Gematria of Heart
8 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “heart” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,030 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 8
- Occurrences
- 1,030
- Distinct values
- 7
The 8 Hebrew words rendered “heart”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כנֶפֶשׁ
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
First appearance ·Genesis 18:12בראשית יח:יבבְּקִרְבָּהּ
used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
First appearance ·Genesis 15:4בראשית טו:דמִמֵּעֶיךָ
{the heart (as the most interior organ);}
First appearance ·Daniel 2:30דניאל ב:ללִבְבָךְ
properly, anxiety, i.e. (by implication) the heart (as its seat)
First appearance ·Daniel 6:15דניאל ו:טובָּל
{the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything}
First appearance ·Daniel 7:28דניאל ז:כחבְּלִבִּי
observant, i.e. (concretely) the mind
First appearance ·Job 38:36איוב לח:לולַשֶּׂכְוִי
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of heart?
The Tanakh renders “heart” with 8 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נפש = 430, קרב = 302, מעה = 115, and 5 more.
How do you say heart in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 8 Hebrew words for “heart”; the most frequent are נפש (nephesh), 754 times; קרב (qereb), 227 times; מעה (mêʻeh), 32 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.