Hebrew verb · H3823
לָבַב
labablaw-bab'
to encourage; to bake
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâbab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3823is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3823
(in a good sense) transport (with love), or (in a bad sense) stultify; to make cakes
The King James renders it: make cakes, ravish, be wise.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
labab is rendered "to encourage; to bake". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to encourage".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 13:6So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 13:6וּתְלַבֵּ֤ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to encourage, and to bake.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to encourageStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where2 Samuel 13:6So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said… |
| to bakeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- you have stolen heart my2
- and let her make cakes1
- and she made cakes1
- he will become intelligent1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַתְּלַבֵּ֣ב1
- וּתְלַבֵּ֤ב1
- יִלָּבֵ֑ב1
- לִבַּבְתִּ֙ינִי֙1
- לִבַּבְתִּ֖נִי1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVpp2fs/Sp1bs
- HC/Vpu3fs1HC/Vpu3fs
- Hc/Vpw3fs1Hc/Vpw3fs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
2 Samuel
two uses
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
- וּתְלַבֵּ֤בutelabevHC/Vpu3fstagged: and let her make cakes
So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
- וַתְּלַבֵּ֣בvatelabevHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she made cakes
Job
one use
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- יִלָּבֵ֑בyilavevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will become intelligent
Song of Solomon
two uses
You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
- לִבַּבְתִּ֖נִיlibavtiniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have stolen heart my
- לִבַּבְתִּ֙ינִי֙libavtiniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have stolen heart my
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.