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# לְבַב

Biblical Aramaic

**heart** — used 7 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

heart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b7_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְבַב: n.m. heart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b7_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 4:13 heart (v. BH; so Egyptian Aramaic S-CB 12 + );—cstr. ל׳ Dn 4:13; 7:4; sf. לִבְבָךְ 2:30; 5:22, -בֵהּ 4:13; 5:20, 21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: heart (5); a heart (1); of (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.22/#tree)

וְאַ֤נְתְּ בְּרֵהּ֙ בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֔ר לָ֥א הַשְׁפֵּ֖לְתְּ לִבְבָ֑ךְ כָּל־קֳבֵ֕ל דִּ֥י כָל־דְּנָ֖ה יְדַֽעְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* and you son his O.Belshazzar not you.have.brought.low heart your as to because that all this you.knew

*JPS 1917:* And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this;

[Daniel 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.13/#tree)

לִבְבֵהּ֙ מִן־אֲנָשָׁ֣א יְשַׁנּ֔וֹן וּלְבַ֥ב חֵיוָ֖ה יִתְיְהִ֣ב לֵ֑הּ וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה עִדָּנִ֖ין יַחְלְפ֥וּן עֲלֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* heart its away.from (the) humankind let.it.be.changed and.\[the\] heart of.an.animal let.it.be.given to it and seven times let.them.pass over it

*JPS 1917:* Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b7_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b7_5d1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).