2001 Translation

KARDIAN, kardian

Sounds Like: kar-DEE-an

Translations: heart, a heart

From the root: ΚΑΡΔΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the physical organ, the heart, but more commonly in Koine Greek, it signifies the center of a person's being, including their thoughts, emotions, will, and conscience. It is often used metaphorically to represent the inner self or the core of one's personality. It can be used in contexts like 'to set in one's heart' meaning to ponder or decide, or 'to speak to one's heart' meaning to comfort or encourage.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2588 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:17

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 4:8, 9:1, 9:5, 12:2, 14:9

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:21, 9:17, 10:21, 12:4

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 18:1, 18:10, 18:17, 51:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Deuteronomy — 29:3, 30:1, 30:6
• Judges — 5:15
• 1 Chronicles — 17:19
• 2 Esdras — 12:12, 17:5, 19:8
• Esther — 4:17s
• Tobit — 6:4, 6:5, 6:17, 8:2
• Psalms — 4:8, 16:3, 18:9, 19:5, 25:2, 33:19, 50:12, 50:19, 60:3, 72:13, 77:8, 84:9, 103:15, 104:25, 118:32, 118:36, 118:112, 138:23, 140:4
• Proverbs — 2:2, 4:23, 8:5, 12:25, 15:30, 20:9, 22:17, 22:18, 23:12, 23:15, 23:26, 25:20, 26:23, 27:23, 28:14
• Ecclesiastes — 1:13, 1:17, 2:10, 7:2, 7:7, 7:21, 7:22, 8:9, 8:16, 9:1
• Song of Solomon — 8:6
• Job — 11:13, 17:4, 23:16
• Sirach — 1:12, 2:2, 4:3, 6:37, 8:19, 17:6, 22:19, 30:23, 34:6, 38:10, 38:20, 38:26, 38:27, 38:28, 38:30, 39:5, 40:20, 40:26, 42:18, 48:10, 49:3, 50:28, 51:20
• Isaiah — 40:2, 46:12, 57:11, 57:15, 65:16, 65:17
• Jeremiah — 3:15, 3:16, 12:3, 24:7, 28:50, 37:21, 38:21, 38:33, 39:35, 39:39, 39:40, 51:21
• Lamentations — 2:19
• Malachi — 2:2, 3:23
• Mark — 7:19
• John — 12:40, 13:2, 16:6
• Acts of the Apostles — 5:3, 7:23, 13:22, 16:14, 21:13
• Romans — 2:5
• 1 Corinthians — 2:9
• 2 Corinthians — 3:15
• Hebrews — 13:9
• James — 1:26
• 2 Peter — 2:14
• Epistle of Barnabas — 4:8, 12:2, 14:9
• Shepherd of Hermas — 1:8, 2:4, 15:2, 15:6, 17:7, 23:4, 29:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 4:193

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 53:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 25:2, 50:3, 69:4, 72:1, 80:4, 81:1

