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le.vav H3824

לֵבָב (le.vav) means “heart” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

לֵבָב Hebrew · H3824 252 tagged occurrences in 230 verses

Pronunciation guide: lay-bawb' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3824

לֵבָב · le.vav · heart

1) inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, 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 Aramaic equivalent: le.vav (לְבַב "heart" H3825)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H3823 (לָבַב); used also like H3820 (לֵב) the heart (as the most interior organ);

KJV glosses: [phrase] bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-) heart(-ed), midst, mind, [idiom] unawares, understanding.

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How translators render H3824

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
your heart 33
heart 17
his heart 15
in your heart 15
my heart 10
your hearts 10
of heart 7
the heart 5
in their hearts 4
of my heart 4
the hearts 4
their heart 4
their hearts 4
in heart 3
in your hearts 3
our hearts 3
to heart 3
whose hearts 3
a heart 2
and his heart 2
and the hearts 2
and your heart 2
hearts 2
her mind 2
let your heart 2
mind 2
of understanding 2
to herself 2
wholeheartedly 2
with their hearts 2
a mind 1
after his own heart 1
and his courage 1
and in his own mind 1
and in your heart 1
and my heart 1
and my hearts 1
and with wholehearted 1
as the heart 1
brokenhearted 1
but his heart 1
but your heart 1
conscience 1
consider 1
determined 1
from his heart 1
from your heart 1
heart and soul 1
his own 1
his plan 1
in a rage 1
in my heart 1
into the heart 1
into their hearts 1
is in my heart 1
is in their hearts 1
is your heart 1
it is in his heart 1
let your hearts 1
like his own 1
may your hearts 1
my conscience 1
of ahaz 1
of mind 1
of the hearts 1
of their hearts 1
of your hearts 1
on himself 1
or disheartened 1
so let your heart 1
so that the hearts 1
so the hearts 1
that was in hezekiahs heart 1
that your heart 1
the desires of your heart 1
the mind 1
their breasts 1
their minds 1
their senses 1
them 1
then his heart 1
then your heart 1
they willfully 1
to themselves 1
to yours 1
was in my heart 1
was in your heart 1
with a heart 1
your hearts therefore 1
your mind 1
your own heart 1
yourself 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
heart 18
in thine heart 18
his heart 7
of heart 7
thine heart 6
your heart 6
in his heart 5
in mine heart 5
my heart 5
the heart 5
with all his heart 5
and his heart 4
and the heart 4
in their heart 4
of my heart 4
of thine heart 4
whose heart 4
with all thine heart 4
consider 3
hearts 3
in heart 3
in their hearts 3
with all their heart 3
with all your heart 3
your hearts 3
and thine heart 2
as the heart 2
because thine heart 2
him with all your heart 2
in your heart 2
of mine heart 2
of understanding 2
of your heart 2
our heart 2
our hearts 2
the hearts 2
their hearts 2
with him of all that was in her heart 2
after his own heart 1
all hearts 1
and fainthearted 1
and his courage 1
and in thy heart 1
and it was in the heart 1
and lest your heart 1
and made his heart 1
and my heart 1
and now i pray you consider 1
and tenderhearted 1
and the whole heart 1
and your heart 1
as for me it was in my mind 1
as my heart 1
as well as his heart 1
because his heart 1
because this was in thine heart 1
but if thine heart 1
comfortably 1
for me with all your heart 1
forasmuch as it was in thine heart 1
from thy heart 1
here that thine heart 1
him and his heart 1
him and thine heart 1
him with all thy heart 1
him your heart 1
himself in his heart 1
i have understanding 1
in all your hearts 1
in her heart 1
in my heart 1
in that it was in thine heart 1
in the midst 1
in thee in whose heart 1
in your hearts 1
into their hearts 1
into thy mind 1
into your mind 1
it was in thine heart 1
let not your hearts 1
let your heart 1
me mine heart 1
me with all his heart 1
nevertheless the heart 1
not in their hearts 1
not neither be fainthearted 1
not so neither doth his heart 1
not thou in thine heart 1
not your heart 1
now it was in the heart 1
of his heart 1
of his own heart 1
of the heart 1
of thy heart 1
on the heart 1
shall be in thine heart 1
than heart 1
that his heart 1
that it was in thine heart 1
that their heart 1
thee according to thine own heart 1
their heart 1
them with all thine heart 1
then thine heart 1
they bethink 1
they in their heart 1
thou not and why is thy heart 1
thus my heart 1
to himself that his heart 1
to me with all your heart 1
to mind 1
to yourselves that your heart 1
unawares 1
unto thee with all their heart 1
upon their breasts 1
was laid consider 1
wherefore the hearts 1
which thine heart 1
whole heart 1
with all my heart 1
with all thy heart 1
with all your hearts 1
with mine own heart 1
with thee according to thy heart 1
with their heart 1
with thy heart 1
with your own heart 1
your own heart 1

Verses containing H3824

Page 2 of 5. 230 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Deuteronomy 32:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

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  2. Joshua 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.

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  3. Joshua 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

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  4. Joshua 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

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  5. Joshua 14:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.

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  6. Joshua 22:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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  7. Joshua 23:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

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  8. Joshua 24:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

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  9. Judges 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On the fifth day, he got up early in the morning to depart, but the girl’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

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  10. Judges 19:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”

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  11. 1 Samuel 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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  12. 1 Samuel 2:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

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  13. 1 Samuel 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people out so they could go on their way?

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  14. 1 Samuel 7:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

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  15. 1 Samuel 9:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I am the seer,” Samuel replied. “Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today. And when I send you off in the morning, I will tell you all that is in your heart.

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  16. 1 Samuel 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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  17. 1 Samuel 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.

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  18. 1 Samuel 13:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought a man after His own heart and appointed him ruler over His people, because you have not kept the command of the LORD.”

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  19. 1 Samuel 14:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    His armor-bearer replied, “Do all that is in your heart. Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”

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  20. 1 Samuel 16:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

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  21. 1 Samuel 17:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

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  22. 1 Samuel 21:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

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    Source alternate reference: 21.13

  23. 2 Samuel 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”

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  24. 2 Samuel 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”

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    Source alternate reference: 19.15

  25. 1 Kings 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

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  26. 1 Kings 2:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.

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  27. 1 Kings 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

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  28. 1 Kings 8:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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  29. 1 Kings 8:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

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  30. 1 Kings 8:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

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  31. 1 Kings 8:39 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—

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  32. 1 Kings 8:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

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  33. 1 Kings 8:58 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

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  34. 1 Kings 8:61 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

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  35. 1 Kings 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

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  36. 1 Kings 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.

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  37. 1 Kings 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

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  38. 1 Kings 11:4 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

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  39. 1 Kings 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

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  40. 1 Kings 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

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  41. 1 Kings 15:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

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  42. 1 Kings 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

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  43. 2 Kings 10:15 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,

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  44. 2 Kings 10:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”

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  45. 2 Kings 10:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

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  46. 2 Kings 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  47. 2 Kings 22:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

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  48. 2 Kings 23:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.

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  49. 1 Chronicles 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”

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    Source alternate reference: 12.18

  50. 1 Chronicles 12:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king.

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    Source alternate reference: 12.39

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