לֵבָב

le.vav

Hebrew H3824 Noun, masculine 252 occurrences in 230 verses
לֵבָב heart

1. inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding

a. inner part, midst

1. midst (of things)

2. heart (of man)

3. soul, heart (of man)

4. mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory

5. inclination, resolution, determination (of will)

6. conscience

7. heart (of moral character)

8. as seat of appetites

9. as seat of emotions and passions 1a10) as seat of courage

Aramaic equivalent: le.vav (לְבַב "heart" H3825)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 230 verses

  1. Deuteronomy 32:46 לְבַבְכֶ֔ם

    he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

  2. Joshua 2:11 לְבָבֵ֔נוּ

    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.

  3. Joshua 5:1 לְבָבָ֗ם

    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.

  4. Joshua 7:5 לְבַב־

    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.

  5. Joshua 14:7 לְבָבִֽי׃

    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.

  6. Joshua 22:5 לְבַבְכֶ֖ם

    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.”

  7. Joshua 23:14 לְבַבְכֶ֣ם

    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.

  8. Joshua 24:23 לְבַבְכֶ֔ם

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

  9. Judges 19:8 לְבָ֣בְךָ֔

    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.

  10. Judges 19:9 לְבָבֶ֔ךָ

    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.”

  11. 1 Samuel 1:8 לְבָבֵ֑ךְ

    “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?”

  12. 1 Samuel 2:35 בִּלְבָבִ֥י

    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.

  13. 1 Samuel 6:6 לְבַבְכֶ֔ם

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

  14. 1 Samuel 7:3 לְבַבְכֶ֗םלְבַבְכֶ֤ם

    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of 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.”

  15. 1 Samuel 9:19 בִּֽלְבָבְךָ֖

    “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.

  16. 1 Samuel 12:20 לְבַבְכֶֽם׃

    “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.

  17. 1 Samuel 12:24 לְבַבְכֶ֑ם

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

  18. 1 Samuel 13:14 כִּלְבָב֗וֹ

    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.”

  19. 1 Samuel 14:7 בִּלְבָבֶ֑ךָכִּלְבָבֶֽךָ׃ס

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

  20. 1 Samuel 16:7 לַלֵּבָֽב׃

    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.”

  21. 1 Samuel 17:28 לְבָבֶ֔ךָ

    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!”

  22. 1 Samuel 21:12 בִּלְבָב֑וֹ

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

  23. 2 Samuel 7:3 בִּֽלְבָבְךָ֖

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

  24. 2 Samuel 19:14 לְבַ֥ב

    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.”

  25. 1 Kings 2:4 לְבָבָ֖ם

    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.’

  26. 1 Kings 2:44 לְבָ֣בְךָ֔

    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.

  27. 1 Kings 3:6 לֵבָ֖ב

    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.

  28. 1 Kings 8:17 לְבַ֖ב

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

  29. 1 Kings 8:18 לְבָ֣בְךָ֔לְבָבֶֽךָ׃

    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.

  30. 1 Kings 8:38 לְבָב֔וֹ

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

  31. 1 Kings 8:39 לְבָב֑וֹלְבַ֖ב

    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—

  32. 1 Kings 8:48 לְבָבָם֙

    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,

  33. 1 Kings 8:58 לְבָבֵ֖נוּ

    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.

  34. 1 Kings 8:61 לְבַבְכֶם֙

    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.”

  35. 1 Kings 9:4 לֵבָ֣ב

    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,

  36. 1 Kings 10:2 לְבָבָֽהּ׃

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

  37. 1 Kings 11:2 לְבַבְכֶ֔ם

    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.

  38. 1 Kings 11:4 לְבָב֔וֹלְבָב֤וֹכִּלְבַ֖ב

    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.

  39. 1 Kings 11:9 לְבָב֗וֹ

    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.

  40. 1 Kings 14:8 לְבָב֔וֹ

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

  41. 1 Kings 15:3 לְבָב֤וֹכִּלְבַ֖ב

    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.

  42. 1 Kings 15:14 לְבַב־

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

  43. 2 Kings 10:15 לְבָבְךָ֣לְבָבִי֙לְבָבֶ֔ךָ

    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,

  44. 2 Kings 10:30 בִּלְבָבִ֔י

    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.”

  45. 2 Kings 10:31 לְבָב֑וֹ

    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.

  46. 2 Kings 20:3 וּבְלֵבָ֣ב

    “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

  47. 2 Kings 22:19 לְבָ֨בְךָ֜

    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.

  48. 2 Kings 23:25 לְבָב֤וֹ

    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.

  49. 1 Chronicles 12:17 לֵבָ֖ב

    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.”

  50. 1 Chronicles 12:38 בְּלֵבָ֤ב

    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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