Lexicon / H3823a
לָבַב
la.vav
  • to encourage
  • encourage

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: to encourage

1) to ravish, become intelligent, get a mind

1a) (Niphal) to take heart, become enheartened, become intelligent

1b) (Piel) to ravish the heart, encourage, make heart beat faster

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: encourage

Root √לבב: לבב לֵבַב לֵב לִבָּא לב לֵב לֵבָב labâbu libbu Syriac Ethiopic Arabic in unruhiger Bewegung sein לֵב earliest poetry, J and E chiefly, Eph doc. of Ju S K chiefly, Am Ho Zc 9-11 Is 15 use. לֵבָב first appears in Is and certain strata of E and Eph doc. of Ju S K, and is continued in Zp Na (prob.) D H Dt editors and some ψψ. לֵב לֵבָב Je Ez Jb preferbut use occasionally. לֵב Is 2, 3 La and exilic ψψ use. לבב Is 13-14:23 Je 50-51 Hg Zc 1-8 Jo Jon ψ 25, 90, 104, use. לֵב Mal Ob Zc 12-14 Memorials of Ezr and Ne Pr Ru Ct and many ψψ of Persian period use. לֵבָב Chr and Dn use. לֵב לֵבָב לֵב לֵב לֵבָב Semitic Studies in Memory of Dr. Kohut Ec Est and latest ψψ use. Exceptions will be noted and suspected passages indicated by ? underandwhich are treated apart. See Br. 'Study of the use ofandin the O. T.' in, Berlin, 1897. (mng. dub.; Dl Pr. 88ff. finds orig. mng. in As. ;—√ of,; cf. NH id. As. Aram. Eth.Ar. Sab. Sab. Denkm. p. 18, No. 1, i. 7);—the literary usage ofandis:

לבב vb. denom Niph get a mind . Pi encourage . .