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.
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
Where it occurs
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- Ezekiel 27:4בְּלֵ֥ב · are in the heartYour borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
- Ezekiel 27:25בְּלֵ֥ב־ · in the heartThe ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.
- Ezekiel 27:26בְּלֵ֥ב · in the heartYour oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
- Ezekiel 27:27בְּלֵ֣ב · into the heartYour wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
- Ezekiel 28:2 (4×)לִבְּךָ֙ · Your heart; בְּלֵ֣ב · in the heart; לִבְּךָ֖ · your heart; כְּלֵ֥ב · as that“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- Ezekiel 28:6כְּלֵ֥ב · as the heartTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
- Ezekiel 28:8בְּלֵ֥ב · in the heartThey will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
- Ezekiel 28:17לִבְּךָ֙ · Your heartYour heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.
- Ezekiel 32:9לֵ֖ב · the hearts‘I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, in countries you do not know.
- Ezekiel 33:31לִבָּ֥ם · their heartsSo My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 36:26 (3×)לֵ֣ב · heart; לֵ֤ב · your heart; לֵ֥ב · a heartI will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Ezekiel 40:4לִבְּךָ֗“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
- Ezekiel 44:5 (2×)לִבְּךָ֩; לִבְּךָ֙The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
- Ezekiel 44:7לֵב֙ · in both heartIn addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
- Ezekiel 44:9לֵב֙ · in heartThis is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
- Daniel 1:8לִבּ֔וֹ · his mindBut Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
- Daniel 10:12לִבְּךָ֛“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
- Hosea 2:14לִבָּֽהּ׃ · tenderly“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
- Hosea 4:11לֵֽב׃ · understanding…to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
- Hosea 7:6לִבָּ֖ם · their heartFor they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- Hosea 7:11לֵ֑בSo Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
- Hosea 7:14בְּלִבָּ֔ם · from their heartsThey do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- Hosea 10:2לִבָּ֖ם · Their heartsTheir hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
- Hosea 11:8לִבִּ֔י · My heartHow could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
- Hosea 13:6לִבָּ֑ם · their heartsWhen they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
- Hosea 13:8לִבָּ֑םLike a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.
- Amos 2:16לִבּ֖וֹ · menEven the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.
- Obadiah 1:3 (2×)לִבְּךָ֙ · of your heart; בְּלִבּ֔וֹ · in your heartThe pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Nahum 2:10וְלֵ֨ב · HeartsShe is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
- Zephaniah 3:14לֵ֔ב · your heartSing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
- Zechariah 7:12וְלִבָּ֞ם · their heartsThey made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
- Zechariah 10:7 (2×)לִבָּ֖ם · and their hearts; לִבָּ֖ם · their heartsEphraim will be like a mighty man, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
- Zechariah 12:5בְּלִבָּ֑ם · in their heartsThen the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts: ‘The people of Jerusalem are my strength, for the LORD of Hosts is their God.’
- Malachi 2:2 (2×)לֵ֜ב · heart; לֵֽב׃ · heartIf you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
- Malachi 4:6 (2×)לֵב־ · the hearts; וְלֵ֥ב · and the heartsAnd he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”