Hebrew
לֵב lev
“heart” · 595 times in the Old Testament
Through the Bible
- “heart” 381
- “mind” 29
- “judgment” 11
- “himself” 7
- “whose heart” 6
- other ways 161
- kardia, the Greek the New Testament uses for it 156
In the New Testament it continues as kardia: Acts 28:27 quotes Isaiah 6:10, and puts this word in Greek.
As a table, book by book
| Book | Times |
|---|---|
| Genesis | 13 |
| Exodus | 46 |
| Numbers | 4 |
| Deuteronomy | 4 |
| Joshua | 2 |
| Judges | 14 |
| Ruth | 2 |
| 1 Samuel | 16 |
| 2 Samuel | 18 |
| 1 Kings | 14 |
| 2 Kings | 6 |
| 1 Chronicles | 8 |
| 2 Chronicles | 16 |
| Ezra | 2 |
| Nehemiah | 6 |
| Esther | 4 |
| Job | 20 |
| Psalms | 100 |
| Proverbs | 93 |
| Ecclesiastes | 41 |
| Song of Songs | 3 |
| Isaiah | 31 |
| Jeremiah | 58 |
| Lamentations | 9 |
| Ezekiel | 41 |
| Daniel | 2 |
| Hosea | 9 |
| Amos | 1 |
| Obadiah | 2 |
| Nahum | 1 |
| Zephaniah | 1 |
| Zechariah | 4 |
| Malachi | 4 |
| Matthew | 16 |
| Mark | 11 |
| Luke | 22 |
| John | 7 |
| Acts | 20 |
| Romans | 15 |
| 1 Corinthians | 5 |
| 2 Corinthians | 11 |
| Galatians | 1 |
| Ephesians | 6 |
| Philippians | 2 |
| Colossians | 5 |
| 1 Thessalonians | 3 |
| 2 Thessalonians | 2 |
| 1 Timothy | 1 |
| 2 Timothy | 1 |
| Hebrews | 11 |
| James | 5 |
| 1 Peter | 3 |
| 2 Peter | 2 |
| 1 John | 4 |
| Revelation | 3 |
How the BSB translates it
Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
- heart 594
- Leb 1
With a pronoun joined
Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.
Where it occurs
Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.
“heart” 381
Genesis 7
- 6:5 …inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all…
- 6:6 …He was grieved in His heart
- 8:21 …aroma He said in His heart Never again will I…
- 8:21 …every inclination of his heart is evil from his…
- 24:45 …had finished praying in my heart there was Rebekah coming…
- 27:41 …him And Esau said in his heart The days of mourning…
- 42:28 …here in my sack Their hearts sank and trembling they…
Exodus 32
- 4:14 …he will be glad in his heart
- 4:21 …But I will harden his heart so that he will…
- 7:3 …I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and though I will…
- 7:13 …Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he…
- 7:14 …said to Moses Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding he refuses…
- 7:22 …magic arts So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he…
- 7:23 …take any of this to heart
- 8:15 …relief however he hardened his heart and would not listen…
- 8:19 …to Pharaoh But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he…
- 8:32 …But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well…
- 9:7 …had died But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he…
- 9:12 …the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not…
- 9:34 …sinned again and hardened his heart he and his officials…
- 9:35 …So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he…
- 10:1 …for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of…
- 10:1 …have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials that…
- 10:20 …the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not…
- 10:27 …the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he was unwilling…
- 11:10 …the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would…
- 14:4 …I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will…
- 14:8 …And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of…
- 14:17 …And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so…
- 15:8 …firm the depths congealed in the heart of the sea…
- 25:2 …from every man whose heart compels him…
- 28:29 …sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of…
- 28:30 …also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before…
- 28:30 …sons of Israel over his heart before the LORD…
- 35:21 …And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose…
- 35:22 …all who had willing hearts both men and women…
- 35:26 …the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the…
- 35:29 …of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a…
- 36:2 …had gifted everyone whose heart stirred him to come…
Deuteronomy 1
- 28:65 …give you a trembling heart failing eyes and a…
Joshua 1
- 11:20 …the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in…
Judges 7
