Quick Definition
καρδία, ας, ἡ n.f. the heart, inner life, intention
Strong's Definition
prolonged from a primary kar (Latin cor, "heart"); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle
KJV Usage: (+ broken-)heart(-ed)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | καρδιογνώστης · σκληροκαρδία
26.3 · Psychological Faculties
heart, inner self, mind (a figurative extension of meaning of καρδία ‘heart,’ not occurring in the NT in its literal sense) the causative source of a person’s psychological life in its various aspects, but with special emphasis upon thoughts It is often possible to render καρδία[a] by a number of different terms depending upon the immediate context, for example, ‘mind,’ ‘intention,’ ‘purpose,’ or ‘desire.’ In many languages it is quite impossible to use a term meaning ‘heart,’ since such a term may not lend itself to figurative extension in meaning. Often the equivalent of καρδία is ‘liver,’ while in a number of languages it is ‘stomach’ or ‘bowels.’
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83.14 · Spacial Positions · Among, Between, In, Inside
depths, far inside (a figurative extension of meaning of καρδία ‘heart,’ not occurring in the NT in its literal sense) a location deep within a larger area
25.281 · Attitudes and Emotions · Sorrow, Regret
Collocation: κατανύσσομαι τὴν καρδίαν
to be greatly troubled, to be acutely distressed (an idiom, literally: to pierce the heart) to experience acute emotional distress, implying both concern and regret
25.166 · Attitudes and Emotions · Courage, Boldness
Collocation: πείθω τὴν καρδίαν
to be confident, to be assured (an idiom, literally: to convince the heart) to exhibit confidence and assurance in a situation which might otherwise cause dismay or fear
27.53 · Learn · Be Willing To Learn
Collocation: πηρόω τὴν καρδίαν
to close someone’s mind, to make someone unable to learn (an idiom, literally: to maim the heart) to cause someone to be unwilling to learn This expression is only found as a variant reading: πεπήρωκεν αὐτῶν τὴν καρδίαν ‘he has made their hearts unable to learn’ JHN 12:40 (apparatus).
25.53 · Attitudes and Emotions · Love, Affection, Compassion
Collocation: πλατύνω τὴν καρδίαν
to show affection for, to open one’s heart to (an idiom, literally: to broaden the heart) to make evident that one has affection for someone
30.29 · Think · To Think, Thought
Collocation: πληρόω τὴν καρδίαν · βάλλω εἰς τὴν καρδίαν
to make think, to fill the heart, to cause to decide (an idiom, literally: to fill the heart, and: to throw into the heart) to cause someone to think in a particular manner, often as a means of inducing some behavior
88.31 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Holy, Pure
Collocation: ῥαντίζομαι τὴν καρδίαν
to have one’s heart made pure, to be purified in one’s heart, to be pure (an idiom, literally: to be sprinkled in the heart) to be purified from moral failure
25.282 · Attitudes and Emotions · Sorrow, Regret
Collocation: συνθρύπτω τὴν καρδίαν
to make grieve, to break one’s heart (an idiom, literally: to break the heart) to cause great sorrow and grief It is rare that one can reproduce in a literal form the idiom συνθρύπτω τὴν καρδίαν. A frequent equivalent of ‘to break one’s heart’ is ‘to cause one to cry.’ In some languages one may even have ‘to cause one’s heart to cry.’
30.76 · Think · To Decide, To Conclude
Collocation: τίθημι ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ
to treasure up in the heart, to store in the mind as valuable, to make up one’s mind, to decide (an idiom, literally: to place in the heart) to store information in the mind, with the implication of its being valuable
1 Though in English the term heart focuses primarily upon the emotive aspects of life, in the Greek NT the emphasis is more upon the result of thought, particularly in view of the relationship of καρδία to the Hebrew term leb, which, though literally meaning heart, refers primarily to the mind.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καρδία, -as, 7, poetic κραδία and καρδίη (in the latter form almost always in Hom. [only at the beginning of a line in three places; everywhere else by metathesis xpadin; Ebeling, Lex. Hom. 5. v.}), [fr. a root signifying to quiver or palpitate; οἵ. Curtius § 39; Vaniéek p. 1097 (Etym. Magn. 491, 56 mapa τὸ κραδαίνω, τὸ σείω " ἀεικίνητος yap ἡ καρδία): allied with Lat. cor; Eng. heart]; Sept. for 37 and 239; the heart; 1. prop. 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: 2S. xviii. 