Properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center , whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
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H7130 names an inner part or center and often locates someone or something in the midst of a person, people, place, or community. Its uses can be bodily, spatial, social, or inward, so the surrounding construction must decide whether the text speaks of organs, interior thought, presence among a people, or position inside a place.
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H7130 names an inner part or center and often locates someone or something in the midst of a person, people, place, or community. Its uses can be bodily, spatial, social, or inward, so the surrounding construction must decide whether the text speaks of organs, interior thought, presence among a people, or position inside a place.
The BSB source-word alignment has 227 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include among you (18), among (16), from among you (15), the entrails (14), in (13).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 18:12. Its strongest book concentrations include Deuteronomy (41), Psalms (27), Leviticus (24), Joshua (20).
H7130 names an inner part or center and often locates someone or something in the midst of a person, people, place, or community. Its uses can be bodily, spatial, social, or inward, so the surrounding construction must decide whether the text speaks of organs, interior thought, presence among a people, or position inside a place. In Ezek. 11. 19, god promises the scattered people one heart and a new spirit within them, replacing a stony heart with a responsive heart of flesh.
In Joel. 2. 27, after restored provision, Israel will know that the Lord is present among His people and that He alone is their God. H7130 opens teaching on what is present within a person or community and on the difference between claimed nearness to God and a life actually shaped by His presence. It corrects vague appeals to the heart that ignore embodied and communal uses, and it challenges religious confidence that says God is among us while leaders practice injustice.
H7130 makes inwardness concrete rather than private or sentimental: Ezekiel promises a new spirit within a restored people, Joel locates the LORDs presence among Israel, and Proverbs pictures wisdom resting in the discerning heart. These settings connect inner renewal, public covenant life, and practiced discernment without making them identical. For H7130, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable.
H7130 does not prove that every inward impression comes from God, make communal belonging a guarantee of divine approval, or separate spiritual renewal from truthful conduct and accountable relationships.
H7130 appears across passages that develop inner life, communal presence, moral formation, divine nearness, and truth within a people. For H7130, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
God promises the scattered people one heart and a new spirit within them, replacing a stony heart with a responsive heart of flesh.
Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
After restored provision, Israel will know that the Lord is present among His people and that He alone is their God.
Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; even among fools she is known.
Wisdom is pictured as resting within the discerning heart, while its presence among fools is exposed rather than securely welcomed.
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Hebrew word. Interior space or deepest part of something, moving from literal organs to figurative interior thoughts and divine presence within.
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H7130 makes inwardness concrete rather than private or sentimental: Ezekiel promises a new spirit within a restored people, Joel locates the LORDs presence among Israel, and Proverbs pictures wisdom resting in the discerning heart. These settings connect inner renewal, public covenant life, and practiced discernment without making them identical. H7130 names an inner part or center and often locates someone or something in the midst of a person, people, place, or community.
The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: Ezek. 11. 19 shows that god promises the scattered people one heart and a new spirit within them, replacing a stony heart with a responsive heart of flesh, while Joel. 2. 27 shows that after restored provision, Israel will know that the Lord is present among His people and that He alone is their God. Prov. 14.
33 Adds that wisdom is pictured as resting within the discerning heart, while its presence among fools is exposed rather than securely welcomed. H7130 opens teaching on what is present within a person or community and on the difference between claimed nearness to God and a life actually shaped by His presence. It corrects vague appeals to the heart that ignore embodied and communal uses, and it challenges religious confidence that says God is among us while leaders practice injustice.
A church teaching H7130 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support. H7130 does not prove that every inward impression comes from God, make communal belonging a guarantee of divine approval, or separate spiritual renewal from truthful conduct and accountable relationships.
Ezek.11.19
H7130 is a Hebrew noun for the inner or nearest part that commonly works with prepositions to express within, among, or from the midst; the governing phrase identifies the relevant sphere.
The Old Testament uses inner and midst language for organs, thought, communal life, and the LORDs covenant presence. The New Testament speaks of the Spirit dwelling among and within believers, but those Greek expressions should inform canonical synthesis without being treated as lexical equivalents of H7130.