> Hebrew words for mind include (without taking time for a search):
yetser maHshavot ('organ for thoughts' 1or2Chronicles)I happen to have a copies at hand at the moment)
Heshbon ('calculation', 'ability to think' DIALOGISMOS BenSira 9,15,
da`at ('knowing', especially in contexts refering to theability to know, Qumran serex ha-YaHad column 1. Cf. madda`,
modern for 'science'.)
hon (see Even Shoshan milon/DICTIONARY [not Bible concordance] forrabbinic uses)
tvuna, bina ('understanding, discernement',again, in contexts where the ability is in focus rather than the
results or quality, e.g. BenSira 15:15, 44:3)
ra`yonot ('thoughts')> maHshavot ('thoughts')
and of course,lev//levav 'heart' in contexts of thinking.
sexel 'understanding', in contexts where the ability to think is infocus, led to a medieval development of a technical term that is
'mind, mental' today in modern Hebrew.
OK. So there are more words that can mean mind in Hebrew than just lev. But it seems to me that (a) none of these words reference the mind very specifically and (b) the overwhelming predominance of references in the OT to the mind per se use lev. However, in Greek, there are a number of words that much more directly refer to the mind than does kardia (i.e. nous, dianoia, psuche). Hence, a Greek speaker might not see so clearly, if they read "heart, soul, and might", that the mind was involved; whereas to a Hebrew speaker it would be more obvious. My explanation for the addition to Mark 12:30, therefore, is that it represents an attempt to clarify the text for Greek speakers.
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