καρδία

καρδία, -ας, ἡ,

[in LXX chiefly for לֵבָב ,לֵב ;]

the heart,

1. the bodily organ which is regarded as the seat of life ( 2 Kong 18,14, 2 Kong 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 ( Dom 19,5, Psa.101 (102):5 103 (104):15): ApG 14,17, Jak 5,5;

(b) of the seat of spiritual life: Matt 5,8, Mark 7,19, Luk 1,51, ApG 5,3, Rom 10,9, 10 Ef 6,5, al.; pl., Matt 9,4, Mark 2,6, al.; opposite to στόμα, χείλεα, πρόσωπον, Matt 15,8, Mark 7,6, Rom 10,8, 9 2 Kor 5,12; περιτομὴ καρδίας, Rom 2,29 ἐκ κ., Rom 6,17, 1 Pet 1,22; ἀπὸ τῶν κ., Matt 18,35 ἐν ὅλῃ (ἐξ ὅλης), Matt 22,37, Mark 12,30" (LXX) ; γινώσκειν (ἐρευνᾶν, δοκιμάζειν) τὰς κ., Luk 16,15, Rom 8,27, 1 Thess 2,4; to think, etc., ἐν τ. κ., Matt 9,4, Mark 2,6, Luk 12,45, Rom 10,6; συνιέναι (νοεῖν) τῇ κ., Matt 13,15, Joh 12,40; ἐπαχύνθη ἡ κ., Matt 13,15 (LXX); πωροῦν τὴν κ., Joh 12,40 κ. εὐθεῖα, ApG 8,21 πονηρά, Hebr 3,12 ἀμετανόητος, Rom 2,5 εἶναι (ἔχειν) ἐν τῇ κ., 2 Kor 7,3, Fil 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, Matt 12,40 (Cremer, 343ff.).