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 Peter 3:15: "God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer"
2 Peter 1:19: "the day star arise in your hearts:"
2 Peter 2:14: "beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed"
1 John 3:19: "truth, and shall assure our hearts before him."
1 John 3:20: "For if our heart condemn us, God is"
1 John 3:20: "is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."
1 John 3:21: "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have"
Revelation 2:23: "he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you"
Revelation 17:17: "hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and"
Revelation 18:7: "she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am"
