Strong G2588καρδία
heart
- Transliteration
- kardia
- Pronunciation
- kar-dee'-ah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Prolonged from a primary κάρ kar (Latin cor heart); the heart that is (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle: - (+ broken-) heart (-ed).
Detailed definition
καρδία, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for לֵבָב,לֵב;]
the heart,
1. the bodily organ which is regarded as the seat of life ( 2Ki.18:14, 4Ki.9:24, al.).
2. In a psychological sense, the seat of man's collective energies, the focus of personal life, the seat of the rational as well as the emotional and volitional elements in human life, hence that wherein lies the moral and religious condition of the man (DB, ii, 317f.; DGG, ii, 344a);
__(a) of the seat of physical life ( Jdg.19:5, Psa.101 (102):5 103 (104):15): Act.14:17, Jas.5:5;
__(b) of the seat of spiritual life: Mat.5:8, Mrk.7:19, Luk.1:51, Act.5:3, Rom.10:9, 10 Eph.6:5, al.; pl., Mat.9:4, Mrk.2:6, al.; opposite to στόμα, χείλεα, πρόσωπον, Mat.15:8, Mrk.7:6, Rom.10:8, 9 2Co.5:12; περιτομὴ καρδίας, Rom.2:29; ἐκ κ., Rom.6:17, 1Pe.1:22; ἀπὸ τῶν κ., Mat.18:35; ἐν ὅλῃ (ἐξ ὅλης), Mat.22:37, Mrk.12:30" (LXX); γινώσκειν (ἐρευνᾶν, δοκιμάζειν) τὰς κ., Luk.16:15, Rom.8:27, 1Th.2:4; to think, etc., ἐν τ. κ., Mat.9:4, Mrk.2:6, Luk.12:45, Rom.10:6; συνιέναι (νοεῖν) τῇ κ., Mat.13:15, Jhn.12:40; ἐπαχύνθη ἡ κ., Mat.13:15 (LXX); πωροῦν τὴν κ., Jhn.12:40; κ. εὐθεῖα, Act.8:21; πονηρά, Heb.3:12; ἀμετανόητος, Rom.2:5; εἶναι (ἔχειν) ἐν τῇ κ., 2Co.7:3, Php.1:7; ὀδύνη τῇ κ., Rom.9:2.
3. Of the central or innermost part of anything (of the pith of wood, Arist.): τ. γῆς, Mat.12:40 (Cremer, 343ff.).
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for לֵבָב,לֵב;]
the heart,
1. the bodily organ which is regarded as the seat of life ( 2Ki.18:14, 4Ki.9:24, al.).
2. In a psychological sense, the seat of man's collective energies, the focus of personal life, the seat of the rational as well as the emotional and volitional elements in human life, hence that wherein lies the moral and religious condition of the man (DB, ii, 317f.; DGG, ii, 344a);
__(a) of the seat of physical life ( Jdg.19:5, Psa.101 (102):5 103 (104):15): Act.14:17, Jas.5:5;
__(b) of the seat of spiritual life: Mat.5:8, Mrk.7:19, Luk.1:51, Act.5:3, Rom.10:9, 10 Eph.6:5, al.; pl., Mat.9:4, Mrk.2:6, al.; opposite to στόμα, χείλεα, πρόσωπον, Mat.15:8, Mrk.7:6, Rom.10:8, 9 2Co.5:12; περιτομὴ καρδίας, Rom.2:29; ἐκ κ., Rom.6:17, 1Pe.1:22; ἀπὸ τῶν κ., Mat.18:35; ἐν ὅλῃ (ἐξ ὅλης), Mat.22:37, Mrk.12:30" (LXX); γινώσκειν (ἐρευνᾶν, δοκιμάζειν) τὰς κ., Luk.16:15, Rom.8:27, 1Th.2:4; to think, etc., ἐν τ. κ., Mat.9:4, Mrk.2:6, Luk.12:45, Rom.10:6; συνιέναι (νοεῖν) τῇ κ., Mat.13:15, Jhn.12:40; ἐπαχύνθη ἡ κ., Mat.13:15 (LXX); πωροῦν τὴν κ., Jhn.12:40; κ. εὐθεῖα, Act.8:21; πονηρά, Heb.3:12; ἀμετανόητος, Rom.2:5; εἶναι (ἔχειν) ἐν τῇ κ., 2Co.7:3, Php.1:7; ὀδύνη τῇ κ., Rom.9:2.