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 2:3

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 11:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 50:21
• Exodus — 4:21, 7:3, 8:32, 9:12, 9:14, 9:34, 10:1, 10:20, 10:27, 11:10, 14:4, 14:8, 14:17
• Leviticus — 26:36
• Numbers — 32:9
• Deuteronomy — 1:28, 2:30, 5:29, 11:18, 15:7, 20:8, 28:65, 29:4, 30:1, 30:6
• Joshua — 11:20, 14:8, 24:23
• Judges — 1:15, 5:15, 16:17, 16:18, 19:3, 19:5, 19:8, 19:22
• Ruth — 2:13
• 1 Samuel — 6:6, 9:20, 10:9, 13:14, 16:7, 25:25
• 2 Samuel — 7:21, 7:27, 13:20, 13:33, 15:6, 18:3, 19:7, 19:14, 19:19
• 1 Kings — 3:9, 3:12, 8:18, 8:39, 11:4, 11:9, 11:10, 18:37
• 2 Kings — 12:4
• 1 Chronicles — 17:19, 28:2, 29:19
• 2 Chronicles — 6:7, 6:8, 6:30, 6:37, 11:16, 12:14, 19:3, 20:33, 24:4, 30:12, 30:22, 32:6, 36:13
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:46, 8:25
• Nehemiah — 2:12, 7:5, 9:8
• Esther — 4:17
• Tobit — 6:5, 6:5, 6:6, 6:17, 8:2, 8:2
• 1 Maccabees — 12:28
• 2 Maccabees — 1:3, 1:4, 3:17
• Psalms — 4:8, 16:3, 18:9, 19:5, 25:2, 33:19, 36:15, 50:12, 50:19, 60:3, 61:11, 72:13, 84:9, 103:15, 104:25, 118:32, 118:36, 118:112, 138:23, 140:4, 146:3
• Proverbs — 2:2, 4:4, 4:23, 8:5, 12:25, 16:2, 17:10, 20:9, 22:17, 22:18, 23:12, 23:15, 23:26, 25:20, 26:23, 27:23, 28:14
• Ecclesiastes — 1:13, 1:17, 2:10, 2:20, 7:3, 7:8, 7:22, 8:9, 8:16, 8:17
• Song of Solomon — 8:6
• Job — 11:13, 17:4, 23:16
• Sirach — 1:12, 2:2, 4:3, 6:37, 8:19, 17:6, 22:19, 30:23, 31:6, 38:10, 38:20, 38:26, 38:27, 38:28, 38:30, 39:5, 40:20, 40:26, 42:18, 48:10, 49:3, 50:28, 51:20
• Isaiah — 40:2, 46:12, 57:11, 57:15, 61:1, 65:16, 65:17
• Jeremiah — 3:15, 3:16, 4:14, 12:3, 24:7, 28:50, 37:21, 38:21, 39:35, 39:39, 39:40, 51:21
• Lamentations — 2:19, 3:21
• Baruch — 2:30, 2:31, 3:7
• Ezekiel — 3:10, 11:19, 11:21, 13:22, 14:4, 14:7, 18:31, 28:2, 28:6, 32:9, 36:26, 38:10, 40:4, 44:5
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 1:8, 5:22, 10:12, 13:56
• Hosea — 2:14, 7:11
• Amos — 2:16
• Zechariah — 7:12
• Malachi — 2:2, 4:5

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 4 — 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 2:2
• Mandate 5 — 2:2
• Mandate 6 — 2:3, 2:4, 2:5, 2:7
• Mandate 9 — 1:4, 1:7
• Mandate 10 — 1:6, 2:3, 3:3
• Mandate 12 — 3:4, 3:5, 4:4, 4:5

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 1 — 1:7
• Parable 5 — 3:6, 7:2
• Parable 6 — 3:5, 3:6, 5:2
• Parable 7 — 1:5
• Parable 8 — 6:2
• Parable 9 — 28:4, 29:1

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 1:8, 2:4
• Vision 3 — 7:2, 7:6, 9:7, 10:9
• Vision 4 — 2:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 7:19, 8:17
• John — 12:40, 13:2, 16:6
• Acts — 2:37, 5:3, 7:23, 13:22, 16:14, 21:13
• Romans — 2:5
• 1 Corinthians — 2:9
• 2 Corinthians — 3:15
• Hebrews — 8:10, 13:9
• James — 1:26
• 2 Peter — 2:14

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΡΔΙΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΚΑΡΔΙΟΣ — heartless, senseless, foolish, without understanding
• ΑΚΑΡΔΙΟΣ — heartless, senseless, foolish, without understanding, an understanding-less
• ΑΡΔΙΑ — heart, a heart, mind, inner self, center, middle
• ΑΡΔΙΑΝ — heart, a heart, mind, inner self, thoughts, will, understanding, conscience
• ΔΙΑΚΑΡΔΙΟΝ — heart, innermost being, mind, thoughts
• ΚΑΡ — heart, a heart, mind, soul, inner self, thoughts, feelings, conscience
• ΚΑΡ? — heart, a heart, mind, inner self, conscience, will, affections, thoughts
• ΚΑΡΔΙ — heart, a heart, of heart, to heart, hearts
• ΚΑΡΔΙΑ — heart, a heart, mind, inner self, center
• ΚΑΡΔΙΑʼ — heart, a heart, mind, soul, inner self, understanding, conscience, will, affections
• ΚΑΡΔΙΑΙ — hearts, a heart
• ΚΑΡΔΙΑΙΣ — (to) hearts, (in) hearts, (with) hearts
• ΚΑΡΔΙΑΣ — of heart, of a heart, of mind, of soul, of inner self, of conscience, of courage, of will
• ΚΑΡΔΙΕΣ — hearts, the hearts
• ΚΑΡΔΙΟΝ — heart, a heart, mind, inner self, thoughts, feelings, conscience
• ΚΑΡΔΙΟΩ — to harden the heart, to become hardened, to be hardened
• ΚΑΡΔΙΩΝ — of hearts, of a heart
• ΚΑΡΟΙΑ — heart, a heart, mind, soul, inner self, understanding, will, desire, conscience
• ΚΑΡΟΙΑΣ — of heart, of a heart, of the heart, of inner life, of mind, of soul

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