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:
1 Corinthians 14:25: "are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so"
2 Corinthians 1:22: "of the Spirit in our hearts."
2 Corinthians 2:4: "affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many"
2 Corinthians 3:2: "written in our hearts, known and read of"
2 Corinthians 3:3: "in fleshy tables of the heart."
2 Corinthians 3:15: "is upon their heart."
2 Corinthians 4:6: "shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge"
2 Corinthians 5:12: "in appearance, and not in heart."
2 Corinthians 6:11: "unto you, our heart is enlarged."
2 Corinthians 7:3: "ye are in our hearts to die and live with"
2 Corinthians 8:16: "earnest care into the heart of Titus for you."
2 Corinthians 9:7: "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or"
Galatians 4:6: "Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."
Ephesians 3:17: "may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted"
Ephesians 4:18: "of the blindness of their heart:"
Ephesians 5:19: "making melody in your heart to the Lord;"
Ephesians 6:5: "in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;"
Ephesians 6:22: "our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts."
Philippians 1:7: "have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds,"
Philippians 4:7: "understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ"
Colossians 2:2: "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and"
Colossians 3:15: "rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called"
Colossians 3:16: "grace in your hearts to the Lord."
Colossians 3:22: "but in singleness of heart, fearing God:"
Colossians 4:8: "your estate, and comfort your hearts;"
1 Thessalonians 2:4: "God, which trieth our hearts."
1 Thessalonians 2:17: "a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see"
1 Thessalonians 3:13: "To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God,"
2 Thessalonians 2:17: "Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every"
2 Thessalonians 3:5: "Lord direct your hearts into the love of God,"
1 Timothy 1:5: "charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and"
2 Timothy 2:22: "Lord out of a pure heart."
Hebrews 3:8: "Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,"
Hebrews 3:10: "said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known"
Hebrews 3:12: "any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living"
Hebrews 3:15: "harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."
Hebrews 4:7: "harden not your hearts."
Hebrews 4:12: "of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Hebrews 8:10: "them in their hearts: and I will be to them a"
Hebrews 10:16: "laws into their hearts, and in their minds"
Hebrews 10:22: "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts"
Hebrews 10:22: "in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience,"
Hebrews 13:9: "For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats,"
James 1:26: "but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain."
James 3:14: "strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie"
James 4:8: "ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded."
James 5:5: "been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter."
James 5:8: "Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the"
1 Peter 1:22: "one another with a pure heart fervently:"
1 Peter 3:4: "hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and"
