1 Samuel 16:7:211 Sam.16.7.W21TAB
לַלֵּבָֽב׃
lallevav
“to the heart”
- Transliteration
- lal-le-VAV
- Extended
- lahl-leh-VAAV
- IPA
- /lal.leːˈvaːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the heart
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
lal-le-VAV
- phraseyour reading level
yir-E lal-le-VAV
- clause
KI LO a-SHER yir-E ha-a-DAM KI ha-a-DAM yir-E la-e-NA-yim va-ye-ho-VAH yir-E lal-le-VAV
- sentence
va-YO-mer ye-ho-VAH el-she-mu-EL al-ta-BET el-mar-E-hu ve-el-ge-VO-ah ko-ma-TO KI me-as-TI-hu KI LO a-SHER yir-E ha-a-DAM KI ha-a-DAM yir-E la-e-NA-yim va-ye-ho-VAH yir-E lal-le-VAV
Exegesis
The adversative vayehovah yirʾēh lalevav {וַיהוָה יִרְאֶה לַלֵּבָב | wayyəhôwāh yirʾēh la-lēḇāḇ} ‘but the LORD sees to the heart’ delivers the climactic antithesis. This chiastic parallelism between outward form and inner reality underscores divine insight beyond mortal perception.
Root and etymology
l-b-blamed–bet–bet
“heart”
In context — 1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for the human does not see as mortals see, for they look at the outward, but the LORD sees to the heart .”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 16:7:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of 1 Samuel 16:7, so the Hebrew word לַלֵּבָֽב׃ (lallevav) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Sam.16.7.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.16.7.W21.S1) and character.