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Lexicon :: Strong's G2588 - kardia

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καρδία
Transliteration
kardia (Key)
Pronunciation
kar-dee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Prolonged from a primary kar (Latin, cor,
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:605,415

Strong’s Definitions

καρδία kardía, kar-dee'-ah; prolonged from a primary κάρ kár (Latin cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle:—(+ broken-)heart(-ed).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 160x

The KJV translates Strong's G2588 in the following manner: heart (159x), broken hearted (with G4937) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 160x
The KJV translates Strong's G2588 in the following manner: heart (159x), broken hearted (with G4937) (1x).
  1. the heart

    1. 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

    2. denotes the centre of all physical and spiritual life

      1. the vigour and sense of physical life

      2. the centre and seat of spiritual life

        1. the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavours

        2. of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence

        3. of the will and character

        4. 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

    3. of the middle or central or inmost part of anything, even though inanimate

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καρδία kardía, kar-dee'-ah; prolonged from a primary κάρ kár (Latin cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle:—(+ broken-)heart(-ed).
STRONGS G2588:
καρδία, καρδίας, , poetic κραδία and καρδιη (in the latter form almost always in Homer (only at the beginning of a line in three places; everywhere else by metathesis κραδιη; Ebeling, Lex. Homer, under the word)) (from a root signifying to quiver or palpitate; cf. Cartius § 39; Vanicek, p. 1097 (Etym. Magn. 491, 56 παρά τό κραδαίνω, τό σείω. ἀεικινητος γάρ καρδία); allied with Latin cor; English heart); the Sept. for לֵב and לֵבָב; the heart;
1. properly, that organ in the animal body which is the center of the circulation of the blood, and hence, was regarded as the seat of physical life: 2 Samuel 18:14; 2 Kings 9:24; Tobit 6:5 (4), 7f (6f), 17 (16). Hence,
2. universally, καρδία denotes the seat and center of all physical and spiritual life; and
a. the vigor and sense of physical life (Psalm 101:5 (Ps. 102:5); στήρισον τήν καρδίαν σου ψωμῷ ἄρτου, Judges 19:5; to which add Psalm 103:15 (Ps. 104:15)): τρέφειν τάς καρδίας, James 5:5; ἐμπιπλῶν τάς καρδίας τροφῆς, Acts 14:17; βάρειν τῆς καρδίας κραιπάλῃ καί μέθη, Luke 21:34; (but see b. δ. below);
b. the center and seat of spiritual life, the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavors (so in English heart, inner man, etc.);
α. universally: Matthew 5:8; Matthew 6:21; Mark 7:19; Luke 1:51; Luke 2:51; Luke 8:12, 15; Acts 5:3; Romans 10:9; 1 Corinthians 14:25; 2 Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 6:5; Colossians 3:22; 1 Peter 3:4, etc.; plural: Matthew 9:4; Mark 2:6, 8; Mark 4:16 (R L text Tr marginal reading); Luke 1:17; Luke 2:35; Luke 5:22; (Luke 24:38 R G L marginal reading; Acts 7:51 L T Tr WH text); Romans 2:15; Romans 16:18; 2 Corinthians 3:2; Galatians 4:6; Philippians 4:7; Ephesians 5:19 Lachmann; Hebrews 8:10 (T WH marginal reading singular); Hebrews 10:16, etc. καρδία is distinguished from τό στόμα or from τά χειλεα: Matthew 15:8, 18; Mark 7:6; 2 Corinthians 6:11; Romans 10:8f; from τό πρόσωπον: 2 Corinthians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:17; περιτομή καρδίας, Romans 2:29; ἀπερίτμητοι τῇ καρδία, Acts 7:51 (L T Tr WH text καρδίαις, WH marginal reading genitive καρδίας, cf. Buttmann, 170 (148)). of things done from the heart i. e. cordially or