Template:2588
2588 καρδία kardia [kar-dee’-ah] prolonged from a primary kar (Latin, cor, "heart"); n f; TDNT- 3:605,415; [{See TDNT 359 }] AV-heart 159, broken hearted + 4937 1; 160
- 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
- 1b1) the vigour and sense of physical life
- 1b2) the centre and seat of spiritual life
- 1b2a) the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavours
- 1b2b) of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence
- 1b2c) of the will and character
- 1b2d) 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