לֵב (lev) means “heart” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: labe Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
לֵב · lev · heart
1) inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding 1a) inner part, midst 1a1) midst (of things) 1a2) heart (of man) 1a3) soul, heart (of man) 1a4) mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory 1a5) inclination, resolution, determination (of will) 1a6) conscience 1a7) heart (of moral character) 1a8) as seat of appetites 1a9) as seat of emotions and passions 1a10) as seat of courage
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לֵב · lev · Leb
§ Leb- = "heart of" (probably a cryptic name for Babylon by Atbash)
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a form of H3824 (לֵבָב); the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV glosses: [phrase] care for, comfortably, consent, [idiom] considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart(-ed), [idiom] heed, [idiom] I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), [idiom] regard(-ed), [idiom] themselves, [idiom] unawares, understanding, [idiom] well, willingly, wisdom.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| heart | 74 |
| my heart | 53 |
| his heart | 24 |
| their hearts | 21 |
| your heart | 19 |
| the heart | 17 |
| in heart | 16 |
| hearts | 12 |
| in his heart | 11 |
| the hearts | 11 |
| judgment | 10 |
| my mind | 9 |
| in the heart | 7 |
| of heart | 7 |
| of his heart | 7 |
| mind | 6 |
| and my heart | 5 |
| of your heart | 5 |
| our hearts | 5 |
| their heart | 5 |
| to himself | 5 |
| a heart | 4 |
| in my heart | 4 |
| in their hearts | 4 |
| let your heart | 4 |
| of the heart | 4 |
| to myself | 4 |
| and mind | 3 |
| but the heart | 3 |
| his mind | 3 |
| in your heart | 3 |
| of my heart | 3 |
| to heart | 3 |
| whose heart | 3 |
| a mind | 2 |
| and according to your own heart | 2 |
| and his heart | 2 |
| and let your heart | 2 |
| and the hearts | 2 |
| and your heart | 2 |
| but my heart | 2 |
| conscience | 2 |
| from your heart | 2 |
| her heart | 2 |
| in her heart | 2 |
| in your hearts | 2 |
| into the heart | 2 |
| is in his heart | 2 |
| kindly | 2 |
| let the hearts | 2 |
| like the heart | 2 |
| my own heart | 2 |
| of their hearts | 2 |
| of their own minds | 2 |
| out of their own imagination | 2 |
| to the heart | 2 |
| understanding | 2 |
| vvv | 2 |
| whose hearts | 2 |
| you | 2 |
| your mind | 2 |
| a calebite | 1 |
| and a double heart | 1 |
| and after serious | 1 |
| and closed their minds | 1 |
| and heart | 1 |
| and my mind | 1 |
| and the heart | 1 |
| and the lord | 1 |
| and their hearts | 1 |
| and understanding | 1 |
| and with wholehearted | 1 |
| and your mind | 1 |
| anything of my own accord | 1 |
| are in the heart | 1 |
| as that | 1 |
| as the heart | 1 |
| attention | 1 |
| but his heart | 1 |
| but let your heart | 1 |
| but their hearts | 1 |
| comfort to | 1 |
| fill his heart | 1 |
| for the heart | 1 |
| from the heart | 1 |
| from their hearts | 1 |
| from their own minds | 1 |
| from their understanding | 1 |
| has made my heart | 1 |
| has your heart | 1 |
| he | 1 |
| himself | 1 |
| his chest | 1 |
| his opinions | 1 |
| his sense | 1 |
| i have kept my heart | 1 |
| if my heart | 1 |
| in both heart | 1 |
| in himself | 1 |
| in my chest | 1 |
| in the hearts | 1 |
| in the hearts of men | 1 |
| in your own mind | 1 |
| intention | 1 |
| into the depths | 1 |
| is in the hearts | 1 |
| it | 1 |
| made the hearts | 1 |
| make the hearts | 1 |
| makes the heart | 1 |
| may my heart | 1 |
| men | 1 |
| my own doing | 1 |
| my spirit | 1 |
| myself | 1 |
| of conscience | 1 |
| of his hearts | 1 |
| of his own heart | 1 |
| of judgment | 1 |
| of leb-kamai | 1 |
| of my own heart | 1 |
| of reason | 1 |
| of the hearts | 1 |
| of their own hearts | 1 |
| of understanding | 1 |
| on his own | 1 |
| out of mind | 1 |
| over their hearts | 1 |
| people | 1 |
| so that my heart | 1 |
| so the hearts | 1 |
| spirits | 1 |
| tenderly | 1 |
| the courage | 1 |
| the hearts of the people | 1 |
| their courage | 1 |
| their minds | 1 |
| their own hearts | 1 |
| their senses | 1 |
| theirs | 1 |
| them | 1 |
| themselves | 1 |
| therefore my heart | 1 |
| those whose hearts | 1 |
| through the heart | 1 |
| to my heart | 1 |
| turned his heart | 1 |
| was in my heart | 1 |
| when your heart | 1 |
| whenever my heart | 1 |