sincerely, truly (without simulation or pretence) the following phrases are used: ἐκ καρδίας (Aristophanes nub. 86), Romans 6:17; and L T Tr WH in 1 Peter 1:22, where R G ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας, as in 1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:22; ἀπό τῶν καρδιῶν, Matthew 18:35 (ἀπό καρδίας εὐχάριστος τοῖς θεοῖς, Antoninus 2, 3); ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ καρδία and ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας, Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30, 33; Luke 10:27, and Rec. in Acts 8:37 (Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 26:16; Psalm 118:34 (Ps. 119:34)); μετ' ἀληθινῆς καρδίας, Hebrews 10:22. ἐρευναν τάς καρδίας, Romans 8:27; Revelation 2:23; δοκιμάζειν, 1 Thessalonians 2:4; γινώσκειν, Luke 16:15 (ἐτάζειν, Jeremiah 17:10; Psalm 7:10); διανοίγειν τήν καρδίαν (see διανοίγω, 2), Acts 16:14; ἦν καρδία καί ψυχή μία, there was perfect unanimity, agreement of heart and soul, Acts 4:32; τιθέναι τί ἐν τῇ καρδία (בְּלֵב and לֵב עַל שׂוּם, 1 Samuel 21:12; Malachi 2:2; Daniel 1:8; τιθέναι ἐν στηθεσσιν, ἐν φρεσίν, etc., in Homer), to lay a thing up in the heart to be considered more carefully and pondered, Luke 1:66; to fix in the heart i. e. to purpose, plan, to do something, Acts 5:4 (A. V. conceived in thy heart); also εἰς τήν καρδίαν (L T Tr WH ἐν τήν καρδίαν) followed by the infinitive, Luke 21:14; βάλλειν εἰς τήν καρδίαν τίνος, followed by ἵνα, to put into one's mind the design of doing a thing, John 13:2; also διδόναι followed by an infinitive, Revelation 17:17; ἀναβαίνει ἐπί τήν καρδίαν τίνος, followed by an infinitive, the purpose to do a thing comes into the mind, Acts 7:23; ἐν τῇ καρδία joined to verbs of thinking, reflecting upon, doubting, etc.: ἐνθυμεῖσθαι, διαλογίζεσθαι, Matthew 9:4; Mark 2:6, 8; Luke 3:15; Luke 5:22; λέγειν, εἰπεῖν (בְּלִבּו אָמַר), to think, consider with oneself, Matthew 24:48; Luke 12:45; Romans 10:6; Revelation 18:7 (Deuteronomy 8:17; Deuteronomy 9:4); συμβάλλειν, to revolve in mind, Luke 2:19; διακρίνεσθαι, to doubt, Mark 11:23; διαλογισμοί ἀναβαινουσι, of persons in doubt, Luke 24:38 (R G L marginal reading plural); ἀναβαίνει τί ἐπί καρδίαν, the thought of a thing enters the mind, 1 Corinthians 2:9.
β. specifically, of the understanding, the faculty and seat of intelligence (often so in Homer also (cf. Nägelsbach, Homer. Theol., p. 319f; Zezschwitz, Profangräcität as above with, pp. 25f, 50); cor domicilium sapientiae, Lactantius, de opif. dei c. 10, cf. Cicero, Tusc. 1, 9; לֵב, 1 Kings 10:2; Job 12:3; Job 17:4, etc.; (cf. Meyer on Ephesians 1:18 and references)): Romans 1:21; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 1:18 (Rec. διανοίας); 2 Peter 1:19; συνιέναι τῇ καρδία, Matthew 13:15; Acts 28:27; νόειν τῇ καρδία, John 12:40. of the dullness of a mind incapable of perceiving and understanding divine things the following expressions occur: ἐπαχύνθη καρδία, Matthew 13:15; Acts 28:27, (from Isaiah 6:10); πωρουν τήν καρδίαν, John 12:40; πεπωρωμένη καρδία, Mark 6:52; Mark 8:17; πώρωσις τῆς καρδίας, Mark 3:5; Ephesians 4:18; βραδύς τῇ καρδία, slow of heart, Luke 24:25; κάλυμμα ἐπί τήν καρδίαν κεῖται, 2 Corinthians 3:15.
γ. of the will and character: ἁγνίζειν καρδίας, James 4:8; καθαρίζειν τάς καρδίας, Acts 15:9 ῥερραντίσμενοι τάς καρδίας, Hebrews 10:22; καρδία εὐθεῖα (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32), Acts 8:21; πονηρά, Hebrews 3:12 (cf. 11. § 132, 24; Winer's Grammar, 194 (183)); ἀμετανόητος, Romans 2:5; γεγυμνασμενη πλεονεξίας, 2 Peter 2:14; στηρίζειν τάς καρδίας, 1 Thessalonians 3:13; βεβαιουν, in passive, Hebrews 13:9; σκληρύνειν, Hebrews 3:8; ἐπίνοια τῆς καρδίας, Acts 8:22; αἱ βουλαί τῶν καρδιῶν 1 Corinthians 4:5; προαιρεῖσθαι τῇ καρδία, 2 Corinthians 9:7; κρίνειν (to determine) and ἑδραῖος ἐν τῇ καρδία, 1 Corinthians 7:37.
