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2.
$
(
)
, 5590), the soul, or life, is rendered “heart” in Eph. 6:6 (marg.,
“soul”), “doing the will of God from the heart.” In Col. 3:23, a form of the word
$
preceded by , from, lit., “from (the) soul,” is rendered “heartily.”
Notes:
(1) The
RV
, “heart” is substituted for
KJV
, “bowels,” in Col. 3:12; Philem. 7,
12, 20. (2) In 2 Cor. 3:3, the
RV
has “tables that are hearts of flesh,” for
KJV
, “fleshy
tables of the heart.” (3) In Eph. 1:18, the best mss. have
, “(the eyes of your)
heart”; some have
, “understanding” (
KJV
). (4) In Heb. 8:10 and 10:16, the
KJV
has “in their hearts” and “into their hearts”;
RV
, “on their heart.” (5) In Luke 21:26, where
there is no word for “hearts” in the original, the
RV
has “men fainting (for fear).” (6) In 2
Cor. 7:2, the verb
, to make room for, “receive” (
KJV
), is translated, or rather,
interpreted, “open your hearts,”
RV
, marg., “make room for (us).”
HEART (hardness of)
(
$
$ &
, 4641), “hardness of heart” (
, “hard,” and
), is used in Matt. 19:8; Mark 10:5; 16:14.¶ In the Sept., Deut. 10:16; Jer. 4:4.¶
HEART (knowing the)
(
$
0
, 2589), “a knower of hearts” (
and
, “to
know”), is used in Acts 1:24; 15:8.¶
HEAT
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
"
, 2742) denotes “a burning heat” (from
, “to burn”; cf. Eng.,
“caustic,” “cauterize”), Matt. 20:12; Luke 12:55 (
KJV
, “heat”),
RV
, in each place,
“scorching heat” (marg. “hot wind”); in Jas. 1:11, “a burning heat,”
KJV
,
RV
, “the
scorching wind” like the sirocco. Cf. Amos 4:9, where the Sept. has
$
, “burning”
(
$
, “fire”). See
BURNING
.
2.
$
(
, 2738), “heat” (akin to No. 1), signifies “the result of burning,” or
“the heat produced,” Rev. 7:16; 16:9;¶ cf.
$
, “to scorch,”
$
, “burning,”
$
, “to brand, sear.”
3.
(
!$
, 2329) denotes “warmth, heat,” Acts 28:3 (Eng., “thermal,” etc.).¶
B. Verb.
$
(
, 2741) was used as a medical term, of “a fever”; in the NT, “to burn
with great heat” (akin to A, No. 1), said of the future destruction of the natural elements,
2 Pet. 3:10, 12, “with fervent heat,” passive voice, lit.. “being burned.”¶
For
HEATHEN
see
GENTILES
HEAVEN, HEAVENLY (-IES)
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
'$
, 3772), probably akin to
$
, “to lift, to heave,” is used in
the NT (a) of “the aerial heavens,” e.g., Matt. 6:26; 8:20; Acts 10:12; 11:6 (
RV
, “heaven,”
in each place,
KJV
, “air”); Jas. 5:18; (b) “the sidereal,” e.g., Matt. 24:29, 35; Mark 13:25,