Words the Bible translates as heart
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 11 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kardiaκαρδίαthe heart: the hidden center of the whole inner person, where a human being thinks, decides, feels, and stands before God.
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- the center or deep interior of a place or thing.
- levלֵבthe heart: the hidden inner center of a person, where one thinks, decides, feels, and stands answerable to God
- levavלֵבָבheartnot studied yet
- qerevקֶרֶבthe inside of something: its interior, whether a body's organs, a person's hidden self, or the space within a group or place
- me'ehמֵעֶהthe soft inner organs of the body (the guts, belly, and womb), and by extension the innermost self, felt as the place where deep emotion churns
- kilyahכִּלְיָהthe kidney: the bodily organ, most often the fat-encased pair cut out and burned in sacrifice
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- the innermost self: the hidden inner core of a person, the seat of deep feeling, conscience, and moral desire, open only to God
- splagchnonσπλάγχνονthe seat of a person's deepest feelings; heartfelt affection, tender compassion, or mercy
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- the inner organs of the body; the intestines or entrails
- levavלְבַבthe heart: a person's inner self, above all the mind that thinks and knows, and the self that either lifts itself up in pride or is brought low
- libbahלִבָּהthe heart: the hidden inner self where a person thinks, wants, and decides, named by the rarer of Hebrew's two words for heart and used mostly of the hearts God searches
- levלֵבheartnot studied yet
- sekhviשֶׂכְוִיheartnot studied yet
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