לָבַב
lâbab · H3823 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to get sense, to gain understanding
Literally: to get heart; hence: process by which humans learn to think for themselves as opposed to being easily swayed by what others say or do
ExamplesJob 11:12 “An idiot will become intelligent When a wild donkey is born a human.
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Causative process by which humans inspire feelings of affection in someone else (to capture (someone's) heart)
ExamplesSong of Solomon 4:9 “You have enchanted my heart, my sister, my bride; You have enchanted my heart with a single glance of your eyes, With a single strand of your necklace.
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to prepare cakes, to prepare dumplings
Causative action by which someone prepares heart-shaped cakes or dumplings
Examples2 Samuel 13:6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill; when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please have my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of pastries in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house, and he was lying in bed. And she took dough, kneaded it, made pastries in his sight, and baked the pastries.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- נִיme 2
- לָבִיבָה(heart-shaped) bread 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for+ עַיִןeye, sight 2
- בin/on/with+ אֶחָדone 1
- בin/on/with+ עָנָקnecklace 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Think002004002013
- This word is used of gaining understanding or becoming intelligent, as Job 11:12's "an idiot will become intelligent," so it belongs among words for thinking.
- Love002001002018
- The word describes being captivated or enchanted at heart, as in Song of Solomon 4:9's "you have enchanted my heart... with a single glance," a romantic captivation.
- Exist002002002005
- The word's sense "make cakes" (2 Samuel 13:6, 8) describes bringing food into being through preparation, connecting the word with the coming-into-existence of a made thing.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3823. labab I. [לבב] verb denominative Niph`al Imperfect יִלָּבֵב get a mind; יִוָּלֵד…
I. [לבב] verb denominative Niph`al Imperfect יִלָּבֵב get a mind; יִוָּלֵד אָדָם מֶּרֶא וְעַיִר יִלָּבֵב נָבוּב וְאִישׁ shall an empty man get a mind or a wild ass's colt be born a man (?) Job 11:12.
Pi`el encourage; Perfect מֵעֵינַיִךְ בְּאַחַד֯ לִבַּבְתִּנִי . . . . לִבַּבִתִּנִי Son 4:9 (twice in verse) thou hast encouraged me, thou hast encouraged me with one of thine eyes Ew Gi Gr RV m (AV RV Ges Hi De Öttli (compare Son 5:6) ravished my heart, — Pi`el priv. Ges§ 52h).
II. [לבב] verb denominative Pi`el make cakes. Imperfect תְּלַבֵּב 2Sa 13:6, 2Sa 13:8.
לְבַד alone see בַּד below בדד above
[לַבָּה], לַבַּת Exo 3:2 see לֶהָבָה below להב.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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