Words the Bible translates as mind
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 15 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.
- psuchēψυχήlife: the individual life that animates a creature, the life a person can keep, lose, risk, or give up.
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- the inner self: the whole person as the seat of feeling, desire, love, and will.
- person: a human being counted as an individual, a living soul, somebody.
- the self that outlasts the body: the life God can keep through death, save, or destroy.
- levלֵבthe heart: the hidden inner center of a person, where one thinks, decides, feels, and stands answerable to God
- ru'aḥרוּחַthe unseen moving power felt in wind and breath: the air that blows, the breath that gives life, the inner drive of a person, and the empowering presence of God.
- dianoiaδιάνοιαthe mind: a person's power to understand and think, bound up with the heart rather than standing apart from it as pure intellect
- nousνοῦςthe mind: a person's capacity to think, understand, and weigh things, together with the settled outlook and judgments that capacity produces
- gnōmēγνώμηa made-up mind: the settled judgment someone has reached about a matter, and so what they advise, resolve, or agree to
- nephrosνεφρόςmindnot studied yet
- 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
- ru'aḥרוּחַthe unseen power that moves: the wind outside a person, and inside a person the spirit that carries insight, ability, and temper.
- yetserיֵצֶרsomething formed: a shaped object, or the human creature God shaped from dust
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- the bent of the heart: what a person forms inside, their settled disposition, plans, or intentions
- noēmaνόημαwhat a person has in mind: the thoughts someone forms, and so also the thinking mind that forms them.
- 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
- balבָּלmindnot studied yet
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