14; 2 K. ix. 24; Tob. vi. 5 (4), 7 (6) sq.,17(16). Hence 2. univ. καρδία denotes the seat and centre of all physical and spiritual life; and a. the vigor and sense of physical life (Ps. ci. (cii.) 5; στήρισον τὴν καρδίαν σου Ψψωμῷ ἄρτου, Judg. xix. 5; to which add Ps. ciii. (civ.) 15): τρέφειν τὰς καρδίας, Jas. v.55; ἐμπιπλῶν τὰς καρδίας τροφῆς, Acts xiv. 17; βαρεῖν τ. καρδίας κραιπάλη καὶ μέθῃ, Lk. xxi. 34; [but see b. 6. below] ; b. the centre 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 Eng. heart, inner man, ete.]; a. univ.: Mt. v-8; vi. 21; Mk. vii.19; Lk.i.51; ii. 51; viii. 12,15; Acts v.3; Ro. x.9sq.; 1 Co. xiv. 25; 2 Co. vi.11; Eph. vi. 5; Col. iii. 22; 1 Pet. iii. 4, ete.; Plur.: Mt. ix.4; Mk. ii. 6,8; iv. 15[R L txt. Tr mrg.]; Lk.i. 17; ii. 35; v. 22; [xxiv.38 RGLmrg.; Acts vii. 51 LT Tr WHtxt.]; Ro. ii. 15; xvi. 18; 2 Co. iii. 2; Gal. iv. 6; Phil. iv. 7; Eph. v.19 Lehm.; Heb. viii. 10 [TWH mre. sing. ]; x. 16, ete. ἡ καρδία is distinguished fr. τὸ στόμα or fr. τὰ χείλεα: Mt. xv. 8,18 sq.; Mk. vii. 6; 2 Co. vi. 11; Ro. x. 8 sq.; fr. τὸ πρόσωπον : 2 Co. v. 12; 1 Th. ii. 17; meptroun καρδίας, Ro. ii. 29; ἀπερίτμητοι τῇ καρδίᾳ, Acts vii. 51 {Π| Ὁ Tr WH txt. -δίαις, WH mrg. gen. -δίας, cf. B. 170 (148)]. of things done from the hearti.e. cordially or sincerely, truly (without simulation or pretence) the foll. phrases are used : ἐκ καρδίας (Arstph. nub. 86), Ro. vi. 17; and L T Tr WH in 1 Pet. i. 22, where RG ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας, asin 1 Tim.i. 5; 2 Tim. ii. 22
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καρδία kardia 156x
the heart, regarded as the seat of feeling, impulse, affection, desire, Mt. 6:21; 22:37; Phil. 1:7; the heart, as the seat of intellect, Mt. 13:15; Rom. 1:21; the heart, as the inner and mental frame, Mt. 5:8; Lk. 16:15; 1 Pet. 3:4; the conscience, 1 Jn. 3:20, 21; the heart, the inner part, middle, center, Mt. 12:40
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
καρδία, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for לֵב, לֵבָב;]
the heart, the bodily organ which is regarded as the seat of life (II Ki 18:14, IV Ki 9:24, al.).
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, 317 f.; DGG, ii, 344a); of the seat of physical life (Jg 19:5, Ps 101 (102):5 103 (104):15): Ac 14:17, Ja 5:5;
of the seat of spiritual life: Mt 5:8, Mk 7:19, Lk 1:51, Ac 5:3, Ro 10:9, 10, Eph 6:5, al.; pl., Mt 9:4, Mk 2:6, al.; opp. to στόμα, χείλεα, πρόσωπον, Mt 15:8, Mk 7:6, Ro 10:8, 9, II Co 5:12; περιτομὴ καρδίας, Ro 2:29; ἐκ κ., Ro 6:17, I Pe 1:22; ἀπὸ τῶν κ., Mt 18:35; ἐν ὅλῃ (ἐξ ὅλης), Mt 22:37, Mk 12:30(LXX); γινώσκειν (ἐρευνᾶν, δοκιμάζειν) τὰς κ., Lk 16:15, Ro 8:27, I Th 2:4; to think, etc., ἐν τ. κ., Mt 9:4, Mk 2:6, Lk 12:45, Ro 10:6; συνιέναι (νοεῖν) τῇ κ., Mt 13:15, Jo 12:40; ἐπαχύνθη ἡ κ., Mt 13:15(LXX); πωροῦν τὴν κ., Jo 12:40; κ. εὐθεῖα, Ac 8:21; πονηρά, He 3:12; ἀμετανόητος, Ro 2:5; εἶναι (ἔχειν) ἐν τῇ κ., II Co 7:3, Phl 1:7; ὀδύνη τῇ κ., Ro 9:2.
Of the central or innermost part of anything (of the pith of wood, Arist.): τ. γῆς, Mt 12:40 (Cremer, 343 ff.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
καρδία (kardia) — heart. καρδί-α, ἡ, Ionic dialect καρδίη, Epic dialect κρᾰδίη (καρδίη in [Refs 8th c.BC+] only in καρδίῃ ἄλληκτον πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+] always in Trag., except in some dact. and anapaest meter verses, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect κάρζα [Refs] (but καρδία [Refs 7th c.BC+] κορζία (Paph.), [Refs 5th c.AD+]:—heart, ἐν δέ τέ οἱ κραδίη μεγάλα στέρνοισι πατάσσει [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πηδᾷ ἡ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]: especially as the seat of feeling and passion, as rage or anger, οἰδάνεται κραδίη Χόλῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; καρδίης πλέως full of heart, [Refs 7th c.BC+]; of fear or courage, κυνὸς ὄμματ᾽ ἔχων, κραδίην δ᾽ ἐλάφοιο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; [σφηκῶν] κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν νέον τίνα οἴει κ. ἴσχει; what do you think are his feelings? [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of sorrow or joy, ἐν κραδίῃ μέγα πένθος ἄεξε [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κελαινόχρως.. πάλλεταί μου κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of love, Sapph.[same place], etc.; ἐκ τῆς κ. φιλεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; φιλέειν ἀπὸ κ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+]. to speak freely, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λαλῆσαι ἐπὶ καρδίαν τινός speak kindly to.., [LXX]
2. inclination, desire, purpose, ἔμ᾽ ὀτρύνει κραδίη καὶ θυμός [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρόφρων κ. ἐν πάντεσσι πόνοισι[Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. mind, ὡς ἄνοον κραδίην ἔχες [Refs 8th c.BC+], compare 7.2; διαλογισμοὶ ἀναβαίνουσι ἐν τῇ κ. [NT]
II. cardiac orifice of the stomach, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. heart in wood, pith, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ={ἐντεριώνη},[Refs]
IV. metaphorically, κ. θαλάσσης depths of the sea, [LXX]
V. Κ. Λέοντος, name of the star [Refs 5th c.BC+] [kcirc]ṛd-, cf. Latin cor(d)-, Lithuanian širdis 'heart', etc.)