δ. of the soul so far forth 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: καρδία καιομένη ἦν, of the soul as greatly and peculiarly moved, Luke 24:32; αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῶν καρδιῶν, Romans 1:24; στηρίζειν τάς καρδίας, of the cultivation of constancy and endurance, James 5:8. in reference to good-will and love: ἐήξειν τινα ἐν τῇ καρδία, to have one in one's heart, of constant remembrance and steadfast affection, Philippians 1:7 (`te tamen in toto pectore semper habet' Ovid. trist. 5, 4, 24); εἶναι ἐν τῇ καρδία τίνος, to be cherished in one's heart, to be loved by one perpetually and unalterably, 2 Corinthians 7:3; εὐδοκία τῆς καρδίας, Romans 10:1. in reference to joy and pleasure: ηὐφράνθη καρδία, Acts 2:26 (from Psalm 15:9 (Ps. 16:9)); χαρήσεται καρδία, John 16:22; ἀνήρ κατά τήν καρδίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, i. e. in whom God delights, Acts 13:22; of the pleasure given by food, Acts 14:17 ((Winer's Grammar, 156 (148) note) see 2 a. above). in reference to grief, pain, anguish, etc.: λύπη πεπλήρωκε τήν καρδίαν, John 16:6; ὀδύνη τῇ καρδία μου, Romans 9:2; καρδία ταράσσεται, John 14:1, 27; συνοχή καρδίας, 2 Corinthians 2:4; βάρειν τῆς καρδίας μερίμναις βιωτικαῖς, Luke 21:34 (cf. 2 a. above); διαπρίομαι τῇ καρδία, Acts 7:54; συντετριμμένος τήν καρδίαν, Luke 4:18 R L brackets; κατενύγησαν τῇ καρδία, Acts 2:37 (L T Tr WH τήν καρδίαν); συνθρύπτειν τήν καρδίαν, Acts 21:13.
ε. of a soul conscious of good or bad deeds (our conscience): 1 John 3:20f (Ecclesiastes 7:22; so לֵבָב, Job 27:6; καρδία πατασσει τινα, 1 Samuel 24:6; 2 Samuel 24:10).
3. used of the middle or central or inmost part of anything, even though inanimate: τῆς γῆς (which some understand of Hades, others of the sepulchre), Matthew 12:40 (τῆς θαλάσσης, Jonah 2:4 for לֵב; and for the same ἐν μέσῳ θαλάσσης, Exodus 15:8, 19; add Baruch 6: (Epistle Jer.) Baruch 6:19; τῆς κλεψυδρας, Aristotle, probl. 16, 8 (others, κώδια)). Cf. Beck, Biblical Seelenlehre, chapter iii. § 20ff, p. 64ff; Delitzsch, Biblical Psychologie (Leipz. 1861) iv. § 12, p. 248ff (also in Herzog 2, vi. 57ff); Oehler in Herzog vi., p. 15ff (also in his O. T. Theol. (edited by Day) § 71); Wittichen in Schenkel iii. 71f.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
15:8; 15:19
Deuteronomy
6:5; 8:17; 9:4; 26:16
Judges
19:5
1 Samuel
21:12; 24:6
2 Samuel
18:14; 24:10
1 Kings
10:2
2 Kings
9:24
Job
12:3; 17:4; 27:6
Psalms
7:10; 16:9; 101:5; 102:5; 103:15; 104:15; 119:34
Ecclesiastes
7:22
Isaiah
6:10
Jeremiah
17:10
Daniel
1:8
Jonah
2:4
Malachi
2:2
Matthew
5:8; 6:21; 9:4; 9:4; 12:40; 13:15; 13:15; 15:8; 15:18; 18:35; 22:37; 24:48
Mark
2:6; 2:6; 2:8; 2:8; 3:5; 4:16; 6:52; 7:6; 7:19; 8:17; 11:23; 12:30; 12:33
Luke
1:17; 1:51; 1:66; 2:19; 2:35; 2:51; 3:15; 4:18; 5:22; 5:22; 8:12; 8:15; 10:27; 12:45; 16:15; 21:14; 21:34; 21:34; 24:25; 24:32; 24:38; 24:38
John
12:40; 12:40; 13:2; 14:1; 14:27; 16:6; 16:22
Acts
2:26; 2:37; 4:32; 5:3; 5:4; 7:23; 7:51; 7:51; 7:54; 8:21; 8:22; 8:37; 13:22; 14:17; 14:17; 15:9; 16:14; 21:13; 28:27; 28:27
Romans
1:21; 1:24; 2:5; 2:15; 2:29; 6:17; 8:27; 9:2; 10:1; 10:6; 10:8; 10:9; 16:18
1 Corinthians
2:9; 4:5; 7:37; 14:25
2 Corinthians
2:4; 3:2; 3:15; 4:6; 5:12; 6:11; 6:11; 7:3; 9:7
Galatians
4:6
Ephesians
1:18; 1:18; 4:18; 5:19; 6:5
Philippians
1:7; 4:7
Colossians
3:22
1 Thessalonians
2:4; 2:17; 3:13
1 Timothy
1:5
2 Timothy
2:22
Hebrews
3:8; 3:12; 8:10; 10:16; 10:22; 10:22; 13:9
James
4:8; 5:5; 5:8
1 Peter
1:22; 3:4
2 Peter
1:19; 2:14
1 John
3:20
Revelation
2:23; 17:17; 18:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2588 matches the Greek καρδία (kardia),
which occurs 156 times in 149 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Mat 5:8–Jhn 14:1)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:8 -