3. Of the central or innermost part of anything (of the pith of wood, Arist.): τ. γῆς, Mat.12:40 (Cremer, 343ff.).
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2588 appears in 152 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- heart151
- of4
- in3
- with3
- a1
- an1
First verses
- Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
- Matthew 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Matthew 6:21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- Matthew 9:4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
- Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
- Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Matthew 12:35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
- Matthew 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matthew 13:15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
- Matthew 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
- Matthew 15:8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
- Matthew 15:18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
- Matthew 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Matthew 18:35So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
- Matthew 22:37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
- Matthew 24:48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
- Mark 2:6But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
- Mark 2:8And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
- Mark 3:5And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
- Mark 4:15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
καρδί-α, ἡ,
Ionic dialect καρδίη, Epic dialect κρᾰδίη (καρδίη in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] only in καρδίῃ ἄλληκτον πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.452, +others, καρδία)] always in Trag., except in some dact. and anapaest meter verses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 881, “Th.” 781, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 99, “Hipp.” 1274))]; Aeolic dialect κάρζα [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 407.21)] (but καρδία [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.6); 5th c.AD: Cypria)] κορζία (Paph.), [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (perhaps κόρζα))]:—heart, ἐν δέ τέ οἱ κραδίη μεγάλα στέρνοισι πατάσσει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.282; κραδίη δέ μοι ἔξω στηθέων ἐκθρῴσκει, of one panic-stricken, 10.94)]; πηδᾷ ἡ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 215e, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1391 (Lyric poetry))]: especially as the seat of feeling and passion, as rage or anger, οἰδάνεται κραδίη Χόλῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.646; τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.18, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 837)]; καρδίης πλέως full of heart, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 58.4)]; of fear or courage, κυνὸς ὄμματ᾽ ἔχων, κραδίην δ᾽ ἐλάφοιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.225)]; [σφηκῶν] κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (16.266; ἐν μέν οἱ κραδίῃ θάρσος βάλε 21.547, etc.; ὀρχεῖται καρδία φόβῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 166; θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι κ. ἔχεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 88)]; τὸν νέον τίνα οἴει κ. ἴσχει; what do you think are his feelings? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 492c)]; of sorrow or joy, ἐν κραδίῃ μέγα πένθος ἄεξε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.489; κ. καὶ θυμὸς ἰάνθη 4.548; ἄχος κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἵκανεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.171, compare 10.10, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 10.85, etc.; καρδίην ἰαίνεται 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 36)]; κελαινόχρως.. πάλλεταί μου κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 785; ὦ τάλαινα κ. ψυχή τ᾽ ἐμή 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 466)]; of love, Sapph.[same place], etc.; ἐκ τῆς κ. φιλεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 86)]; φιλέειν ἀπὸ κ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 29.4 (but ἐρεῖν τἀπὸ κ)]. to speak freely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 475))]; λαλῆσαι ἐπὶ καρδίαν τινός speak kindly to.., [LXX (LXX.Judg.19.3.)]
2 inclination, desire, purpose, ἔμ᾽ ὀτρύνει κραδίη καὶ θυμός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.220)]; πρόφρων κ. ἐν πάντεσσι πόνοισι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 244; καρδίας δ᾽ ἐξίσταμαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1105.)]
3 mind, ὡς ἄνοον κραδίην ἔχες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.441; κραδίη πόρφυρε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.572; κραδίη προτιόσσετ᾽ ὄλεθρον 5.389; εἰ θεάσῃ τοῖς τῆς καρδίας ὀφθαλμοῖς “Corpus Hermeticum” 4.11)], compare 7.2; διαλογισμοὶ ἀναβαίνουσι ἐν τῇ κ. [NT (NT.Luke.24.38.)]
II cardiac orifice of the stomach, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.72, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.338, +others)]
III heart in wood, pith, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.14.1)]; ={ἐντεριώνη},[Refs ([prev. work] 1.2.6; ἀρτεμισίας μονοκλώνου καρδίας ζ “PMag.Berol.” 1.245, compare “PMag. Leid.V.” 13.24; λαβὼν βάϊν Χλωρὰν καὶ τῆς κ. κρατήσας σχίσον εἰς δύο “PMag.Leid.W.” 6.51.)]