- 5:9 My heart is with the princes…
- 9:3 …the leaders of Shechem their hearts were inclined to follow…
- 16:17 …her all that was in his heart My hair has never…
- 16:18 …her all that was in his heart she sent this message…
- 16:18 …me all that is in his heart Then the lords of…
- 19:5 …son in law Refresh your heart with a morsel of…
- 19:6 …agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry…
1 Samuel 7
- 1:13 …Hannah was praying in her heart and though her lips…
- 2:1 …that time Hannah prayed My heart rejoices in the LORD…
- 4:13 …road and watching because his heart trembled for the ark…
- 10:9 …Samuel God changed Saul’s heart and all the signs…
- 10:26 …men of valor whose hearts God had touched went…
- 17:32 …Saul Let no man’s heart fail on account of…
- 25:37 …him about these events and his heart failed within him and…
2 Samuel 10
- 6:16 …and she despised him in her heart
- 13:20 …not take this thing to heart So Tamar lived as…
- 13:28 …men Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine…
- 13:33 …do not take to heart the report that all…
- 14:1 …perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom…
- 15:6 …this way he stole the hearts of the men of…
- 15:13 …to David and reported The hearts of the men of…
- 17:10 …the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will…
- 17:10 …the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will…
- 19:19 …not take it to heart
1 Kings 9
- 3:9 …Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people…
- 3:12 …a wise and discerning heart so that there will…
- 8:23 …before You with all their hearts
- 8:66 …home joyful and glad in heart for all the good…
- 9:3 …there forever My eyes and My heart will be there for…
- 10:24 …that God had put in his heart
- 12:26 …Jeroboam said in his heart Now the kingdom might…
- 12:27 …the LORD at Jerusalem their hearts will return to their…
- 18:37 …that You have turned their hearts back again…
2 Kings 3
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
- 6:14 …before You with all their hearts
And 301 more, on the full page.
“mind” 29
Deuteronomy 1
- 29:4 …has not given you a mind to understand eyes to…
1 Chronicles 1
- 12:38 …Israelites were of one mind to make David king…
Nehemiah 1
- 4:6 …for the people had a mind to work…
Job 1
- 17:4 …You have closed their minds to understanding therefore You…
Psalms 1
- 26:2 …me examine my heart and mind
Proverbs 3
Ecclesiastes 8
- 1:13 …And I set my mind to seek and explore…
- 1:16 …who were over Jerusalem and my mind has observed a wealth…
- 1:17 …So I set my mind to know wisdom and…
- 2:3 …and to embrace folly my mind still guiding me with…
- 2:23 …sorrowful even at night his mind does not rest This…
- 7:25 …I directed my mind to understand to explore…
- 8:9 …I have seen applying my mind to every deed that…
- 8:16 …When I applied my mind to know wisdom and…
Isaiah 3
Jeremiah 8
- 3:16 …will never come to mind and no one will…
- 7:31 …did it even enter My mind
- 11:20 …who examines the heart and mind let me see Your…
- 19:5 …did it even enter My mind
- 20:12 …who sees the heart and mind let me see Your…
- 31:21 …signposts Keep the highway in mind the road you have…
- 32:35 …had it ever entered My mind that they should commit…
- 44:21 …and bring this to mind
Lamentations 1
- 3:21 …I call this to mind and therefore I have…
Daniel 1
- 1:8 …But Daniel made up his mind that he would not…
“judgment” 11
Proverbs 11
- 6:32 …who commits adultery lacks judgment whoever does so destroys…
- 7:7 …a young man lacking judgment
- 9:4 …to him who lacks judgment
- 9:16 …to him who lacks judgment
- 10:13 …of him who lacks judgment
- 10:21 …fools die for lack of judgment
- 11:12 …for his neighbor lacks judgment but a man of…
- 12:11 …whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment
- 15:21 …to one who lacks judgment but a man of…
- 17:18 …A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge…
- 24:30 …of a man lacking judgment
“himself” 7
“whose heart” 6
Exodus 1
- 35:5 …the LORD Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an…
2 Chronicles 1
- 29:31 …thank offerings and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt…
Psalms 2
Ecclesiastes 1
- 7:26 …who is a snare whose heart is a net and…
Ezekiel 1
- 11:21 …But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and…
“own heart” 6