“Blessed are the pure in heart,

for they will see God.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:28 -

“But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:21 -

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:4 -

Perceiving their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:29 -

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:34 -

“Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:40 -

“For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish[fn] three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:15 -

“For this people’s heart has grown callous;

their ears are hard of hearing,

and they have shut their eyes;

otherwise they might see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears, and

understand with their hearts,

and turn back —

and I would heal them.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:19 -

“When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:8 -

This people[fn] honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:18 -

“But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a person.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:19 -

“For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:35 -

“So also my heavenly Father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sister[fn] from your[fn] heart.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:37 -

He said to him, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:48 -

“But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,’

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:6 -

But some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts:  

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:8 -

Right away Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:5 -

After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:52 -

because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:6 -

He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:19 -

“For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated” (thus he declared all foods clean).

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“For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

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Aware of this, he said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact you have no bread? Don’t you understand or comprehend? Do you have hardened hearts?

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“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

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“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.[fn]

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“And to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding,[fn] and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:17 -

“And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:51 -

He has done a mighty deed with his arm;

he has scattered the proud

because of the thoughts of their hearts;

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:66 -

All who heard about him took it to heart, saying, “What then will this child become? ” For, indeed, the Lord’s hand was with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:19 -

But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:35 -

“and a sword will pierce your own soul ​— ​that the thoughts[fn] of many hearts may be revealed.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:51 -

Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:15 -

Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were questioning in their hearts whether John might be the Messiah.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:22 -

But perceiving their thoughts, Jesus replied to them, “Why are you thinking this in your hearts?[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:45 -

“A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart. An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:12 -

“The seed along the path are those who have heard and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:15 -

“But the seed in the good ground ​— ​these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, produce fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:47 -

But Jesus, knowing their inner thoughts,[fn] took a little child and had him stand next to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:27 -

He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:34 -

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:45 -

“But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:15 -

And he told them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:14 -

“Therefore make up your minds[fn] not to prepare your defense ahead of time,

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:34 -

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled[fn] from carousing,[fn] drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:25 -

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow[fn] to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:32 -

They said to each other, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:38 -

“Why are you troubled? ” he asked them. “And why do doubts arise in your hearts?

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:40 -

He has blinded their eyes

and hardened their hearts,

so that they would not see with their eyes

or understand with their hearts,

and turn,

and I would heal them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:2 -

Now when it was time for supper, the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son,[fn] to betray him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:1 -

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe[fn] in God; believe also in me.


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