kardia · heart

What it means

kardia (καρδία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “heart”.

The center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.

• “Happy {are} the pure in heart” Matthew 5:8
• “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” Matthew 12:34Mark 7:21
• “With all your heart” Matthew 22:37
• Keeping, pondering, feeling in the heart Luke 2:19Luke 24:32
• “Believe in your heart” Romans 10:9

How we translate it

“Heart” 102 times, “hearts” 54. This edition keeps “heart” with no deviations, even where the sense is thinking or deciding; σκληροκαρδία is “hardness of heart”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• heart ×102
• hearts ×54

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×16
• Mark×11
• Luke×22
• John×7
• Acts×20
• Romans×15
• 1 Corinthians×5
• 2 Corinthians×11
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×6
• Philippians×2
• Colossians×5
• 1 Thessalonians×3
• 2 Thessalonians×2
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×11
• James×5
• 1 Peter×3
• 2 Peter×2
• 1 John×4
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 5:8

  Happy are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

• Matthew 5:28

  But I tell you that everyone who looks at a woman in order to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

• Matthew 6:21

  for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

• Matthew 9:4

  And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?

• Matthew 11:29

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

• Matthew 12:34

  Offspring of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

• Matthew 12:40

  For just as Jonah was in the belly of the sea monster three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

• Matthew 13:15

  For the heart of this people has grown dull, and with their ears they have heard with difficulty, and they have closed their eyes, so that they do not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.’

• Matthew 13:19

  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; this is the one sown along the path.

• Matthew 15:8

  ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me;

• Matthew 15:18

  But the things that come out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those defile the person.

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

• Matthew 18:35

  So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if you do not forgive each his brother from your hearts.”

• Matthew 22:37

  And he said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

• Matthew 24:48

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

• Mark 2:6

  Now some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

• Mark 2:8

  And at once Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they were reasoning like this within themselves, says to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

• Mark 3:5

  And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their heart, he says to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

• Mark 6:52

  for they had not understood about the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

• Mark 7:6

  But he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied well about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

• Mark 7:19

  because it does not go into his heart but into the stomach, and goes out into the latrine?” —declaring clean all foods.

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the heart of people, come the evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

• Mark 8:17

  And knowing this, he says to them, “Why are you discussing that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Do you have your heart hardened?

• Mark 11:23

  Truly I tell you that whoever 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 is happening, it will be done for him.

• Mark 12:30

  and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

• Mark 12:33

  and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

• Luke 1:17

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

• Luke 1:51

  He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their heart;

• Luke 1:66

  and all who heard laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was indeed with him.

• Luke 2:19

  But Mary was keeping all these words, pondering them in her heart.

• Luke 2:35

  —and a sword will pierce your own soul too —so that the thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

• Luke 2:51

  And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.

• Luke 3:15

  Now as the people were in expectation and all were wondering in their hearts about John, whether perhaps he might be the Messiah,

• Luke 5:22

  But Jesus, perceiving their reasonings, answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

• Luke 6:45

  The good person out of the good treasure of his heart brings out what is good, and the evil person out of the evil treasure brings out what is evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

• Luke 8:12

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

• Luke 8:15

  But that in the good soil, these are the ones who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold it fast and bear fruit with perseverance.

• Luke 9:47

  But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their heart, took a child and set it beside himself,

• Luke 10:27

  And he answered and said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

• Luke 12:34

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

And 116 more times.