Not translated: the English carries it without a word 5
“understanding” 5
“myself” 5
“skilled” 4
“own minds” 4
“conscience” 3
“courage” 3
“considered” 3
“brokenhearted” 3
“you” 2
“skilled craftsmen” 2
“craftsmen” 2
“indecision” 2
“kindly” 2
“attention” 2
“spirits” 2
“according to your own heart” 2
“who with one purpose” 2
“wholeheartedly” 2
“chest” 2
“double heart” 2
“senseless” 2
“like the heart” 2
“out of their own imagination” 2
“pay attention” 2
“yourselves” 1
Genesis 1
- 18:5 …that you may refresh yourselves This is why you…
“deceived” 1
Genesis 1
- 31:20 …Moreover Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by…
“spoke to her tenderly” 1
Genesis 1
- 34:3 …loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly
“jacob was stunned” 1
Genesis 1
- 45:26 …the land of Egypt But Jacob was stunned for he did not…
“kindly to them” 1
Genesis 1
- 50:21 …his brothers and spoke kindly to them
“word” 1
Exodus 1
- 9:21 …but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left…
“skilled craftsman” 1
Exodus 1
- 35:10 …Let every skilled craftsman among you come and…
“LORD” 1
Exodus 1
- 35:34 And the LORD has given both him…
“whom” 1
Exodus 1
- 36:2 …and every skilled person whom the LORD had gifted…
“own doing” 1
Numbers 1
- 16:28 …for it was not my own doing
“anything of my own accord” 1
Numbers 1
- 24:13 …I could not do anything of my own accord good or bad to…
“to” 1
Deuteronomy 1
- 4:11 …mountain blazing with fire to the heavens with black…
“made the hearts” 1
Joshua 1
- 14:8 …who went with me made the hearts of the people melt…
“when your heart” 1
Judges 1
- 16:15 …love you she asked when your heart is not with me…
“while their hearts” 1
Judges 1
- 16:25 …And while their hearts they said Call for…
“glad” 1
Judges 1
- 18:20 …So the priest was glad and took the ephod…
“themselves” 1
Judges 1
- 19:22 …While they were enjoying themselves suddenly the wicked men…
“good spirits” 1
Ruth 1
- 3:7 …finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits he went to lie…
“pay any heed” 1
1 Samuel 1
- 4:20 …she did not respond or pay any heed
“theirs” 1
1 Samuel 1
- 6:6 …Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs When He afflicted them…
“he” 1
1 Samuel 1
- 28:5 …saw the Philistine army he was afraid and trembled…
“not care” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 18:3 …we have to flee they will not care about us Even if…
“care” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 18:3 …die they will not care But you are worth…
“through the heart” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 18:14 …hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he…
“alive” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 18:14 …while he was still alive in the oak tree…
“comfort to” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 19:7 …Go out and speak comfort to your servants for I…
“senses” 1
1 Kings 1
- 8:47 …when they come to their senses in the land to…
“turned his heart” 1
1 Kings 1
- 11:3 …concubines and his wives turned his heart away…
“own choosing” 1
1 Kings 1
- 12:33 …eighth month a month of his own choosing Jeroboam offered sacrifices on…
“cheerful” 1
1 Kings 1
- 21:7 …up eat some food and be cheerful for I will get…
“became enraged” 1
2 Kings 1
- 6:11 …the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants…
“voluntarily” 1
2 Kings 1
- 12:4 …and the money brought voluntarily into the house of…
“arrogance” 1
2 Chronicles 1
- 26:16 …when Uzziah became powerful his arrogance led to his own…
“encouraged” 1
2 Chronicles 1
- 30:22 …And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who…
“after serious” 1
Nehemiah 1
- 5:7 and after serious thought I rebuked the…
“would” 1
Esther 1
- 7:5 …is the one who would devise such a scheme…
“reason” 1
Job 1
- 12:24 …deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander…
“made my heart” 1
Job 1
- 23:16 …God has made my heart faint the Almighty has…
“if my heart” 1
Job 1
- 31:7 …turned from the path if my heart has followed my eyes…
“courageous” 1
Psalms 1
- 27:14 …the LORD be strong and courageous Wait patiently for the…
“therefore my heart” 1
Psalms 1
- 28:7 …and I am helped Therefore my heart rejoices and I give…
“out of mind” 1
Psalms 1
- 31:12 …like a dead man out of mind I am like a…
“depths” 1
Psalms 1
- 46:2 …the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas…
