STRONGS NUMBER H3823


Word Summary
labab: to get a mind or to encourage
Original Word: לָבַב
Transliteration: labab
Phonetic Spelling: (law-bab')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to get a mind or to encourage
Meaning: transport, stultify, to make cakes
Strong's Concordance
make cakes, ravish, be wise

A primitive root; properly, to be enclosed (as if with fat); by implication (as denominative from lebab) to unheart, i.e. (in a good sense) transport (with love), or (in a bad sense) stultify; also (as denominative from labiybah) to make cakes -- make cakes, ravish, be wise.

see HEBREW lebab

see HEBREW labiybah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3823. labab

I. [לבב‎] verb denominative Niph`al Imperfect יִלָּבֵבget a mind; יִוָּלֵד אָדָם מֶּרֶא וְעַיִר יִלָּבֵב נָבוּב וְאִישׁshall an empty man get a mind or a wild ass's colt be born a man (?) Job 11:12.

Pi`el encourage; Perfect מֵעֵינַיִךְ בְּאַחַד֯ לִבַּבְתִּנִי‎ . . . . לִבַּבִתִּנִיSong of Solomon 4:9 (twice in verse) thou hast encouraged me, thou hast encouraged me with one of thine eyes Ew Gi Gr RV m (AV RV Ges Hi De Öttli (compare 5:6) ravished my heart, — Pi`el priv. Ges§ 52h).

II. [לבב‎] verb denominative Pi`el make cakes. Imperfect תְּלַבֵּב2 Samuel 13:6, 8.

לְבַדalone see בַּד‎ below בדד‎ above

[לַבָּה‎], לַבַּתExodus 3:2 see לֶהָבָה‎ below להב‎.