Definition

the heart (as the most interior organ);

Etymology

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

Where the KJV renders it

• bethink themselves
• breast
• comfortably
• courage
• ((faint)
• (tender-) heart(-ed)
• midst
• mind
• unawares
• understanding

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

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