“whenever my heart” 1
Psalms 1
- 61:2 …call out to You whenever my heart is faint Lead me…
“heart upon them” 1
Psalms 1
- 62:10 …increase do not set your heart upon them
“valiant” 1
Psalms 1
- 76:5 The valiant lie plundered they sleep…
“one mind” 1
Psalms 1
- 83:5 …For with one mind they plot together they…
“gain understanding” 1
Proverbs 1
- 8:5 …be shrewd O fools gain understanding
“makes the heart” 1
Proverbs 1
- 13:12 …Hope deferred makes the heart sick but desire fulfilled…
“intention” 1
Proverbs 1
- 17:16 …his hand with no intention of buying wisdom…
“opinions” 1
Proverbs 1
- 18:2 …but only in airing his opinions
“yet his heart” 1
Proverbs 1
- 19:3 …folly subverts his way yet his heart rages against the LORD…
“wisdom” 1
Proverbs 1
- 19:8 …He who acquires wisdom loves himself one who…
“kept my heart” 1
Proverbs 1
- 20:9 …Who can say I have kept my heart pure I am cleansed…
“pure heart” 1
Proverbs 1
- 22:11 …He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will…
“like one sleeping” 1
Proverbs 1
- 23:34 …You will be like one sleeping on the high seas…
“fill his heart” 1
Proverbs 1
- 26:25 …him for seven abominations fill his heart
“pay close attention” 1
Proverbs 1
- 27:23 …state of your flocks and pay close attention to your herds…
“sea” 1
Proverbs 1
- 30:19 …way of a ship at sea and the way of…
“sought” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 2:3 I sought to cheer my body…
“hearts of men” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 3:11 …has also set eternity in the hearts of men yet they cannot fathom…
“sense” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 10:3 …walks along the road his sense is lacking and he…
“make the hearts” 1
Isaiah 1
- 6:10 Make the hearts of this people calloused…
“merrymakers” 1
Isaiah 1
- 24:7 …the vine withers All the merrymakers now groan…
“wholehearted” 1
Isaiah 1
- 38:3 …walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion I have done…
“tenderly to” 1
Isaiah 1
- 40:2 …Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to…
“them” 1
Isaiah 1
- 41:22 …we may reflect on them and know the outcome…
“closed their minds” 1
Isaiah 1
- 44:18 …so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand…
“people” 1
Isaiah 1
- 46:12 …to Me you stubborn people far removed from righteousness…
“yourself” 1
Isaiah 1
- 47:10 …you astray you told yourself I am and there…
“king” 1
Jeremiah 1
- 4:9 …day declares the LORD the king and officials will lose…
“own” 1
Jeremiah 1
- 30:21 …for who would dare on his own to approach Me declares…
“it” 1
Jeremiah 1
- 48:36 …a flute for Moab it laments like a flute…
“leb kamai” 1
Jeremiah 1
- 51:1 …and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a…
“hearts of the people” 1
Lamentations 1
- 2:18 The hearts of the people cry out to the…
“willingly” 1
Lamentations 1
- 3:33 …For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the…
“over their hearts” 1
Lamentations 1
- 3:65 …a veil of anguish over their hearts may Your curse be…
“stubborn” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 2:4 …They are obstinate and stubborn children I am sending…
“hard hearted” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 3:7 …Israel is hard headed and hard-hearted
“abominations” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 11:21 …hearts pursue detestable things and abominations I will bring their…
“disheartened” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 13:22 …Because you have disheartened the righteous with your…
“as that” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 28:2 …have regarded your heart as that of a god…
“as the heart” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 28:6 …you regard your heart as the heart of a god…
“take careful note” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 44:5 …house of the LORD Take careful note of the entrance to…
“both heart” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 44:7 …brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy…
“tenderly” 1
Hosea 1
- 2:14 …and speak to her tenderly
“open their chests” 1
Hosea 1
- 13:8 …and I will tear open their chests There I will devour…
“men” 1
Amos 1
- 2:16 …the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on…
The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.