kardiva kardiva, kardiva", hJ, poetic kradiva and kardih (in the latter form almost always in Homer (only at the beginning of a line in three places; everywhere else by metathesis kradih; Ebeling, Lex. Homer, under the word)) (from a root signifying to quiver or palpitate; cf. Cartius sec. 39; Vanicek, p. 1097 (Etymologicum Magnum 491, 56 parav tov kradaivnw, tov seivw. ajeikinhto" gavr hJ kardiva); allied with Latin cor; English heart); the Septuagint for ble and bb;le; the heart;1. properly, that organ in the animal body which is the center of the circulation of the blood, and hence, was regarded as the seat of physical life: ; ; (4), 7f (6f), 17 (16). Hence,2. universally, kardiva denotes the seat and center of all physical and spiritual life; and a. the vigor and sense of physical life ( (); sthvrison thvn kardivan sou ywmw'/ a[rtou, ; to which add ()): trevfein tav" kardiva", ; ejmpiplw'n tav" kardiva" trofh'", ; bavrein th'" kardiva" kraipavlh/ kaiv mevqh, ; (but see b. d. below); b. the center and seat of spiritual life, "the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavors" (so in English heart, inner man, etc.); a. universally: ; ; ; ; ; ,; ; f; ; ; ; ; , etc.; plural: ; ,; (R L text Tr marginal reading); ; ; ; ( R G L marginal reading; L T Tr WH text); ; ; ; ; ; Lachmann; (T WH marginal reading singular); , etc. hJ kardiva is distinguished from tov stovma or from tav ceilea: ,f; ; ; f; from tov provswpon: ; ; peritomhv kardiva", ; ajperivtmhtoi th'/ kardiva, (L T Tr WH text kardivai", WH marginal reading genitive kardiva", cf. Buttmann, 170 (148)). of things done from the heart i. e. cordially or sincerely, truly (without simulation or pretence) the following phrases are used: ejk kardiva" (Aristophanes nub. 86), ; and L T Tr WH in , where R G ejk kaqara'" kardiva", as in ; ; ajpov tw'n kardiw'n, <<ref