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
Occurrences
595 total
- 2 Chronicles 7:11לֵ֣ב · heartWhen Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
- 2 Chronicles 7:16וְלִבִּ֛י · and My heartFor I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- 2 Chronicles 9:23בְּלִבּֽוֹ׃ · in his heartAll the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
- 2 Chronicles 12:14לִבּ֔וֹ · his heartAnd Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 17:6לִבּ֖וֹ · And his heartAnd his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 24:4לֵ֣ב · his heartSome time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 25:19לִבְּךָ֖ · and your heartYou have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
- 2 Chronicles 26:16לִבּוֹ֙But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
- 2 Chronicles 29:31לֵ֖ב · whose heartsThen Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
- 2 Chronicles 30:12לֵ֣ב · heartMoreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.
- And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 32:25לִבּ֑וֹ · his heartBut because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 32:26לִבּ֔וֹ · of his heartThen Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
- Ezra 6:22לֵ֤ב · the heartFor seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.
- Ezra 7:27בְּלֵ֣ב · into the heartBlessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
- Nehemiah 2:2לֵ֑ב · of the heart…so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear
- Nehemiah 2:12לִבִּ֔י · my heartI set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
- Nehemiah 4:6לֵ֦ב · a mindSo we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
- Nehemiah 5:7לִבִּ֜י · and after serious…and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
- Nehemiah 6:8מִֽלִּבְּךָ֖ · in your own mindThen I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”
- Nehemiah 7:5לִבִּ֔י · my heartThen my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
- Esther 1:10לֵב־ · heartOn the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—
- Esther 5:9לֵ֑ב · of heartThat day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.
- Esther 6:6בְּלִבּ֔וֹ · to himselfHaman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
- Esther 7:5לִבּ֖וֹThen King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
- Job 1:8לִבְּךָ֖Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
- Job 2:3לִבְּךָ֮Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
- Job 7:17לִבֶּֽךָ׃ · Your heartWhat is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
- Job 8:10וּ֝מִלִּבָּ֗ם · from their understandingWill they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
- Job 11:13לִבֶּ֑ךָ · your heartAs for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
- Job 12:24לֵ֭ב · of reasonHe deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Job 15:12לִבֶּ֑ךָ · has your heartWhy has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
- Job 17:4לִ֭בָּם · their mindsYou have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
- Job 23:16לִבִּ֑י · has made my heartGod has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
- Job 29:13וְלֵ֖ב · heartThe dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
- Job 31:7לִבִּ֑י · if my heartIf my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
- Job 31:9לִ֭בִּי · my heartIf my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
- Job 31:27לִבִּ֑י · so that my heart…so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
- Job 33:3לִבִּ֥י · heartMy words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
- Job 34:14לִבּ֑וֹ · His heartIf He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
- Job 36:5לֵֽב׃ · of understandingIndeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
- Job 36:13לֵ֭ב · in heartThe godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.
- Job 37:1לִבִּ֑י · my heart“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
- Job 37:24לֵֽב׃פ · in heartTherefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
- Job 41:24לִ֭בּוֹ · His chestHis chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
- Psalm 4:7בְלִבִּ֑י · my heartYou have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
- Psalm 7:10לֵֽב׃ · in heartMy shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
- Psalm 9:1לִבִּ֑י · my heartFor the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.
- Psalm 10:6בְּ֭לִבּוֹ · to himselfHe says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
- Psalm 10:11בְּ֭לִבּוֹ · to himselfHe says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”