| while their hearts | 1 |
| who with one purpose | 1 |
| wholeheartedly | 1 |
| will your courage | 1 |
| willingly | 1 |
| wisdom | 1 |
| with one mind | 1 |
| with the heart | 1 |
| yet his heart | 1 |
| your heart upon them | 1 |
| yourself | 1 |
| yourselves | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| heart | 78 |
| my heart | 29 |
| the heart | 27 |
| in his heart | 25 |
| his heart | 17 |
| thine heart | 17 |
| in heart | 16 |
| of heart | 14 |
| their heart | 12 |
| and the heart | 10 |
| of his heart | 10 |
| in the heart | 9 |
| mine heart | 9 |
| hearted | 7 |
| in mine heart | 7 |
| in the midst | 7 |
| of thine heart | 6 |
| and his heart | 5 |
| and my heart | 5 |
| in my heart | 5 |
| of my heart | 5 |
| of understanding | 5 |
| and mine heart | 4 |
| and thine heart | 4 |
| of their heart | 4 |
| the hearts | 4 |
| their hearts | 4 |
| to heart | 4 |
| understanding | 4 |
| well | 4 |
| whole heart | 4 |
| whose heart | 4 |
| and their heart | 3 |
| but the heart | 3 |
| comfortably | 3 |
| for their heart | 3 |
| in their heart | 3 |
| of the heart | 3 |
| of their own heart | 3 |
| of wisdom | 3 |
| therefore my heart | 3 |
| upon thine heart | 3 |
| with my whole heart | 3 |
| and let not thine heart | 2 |
| and let thine heart | 2 |
| as the heart | 2 |
| but my heart | 2 |
| friendly | 2 |
| her all his heart | 2 |
| him in her heart | 2 |
| in their hearts | 2 |
| in whose heart | 2 |
| into the midst | 2 |
| kindly | 2 |
| let not thine heart | 2 |
| let the heart | 2 |
| not my heart | 2 |
| of his own heart | 2 |
| of mine own mind | 2 |
| our heart | 2 |
| sake and according to thine own heart | 2 |
| them an heart | 2 |
| therefore the heart | 2 |
| to his heart | 2 |
| to mind | 2 |
| to thy heart | 2 |
| upon his heart | 2 |
| wisdom | 2 |
| you an heart | 2 |
| according to mine heart | 1 |
| after the heart | 1 |
| against me my heart | 1 |
| all the merryhearted | 1 |
| also my heart | 1 |
| also thine own heart | 1 |
| an heart | 1 |
| and every heart | 1 |
| and hardhearted | 1 |
| and he that regarded | 1 |
| and in the hearts | 1 |
| and it came to pass when their hearts | 1 |
| and jacobs heart | 1 |
| and let thy heart | 1 |
| and make my heart | 1 |
| and repent | 1 |
| and stiffhearted | 1 |
| and their hearts | 1 |
| and whose heart | 1 |
| and without understanding | 1 |
| as they were making their hearts | 1 |
| at his heart | 1 |
| be as the heart | 1 |
| because thine heart | 1 |
| but let thine heart | 1 |
| but that his heart | 1 |
| can thine heart | 1 |
| considered | 1 |
| courageous | 1 |
| every one whose heart | 1 |
| for his heart | 1 |
| for my heart | 1 |
| for our heart | 1 |
| for this our heart | 1 |
| from the heart | 1 |
| from thy heart | 1 |
| had a mind | 1 |
| hast thou considered | 1 |
| he to thee but his heart | 1 |
| hearted man | 1 |
| hearts | 1 |
| him his hearts | 1 |
| him with the whole heart | 1 |
| his wisdom | 1 |
| i have made my heart | 1 |
| i in my heart | 1 |
| i pray thee regard | 1 |
| if mine heart | 1 |
| if thine heart | 1 |
| in her heart | 1 |
| in his own heart | 1 |
| in their own heart | 1 |
| in thine heart | 1 |
| into his mind | 1 |
| into mind | 1 |
| into mine heart | 1 |
| into my mind | 1 |
| into their own heart | 1 |
| into thine heart | 1 |
| it in their hearts | 1 |
| it into my heart | 1 |
| it into my mind | 1 |
| it to his heart | 1 |
| let my heart | 1 |
| make the heart | 1 |
| maketh my heart | 1 |
| maketh the heart | 1 |
| me all his heart | 1 |
| me thine heart | 1 |
| no heart | 1 |
| no heed | 1 |
| not his heart | 1 |
| not mine heart | 1 |
| not neither did she regard | 1 |
| not of double | 1 |
| not their heart | 1 |
| not thy mind | 1 |
| not to heart | 1 |
| not your heart | 1 |
| of mine heart | 1 |
| of our heart | 1 |
| out of mind | 1 |
| out of their heart | 1 |
| out of their own heart | 1 |
| out of their own hearts | 1 |
| regard | 1 |
| shall be as the heart | 1 |
| shall the heart | 1 |
| so the heart | 1 |
| that his heart | 1 |
| that we may consider | 1 |
| the brokenhearted | 1 |
| the stouthearted | 1 |
| thee in the midst | 1 |
| thee when thine heart | 1 |
| thee with all their heart | 1 |
| thee with all their hearts | 1 |
| thee with my whole heart | 1 |
| them out of thine own heart | 1 |
| them through the heart | 1 |
| then shall the heart | 1 |
| therefore mine heart | 1 |
| they will not care | 1 |
| thy heart | 1 |
