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HEARKEN
1.
$
(
"
, 191), “to hear,” is rendered
“hearken” in the
KJV
and
RV
, in Mark 4:3; Acts 4:19; 7:2; 15:13; Jas. 2:5; in the
RV
only, in Acts 3:22, 23; 13:16 (
KJV
, “give audience”); 15:12, “hearkened” (
KJV
“gave
audience”). See
HEAR
, No. 1.
Note:
In Acts 12:13,
$ $
, lit., “to hearken,” with the idea of stillness, or
attention (
$
, “under,”
$
, “to hear”), signifies “to answer a knock at a door,”
RV
,
“to answer” (
KJV
, “to hearken”). See
OBEY
.
2.
$
(
#
"
, 1873), denotes “to hearken to,” 2 Cor. 6:2,
RV
(see
HEAR
, A,
No. 4).¶
3.
(
#
&
, 1801), “to give ear to, to hearken” (from , “in,” and
$
, “an ear”), is used in Acts 2:14, in Peter’s address to the men of Israel.¶
4.
(
$ !
, 3980), “to obey one in authority, be obedient”
(
, “to be persuaded,”
, “rule”), is translated “to hearken unto” in Acts
27:21, in Paul’s reminder to the shipwrecked mariners that they should have given heed
to his counsel. See
OBEY
.
HEART, HEARTILY
(
$ &
, 2588), “the heart” (Eng., “cardiac,” etc.), the chief organ of physical
life (“for the life of the flesh is in the blood,” Lev. 17:11), occupies the most important
place in the human system. By an easy transition the word came to stand for man’s entire
mental and moral activity, both the rational and the emotional elements. In other words,
the heart is used figuratively for the hidden springs of the personal life. “The Bible
describes human depravity as in the ‘heart,’ because sin is a principle which has its seat
in the center of man’s inward life, and then ‘defiles’ the whole circuit of his action, Matt.
15:19, 20. On the other hand, Scripture regards the heart as the sphere of Divine
influence, Rom. 2:15; Acts 15:9.… The heart, as lying deep within, contains ‘the hidden
man,’ 1 Pet. 3:4, the real man. It represents the true character but conceals it” (J. Laidlaw,
in
B
0
4 !
).
As to its usage in the NT it denotes (a) the seat of physical life, Acts 14:17; Jas. 5:5;
(b) the
seat of moral nature and spiritual life, the seat of grief, John 14:1; Rom. 9:2; 2 Cor.
2:4; joy, John 16:22; Eph. 5:19; the desires, Matt. 5:28; 2 Pet. 2:14; the affections, Luke
24:32; Acts 21:13; the perceptions, John 12:40; Eph. 4:18; the thoughts, Matt. 9:4; Heb.
4:12; the understanding, Matt. 13:15; Rom. 1:21; the reasoning powers, Mark 2:6; Luke
24:38; the imagination, Luke 1:51; conscience, Acts 2:37; 1 John 3:20; the intentions,
Heb. 4:12, cf. 1 Pet. 4:1; purpose, Acts 11:23; 2 Cor. 9:7; the will, Rom. 6:17; Col. 3:15;
faith, Mark 11:23; Rom. 10:10; Heb. 3:12.
The heart, in its moral significance in the OT, includes the emotions, the reason and
the will.