לֵב

נֶפֶשׁ nephesh · H5315 · throat, neck, gullet

While נֶפֶשׁ primarily denotes soul/life/person, it overlaps semantically with לֵב in contexts referring to the inner life, emotions, desires, and will of a person, and the two terms are sometimes used in poetic parallelism

רוּחַ rûwach · H7307 · spirit

רוּחַ (spirit) overlaps with לֵב in contexts referring to the inner disposition, attitude, or emotional/volitional center of a person, though רוּחַ emphasizes the animating principle or attitude while לֵב emphasizes the seat of thought and emotion

καρδία kardía · G2588 · heart, inner self, mind

Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew לֵב across the Septuagint and New Testament, referring to the physical heart, the seat of emotions, will, intellect, and the inner person

People001001003

This People code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with the Hebrew form (לֵב (lêb, H3820)), whose sense classifies the “heart” as a body part representing a whole person; this word's own occurrence names only the faculty of thought, never a person as such.

Think002004002013

Daniel 7:28 recounts that “my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face became pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”

Wise002001002029

This Wise code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “sense; understanding” sense; this word's own occurrence describes troubling thoughts, never wisdom or understanding as such.

Spatial Referents003002005

This Spatial Referents code is likewise inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “middle” sense (as in the heart of the sea); this word's own occurrence carries no spatial sense.

Names of Groups003001006

This Names of Groups code is inherited from the same shared lemma-cluster grouping's unrelated cryptogram place-name sense “Leb-Kamai” (a code name for Chaldea); this word's own occurrence names no place or people.

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.