Strong's #2588: kardia (pronounced kar-dee'-ah)
prolonged from a primary kar (Latin cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle:--(+ broken-)heart(-ed).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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kardia
1) the heart
1a) that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the blood, and hence was regarded as the seat of physical life
1b) denotes the centre of all physical and spiritual life
2a) the vigour and sense of physical life
2b) the centre and seat of spiritual life
2b1) the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavours
2b2) of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence
2b3) of the will and character
2b4) of the soul so far as it is affected and stirred in a bad way or good, or of the soul as the seat of the sensibilities, affections, emotions, desires, appetites, passions
1c) of the middle or central or inmost part of anything, even though inanimate
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: prolonged from a primary kar (Latin, cor, "heart" )
Citing in TDNT: 3:605, 415
Usage:
This word is used 160 times:
Matthew 5:8: "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."
Matthew 5:28: "already in his heart."
Matthew 6:21: "is, there will your heart be also."
Matthew 9:4: "evil in your hearts?"
Matthew 11:29: "meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your"
Matthew 12:34: "of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
Matthew 12:35: "good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil"
Matthew 12:40: "nights in the heart of the earth."
Matthew 13:15: "For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,"
Matthew 13:15: "hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and"
Matthew 13:19: "that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by"
Matthew 15:8: "with their lips; but their heart is far from me."
Matthew 15:18: "come forth from the heart; and they defile the man."
Matthew 15:19: "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,"
Matthew 18:35: "if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his"
Matthew 22:37: "with all thy heart, and with all thy"
Matthew 24:48: "shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;"
Mark 2:6: "reasoning in their hearts,"
Mark 2:8: "ye these things in your hearts?"
Mark 3:5: "the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth"
Mark 4:15: "that was sown in their hearts."
Mark 6:52: "loaves: for their heart was hardened."
Mark 7:6: "with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
Mark 7:19: "not into his heart, but into the belly,"
Mark 7:21: "from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,"
Mark 8:17: "understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?"
Mark 11:23: "shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that"
Mark 12:30: "with all thy heart, and with all thy"
Mark 12:33: "with all the heart and with all the"
Luke 1:17: "power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and"
Luke 1:51: "the proud in the imagination of their hearts."
Luke 1:66: "them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child"
Luke 2:19: "and pondered them in her heart."
Luke 2:35: "the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."
Luke 2:51: "sayings in her heart."
Luke 3:15: "mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;"
Luke 4:18: "he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance"
Luke 5:22: "reason ye in your hearts?"
Luke 6:45: "good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil"
Luke 6:45: "evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of"
Luke 6:45: "the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."
Luke 8:12: "word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved."
Luke 8:15: "an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep"
Luke 9:47: "the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him"
Luke 10:27: "with all thy heart, and with all thy"
Luke 12:34: "is, there will your heart be also."
Luke 12:45: "say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;"
Luke 16:15: "God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men"
Luke 21:14: "it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:"
Luke 21:34: "to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and"
