לִבָּה
libbâh · H3826 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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heart, mind
Literally: heart; hence: the seat of knowledge, human reasoning, planning, intelligence, skill, affection and hatred, desire and satisfaction, humility and pride, courage and fear, joy and grief
ExamplesEzekiel 16:30 “How feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord GOD, “while you do all these things, the action of a bold prostitute!
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָמַלto languish 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh · H5315 · throat, neck, gullet
- While נֶפֶשׁ emphasizes the living self or vital principle, it overlaps with לִבָּה in contexts referring to inner desire, emotion, and seat of volition—both can denote the inner person as the locus of thought and feeling.
In the other Testament 1 word
- καρδία kardía · G2588 · heart, inner self, mind
- The standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew heart terminology in the LXX, referring to the inner person, seat of thought, will, and emotion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Think002004002013
- This word's sole occurrence (Song of Solomon 8:6) denotes the heart, the seat of feeling and thought, so it belongs among words for thinking.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3826. libbah [לִבָּה] suffix לִבָּתֵךְ Eze 16:30 should be corrected to לִבְרִיתֵךְ (see…
[לִבָּה] suffix לִבָּתֵךְ Eze 16:30 should be corrected to לִבְרִיתֵךְ (see Co). > older view, as feminine of לֵבּ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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