| to my mind | 1 |
| to thee with all their heart | 1 |
| unawares | 1 |
| unto all yea also the heart | 1 |
| unto him for his heart | 1 |
| unto me let thine heart | 1 |
| unto me with her whole heart | 1 |
| unto me with their heart | 1 |
| unto me with their whole heart | 1 |
| unto me ye stouthearted | 1 |
| unto the midst | 1 |
| unto thee when my heart | 1 |
| unto their own hearts | 1 |
| unto thine heart | 1 |
| was in mine heart | 1 |
| was minded | 1 |
| when the heart | 1 |
| whose hearts | 1 |
| why doth thine heart | 1 |
| will they care | 1 |
| willingly | 1 |
| with a double | 1 |
| with all the heart | 1 |
| with all thine heart | 1 |
| with his heart | 1 |
| with me made the heart | 1 |
| with mine own heart | 1 |
| with myself | 1 |
| with one consent | 1 |
| within me my heart | 1 |
| without heart | 1 |
| ye comfortably | 1 |
| ye have made the heart | 1 |
| ye well | 1 |
| yea his heart | 1 |
| yea in heart | 1 |
| yea my heart | 1 |
| your heart | 1 |
| your hearts | 1 |
Page 9 of 12. 551 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Read word by wordGo, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Read word by wordA wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
Read word by wordEven as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.
Read word by wordRejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
Read word by wordSo banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
Read word by wordCome out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
Read word by wordI sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Read word by wordSet me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
Read word by wordMake the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Read word by wordMy heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
Read word by wordThe new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Read word by wordTherefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
Read word by wordFor a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
Read word by wordYour mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
Read word by wordSay to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
Read word by wordsaying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Read word by word“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
Read word by word“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.
Read word by wordSo He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
Read word by wordThey do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
Read word by wordAnd no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
Read word by wordHe feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
Read word by wordRemember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
Read word by wordListen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:
Read word by wordYou said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
Read word by wordYou were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
Read word by wordListen 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordWhom 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?
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordrebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
Read word by wordThe 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,
Read word by wordFor the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
Read word by wordWhy, 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.
Read word by wordMy servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
Read word by wordFor behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordYet 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.
Read word by wordThen I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordAt 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.
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordWash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
Read word by word“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
Read word by wordMy 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.
Read word by word“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
Read word by wordBut these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
Read word by wordYet 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.
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