לֵבָב lêbâb

Meaning

the heart (as the most interior organ);

In the King James Version: [phrase] bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-) heart(-ed), midst, mind, [idiom] unawares, understanding.

Derivation: from H3823 (לָבַב); used also like H3820 (לֵב)

Where it is used

• 2 Chronicles 19:3 However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God.”
• 2 Chronicles 19:9 He commanded them, saying, “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 20:33 The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
• 2 Chronicles 22:9 Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.
• 2 Chronicles 25:2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
• 2 Chronicles 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.
• 2 Chronicles 29:34 However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had consecrated themselves. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.
• 2 Chronicles 30:19 who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
• 2 Chronicles 31:21 He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
• 2 Chronicles 32:6 Hezekiah appointed military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city gate. Then he encouraged them, saying,
• 2 Chronicles 32:31 And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
• 2 Chronicles 34:27 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 34:31 So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
• 2 Chronicles 36:13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
• Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
• Nehemiah 9:8 You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
• Job 1:5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
• Job 9:4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
• Job 10:13 Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
• Job 12:3 But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
• Job 17:11 My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
• Job 22:22 Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
• Job 27:6 I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
• Job 34:10 Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
• Job 34:34 Men of understanding will declare to me, and the wise men who hear me will say:
• Psalms 4:4 Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
• Psalms 13:2 How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
• Psalms 15:2 He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
• Psalms 20:4 May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
• Psalms 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
• Psalms 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
• Psalms 25:17 The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.
• Psalms 28:3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
• Psalms 31:24 Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.
• Psalms 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
• Psalms 69:32 The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
• Psalms 73:1 A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
• Psalms 73:7 From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
• Psalms 73:13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
• Psalms 73:21 When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
• Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
• Psalms 77:6 At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
• Psalms 78:18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
• Psalms 78:72 So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
• Psalms 84:5 Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
• Psalms 86:11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
• Psalms 86:12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.
• Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
• Psalms 95:8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
• Psalms 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
• Psalms 101:2 I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
• Psalms 101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
• Psalms 101:5 Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• Psalms 104:15 wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
• Psalms 109:16 For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
• Psalms 111:1 Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.
• Psalms 119:7 I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.
• Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
• Proverbs 4:21 Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
• Proverbs 6:25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.