  10. Isaiah 65:14 (2×)לֵ֑ב · heart; לֵ֔ב · heart
    My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
  11. Isaiah 65:17לֵֽב׃ · mind
    For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
  12. Isaiah 66:14לִבְּכֶ֔ם · you
    When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
  13. Jeremiah 3:10לִבָּ֑הּ · her heart
    Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
  14. Jeremiah 3:15כְּלִבִּ֑י · My own heart
    Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
  15. Jeremiah 3:16לֵ֑ב · mind
    “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
  16. Jeremiah 3:17לִבָּ֥ם · hearts
    At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
  17. Jeremiah 4:9 (2×)לֵב־ · their courage; וְלֵ֣ב
    “In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.”
  18. Jeremiah 4:14לִבֵּךְ֙ · from your heart
    Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
  19. Jeremiah 4:18לִבֵּֽךְ׃ס · heart
    “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
  20. Jeremiah 4:19 (2×)לִבִּ֛י · in my chest; לִבִּ֖י · My heart
    My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
  21. “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  22. Jeremiah 5:23לֵ֖ב · hearts
    But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
  23. Jeremiah 7:24לִבָּ֣ם · hearts
    Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
  24. Jeremiah 7:31לִבִּֽי׃ס · My mind
    They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
  25. Jeremiah 8:18לִבִּ֥י · my heart
    My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
  26. Jeremiah 9:14לִבָּ֑ם · of their hearts
    Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
  27. Jeremiah 9:26לֵֽב׃ס · in heart
    Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
  28. Jeremiah 11:8לִבָּ֣ם · heart
    Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
  29. Jeremiah 11:20וָלֵ֑ב · and mind
    O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
  30. Jeremiah 12:3לִבִּ֖י · my heart
    But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
  31. Jeremiah 12:11לֵֽב׃ · heart
    They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
  32. Jeremiah 13:10לִבָּ֔ם · of their own hearts
    These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
  33. Jeremiah 14:14לִבָּ֔ם · of their own minds
    “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
  34. Jeremiah 16:12לִבּֽוֹ־ · heart
    And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
  35. Jeremiah 17:1לִבָּ֔ם · of their hearts
    “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
  36. Jeremiah 17:5לִבּֽוֹ׃ · his heart
    This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
  37. Jeremiah 17:9הַלֵּ֛ב · The heart
    The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
  38. Jeremiah 17:10לֵ֖ב · the heart
    I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
  39. Jeremiah 18:12לִבּֽוֹ־ · heart
    But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
  40. Jeremiah 19:5לִבִּֽי׃פ · My mind
    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
  41. Jeremiah 20:9בְלִבִּי֙ · in my heart
    If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
  42. Jeremiah 20:12וָלֵ֑ב · and mind
    O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
  43. Jeremiah 22:17וְלִבְּךָ֔ · and heart
    “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
  44. Jeremiah 23:9לִבִּ֣י · My heart
    As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.
  45. Jeremiah 23:16לִבָּם֙ · from their own minds
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
  46. Jeremiah 23:17לִבּוֹ֙ · of his own heart
    They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
  47. Jeremiah 23:20לִבּ֑וֹ · of His heart
    The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.