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:
Luke 24:25: "fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the"
Luke 24:32: "one to another, Did not our heart burn within"
Luke 24:38: "arise in your hearts?"
John 12:40: "and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes,"
John 12:40: "with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal"
John 13:2: "put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to"
John 14:1: "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe"
John 14:27: "unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
John 16:6: "sorrow hath filled your heart."
John 16:22: "you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your"
Acts 2:26: "Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue"
Acts 2:37: "Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter"
Acts 2:46: "their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,"
Acts 4:32: "of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither"
Acts 5:3: "hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost,"
Acts 5:4: "hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied"
Acts 7:23: "it came into his heart to visit his brethren the"
Acts 7:39: "but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,"
Acts 7:51: "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always"
Acts 7:54: "they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him"
Acts 8:21: "matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight"
Acts 8:22: "the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee."
Acts 8:37: "thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said,"
Acts 11:23: "exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord."
Acts 13:22: "son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all"
Acts 14:17: "seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
Acts 15:9: "and them, purifying their hearts by faith."
Acts 16:14: "God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended"
Acts 21:13: "and to break mine heart? for I am ready"
Acts 28:27: "For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears"
Acts 28:27: "hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and"
Romans 1:21: "and their foolish heart was darkened."
Romans 1:24: "through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies"
Romans 2:5: "hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against"
Romans 2:15: "written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and"
Romans 2:29: "which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not"
Romans 5:5: "of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost"
Romans 6:17: "of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine"
Romans 8:27: "And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind"
Romans 9:2: "continual sorrow in my heart."
Romans 10:1: "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to"
Romans 10:6: "not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?"
Romans 10:8: "and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith,"
Romans 10:9: "shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him"
Romans 10:10: "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made"
Romans 16:18: "fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."
1 Corinthians 2:9: "heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which"
1 Corinthians 4:5: "and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then"
1 Corinthians 7:37: "that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but"
1 Corinthians 7:37: "decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth"