IV metaphorically, κ. θαλάσσης depths of the sea, [LXX (LXX.Eze.27.4.)]
V Κ. Λέοντος, name of the star [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Regulus”, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 3.5. (I.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] [kcirc]ṛd-, cf. Latin cor(d)-, Lithuanian širdis 'heart', etc.)
Ionic dialect καρδίη, Epic dialect κρᾰδίη (καρδίη in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] only in καρδίῃ ἄλληκτον πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.452, +others, καρδία)] always in Trag., except in some dact. and anapaest meter verses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 881, “Th.” 781, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 99, “Hipp.” 1274))]; Aeolic dialect κάρζα [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 407.21)] (but καρδία [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.6); 5th c.AD: Cypria)] κορζία (Paph.), [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (perhaps κόρζα))]:—heart, ἐν δέ τέ οἱ κραδίη μεγάλα στέρνοισι πατάσσει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.282; κραδίη δέ μοι ἔξω στηθέων ἐκθρῴσκει, of one panic-stricken, 10.94)]; πηδᾷ ἡ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 215e, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1391 (Lyric poetry))]: especially as the seat of feeling and passion, as rage or anger, οἰδάνεται κραδίη Χόλῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.646; τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.18, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 837)]; καρδίης πλέως full of heart, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 58.4)]; of fear or courage, κυνὸς ὄμματ᾽ ἔχων, κραδίην δ᾽ ἐλάφοιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.225)]; [σφηκῶν] κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (16.266; ἐν μέν οἱ κραδίῃ θάρσος βάλε 21.547, etc.; ὀρχεῖται καρδία φόβῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 166; θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι κ. ἔχεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 88)]; τὸν νέον τίνα οἴει κ. ἴσχει; what do you think are his feelings? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 492c)]; of sorrow or joy, ἐν κραδίῃ μέγα πένθος ἄεξε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.489; κ. καὶ θυμὸς ἰάνθη 4.548; ἄχος κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἵκανεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.171, compare 10.10, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 10.85, etc.; καρδίην ἰαίνεται 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 36)]; κελαινόχρως.. πάλλεταί μου κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 785; ὦ τάλαινα κ. ψυχή τ᾽ ἐμή 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 466)]; of love, Sapph.[same place], etc.; ἐκ τῆς κ. φιλεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 86)]; φιλέειν ἀπὸ κ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 29.4 (but ἐρεῖν τἀπὸ κ)]. to speak freely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 475))]; λαλῆσαι ἐπὶ καρδίαν τινός speak kindly to.., [LXX (LXX.Judg.19.3.)]
2 inclination, desire, purpose, ἔμ᾽ ὀτρύνει κραδίη καὶ θυμός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.220)]; πρόφρων κ. ἐν πάντεσσι πόνοισι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 244; καρδίας δ᾽ ἐξίσταμαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1105.)]
3 mind, ὡς ἄνοον κραδίην ἔχες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.441; κραδίη πόρφυρε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.572; κραδίη προτιόσσετ᾽ ὄλεθρον 5.389; εἰ θεάσῃ τοῖς τῆς καρδίας ὀφθαλμοῖς “Corpus Hermeticum” 4.11)], compare 7.2; διαλογισμοὶ ἀναβαίνουσι ἐν τῇ κ. [NT (NT.Luke.24.38.)]
II cardiac orifice of the stomach, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.72, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.338, +others)]
III heart in wood, pith, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.14.1)]; ={ἐντεριώνη},[Refs ([prev. work] 1.2.6; ἀρτεμισίας μονοκλώνου καρδίας ζ “PMag.Berol.” 1.245, compare “PMag. Leid.V.” 13.24; λαβὼν βάϊν Χλωρὰν καὶ τῆς κ. κρατήσας σχίσον εἰς δύο “PMag.Leid.W.” 6.51.)]
IV metaphorically, κ. θαλάσσης depths of the sea, [LXX (LXX.Eze.27.4.)]
V Κ. Λέοντος, name of the star [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Regulus”, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 3.5. (I.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] [kcirc]ṛd-, cf. Latin cor(d)-, Lithuanian širdis 'heart', etc.)