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kardia

kardia {kar-dee'-ah}
Greek: noun feminine

Possible Definitions:
1) 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
2) denotes the centre of all physical and spiritual life
2a) the vigour and sense of physical life
2b) 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, endeavours; of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence; of the will and character; of the soul so far as it is affected and stirred in a bad way or good, or of the soul as the seat of the sensibilities, affections, emotions, desires, appetites, passions
3) of the middle or central or inmost part of anything, even though inanimate

kardia {kar-dee'-ah}

Greek: noun feminine

prolonged from a primary kar (Latin, cor, "heart");

Translated as:

heart (159 times)

broken hearted (1 time)

Total: 160 times

I) the heart

Strong's Number 2588

TDNT - 3:605,415