Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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Revelation 18:7
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
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לֵב
lêb · labe
486 times translated as this KJV form577 total Strong's occurrences
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Strong's KJV usage: care for, comfortably, consent, × considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart(-ed), × heed, × I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), × regard(-ed), × themselves, × unawares, understanding, × well, willingly, wisdom.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 6:5Strong's last: Malachi 4:6
Open full H3820 profile →לֵבָב
lêbâb · lay-bawb'
208 times translated as this KJV form243 total Strong's occurrences
the heart (as the most interior organ);
Strong's KJV usage: bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-) heart(-ed), midst, mind, × unawares, understanding.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 20:5Strong's last: Zechariah 7:10
Open full H3824 profile →καρδία
kardía · kar-dee'-ah
101 times translated as this KJV form171 total Strong's occurrences
the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle
Strong's KJV usage: :--(+ broken-)heart(-ed).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:8Strong's last: Revelation 18:7
Open full G2588 profile →נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh · neh'-fesh
12 times translated as this KJV form738 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Strong's KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 23:9Strong's last: Hosea 4:8
Open full H5315 profile →לְבַב
lᵉbab · leb-ab'
7 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: heart.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:30Strong's last: Daniel 7:4
Open full H3825 profile →σκληροκαρδία
sklērokardía · sklay-rok-ar-dee'-ah
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
hard-heartedness, i.e. (specially), destitution of (spiritual) perception
Strong's KJV usage: :--hardness of heart.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 10:5Strong's last: Mark 16:14
Open full G4641 profile →לָבַב
lâbab · law-bab'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be enclosed (as if with fat); by implication (as denominative from 3824); to unheart; i.e. (in a good sense) transport (with love), or (in a bad sense) stultify; to make cakes
Strong's KJV usage: make cakes, ravish, be wise.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 4:9Strong's last: Song of Solomon 4:9
Open full H3823 profile →לִבָּה
libbâh · lib-baw'
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
the heart
Strong's KJV usage: heart.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 24:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:30
Open full H3826 profile →ψυχή
psychḗ · psoo-khay'
1 times translated as this KJV form112 total Strong's occurrences
breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew H5315, H7307 and H2416)
Strong's KJV usage: :--heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.
Strong's first: Ephesians 6:6Strong's last: Ephesians 6:6
Open full G5590 profile →בָּל
bâl · bawl
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, anxiety, i.e. (by implication) the heart (as its seat)
Strong's KJV usage: heart.
Strong's first: Daniel 6:14Strong's last: Daniel 6:14
Open full H1079 profile →לֵב
lêb · labe
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: heart.
Strong's first: Daniel 7:28Strong's last: Daniel 7:28
Open full H3821 profile →מֵעֶה
mêʻeh · may-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: belly, bowels, × heart, womb.
Strong's first: Psalms 40:8Strong's last: Psalms 40:8
Open full H4578 profile →קֶרֶב
qereb · keh'-reb
1 times translated as this KJV form225 total Strong's occurrences
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
Strong's KJV usage: × among, × before, bowels, × unto charge, eat (up), × heart, × him, × in, inward (× -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, out of, purtenance, × therein, × through, × within self.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 9:8Strong's last: Jeremiah 9:8
Open full H7130 profile →שֶׂכְוִי
sekvîy · sek-vee'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
observant, i.e. (concretely) the mind
Strong's KJV usage: heart.
Strong's first: Job 38:36Strong's last: Job 38:36
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H3824
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
H3820
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
H3820
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
H3824
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
H3824
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
H3824
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
H3824
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
H3824
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
H3824
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
H3824
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
H3824
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
H3824
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
H3824
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
H3824
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
H3824
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
H3824
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
H3824
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
H3824
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
H3824
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
H3824
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
H3824
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
H3824
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
H3824
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
H3824
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
H3824
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
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heart
HEART, noun [Latin cor, cordis, and allied to Eng.core, or named from motion, pulsation.]
1. A muscular viscus, which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in the thorax. From this organ all the arteries arise, and in it all the veins terminate. By its alternate dilatation and contraction, the blood is received from the veins, and returned through the arteries, by which means the circulation is carried on and life preserved.
2. The inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; as the heart of a country, kingdom or empire; the heart of a town; the heart of a tree.
3. The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.
4. The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, pleasure etc.
The heart is deceitful above all things. Every imagination of the thoughts of the heart is evil continually. We read of an honest and good heart and an evil heart of unbelief, a willing heart a heavy heart sorrow of heart a hard heart a proud heart a pure heart The heart faints in adversity, or under discouragement, that is, courage fails; the heart is deceived, enlarged, reproved, lifted up, fixed, established, moved, etc.
5. By a metonymy, heart is used for an affection or passion, and particularly for love.
The king's heart was towards Absalom. 2 Samuel 14:1.
6. The seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart
We read of men wise in heart and slow of heart
7. The seat of the will; hence, secret purposes, intentions or designs. There are many devices in a man's heart The heart of kings is unsearchable. The Lord tries and searches the heart David had it in his heart to build a house of rest for the ark.
Sometimes heart is used for the will, or determined purpose.
The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 8:5.
8. Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindess.
Cheerly, my hearts.
9. Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to give heart; to recover heart
10. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.
Michal saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart 2 Samuel 6:16.
11. Disposition of mind.
He had a heart to do well.
12. Secret meaning; real intention.
And then show you the heart of my message.
13. Conscience, or sense of good or ill.
Every man's heart and conscience--doth either like or disallow it.
14. Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility. Keep the land in heart
That the spent earth may gather heart again.
15. The utmost degree.
This gay charm--hath beguiled me
To the very heart of loss.
To get or learn by heart to commit to memory; to learn so perfectly as to be able to repeat without a copy.
To take to heart to be much affected; also, to be zealous, ardent or solicitous about a thing; to have concern.
To lay to heart is used nearly in the sense of the foregoing.
To set the heart on, to fix the desires on; to be very desirous of obtaining or keeping; to be very fond of.
To set the heart at rest, to make one's self quiet; to be tranquil or easy in mind.
To find in the heart to be willing or disposed.
I find it in my heart to ask your pardon.
For my heart for tenderness or affection.
I could not for my heart refuse his request.
Or, this phrase may signify, for my life; if my life was at stake.
I could not get him for my heart to do it.
To speak to one's heart in Scripture, to speak kindly to; to comfort; to encourage.
To have in the heart to purpose; to have design or intention.
A hard heart cruelty; want of sensibility.
HE'ART, verb intransitive To encourage. [Not much used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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