Definition

the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything

Etymology

a form of H3824 (לֵבָב);

Where the KJV renders it

• 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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.