HEART OF THE MATTER -
DEFINITIONS
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WEBSTER’S 1828 DICTIONARY DEFINITION
HEART, n. L. cor, cordis,
and allied to Eng.core, or named from motion,
pulsation.
1. A muscular viscus,
which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in
the thorax. From this organ all the arteries arise, and in it all the veins
terminate. By its alternate dilatation and contraction, the blood is received
from the veins, and returned through the arteries, by which means the
circulation is carried on and life preserved.
2. The
inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; as the heart of a
country, kingdom or empire; the heart of a town; the heart of a tree.
3. The
chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.
4. The
seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage,
pleasure &c.
The heart is deceitful above all things. Every
imagination of the thoughts of the heart is evil continually. We read of an
honest and good heart, and an evil heart of unbelief, a willing heart, a heavy
heart, sorrow of heart, a hard heart, a proud heart, a
pure heart. The heart faints in adversity, or under discouragement, that is,
courage fails; the heart is deceived, enlarged, reproved, lifted up, fixed,
established, moved, &c.
5. By a
metonymy, heart is used for an affection or passion, and particularly for love.
The king's heart was towards Absalom. 2 Samuel 14.
6. The
seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart. We read of men wise in
heart, and slow of heart.
7. The
seat of the will; hence, secret purposes, intentions or designs. There are many
devices in a man's heart. The heart of kings is unsearchable. The Lord tries
and searches the heart. David had it in his heart to build a house of rest for
the ark.
Sometimes
heart is used for the will, or determined purpose.
The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to
do evil. Ecclesiastes 8.
8. Person; character; used with respect
to courage or kindess.
Cheerly, my hearts.
9. Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to
give heart; to recover heart.
10. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.
Michal saw king David leaping and dancing
before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. 2 Samuel 6.
11. Disposition of mind.
He had a
heart to do well.
12. Secret meaning; real intention.
And then
show you the heart of my message.
13. Conscience, or sense of
good or ill.
Every
man's heart and conscience--doth either like or disallow it.
14. Strength;
power of producing; vigor; fertility. Keep the land in heart.
That the spent earth may gather heart again.
15. The utmost degree.
This gay
charm--hath beguiled me
To the very heart of loss.
To get or learn by heart, to commit to memory; to learn so perfectly
as to be able to repeat without a copy.
To take to heart, to be much affected; also, to be zealous, ardent or
solicitous about a thing; to have concern.
To lay to heart, is used nearly in the sense of the foregoing.
To set the heart on, to fix the desires on; to be very desirous of
obtaining or keeping; to be very fond of.
To set
the heart at rest, to make one's self quiet; to be
tranquil or easy in mind.
To find in the heart, to be willing or disposed.
I find it
in my heart to ask your pardon.
For my heart, for tenderness or affection.
I could
not for my heart refuse his request.
Or, this
phrase may signify, for my life; if my life was at stake.
I could
not get him for my heart to do it.
To speak to one's heart, in Scripture, to speak kindly
to; to comfort; to encourage.
To have in the heart, to purpose; to have design or intention.
A hard heart, cruelty; want of sensibility.
THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION
OF THE HEART
The heart is that faculty
within a man or woman which is the center or seat
of our
1 thoughts, 2 meditations, 3 considerations,
4 perceptions,
5 concepts,6 reasoning, 7 understanding, 8 beliefs, 9 imaginations,
10 fears, 11 doubts, 12 counsels, 13 intents, 14 desires (affections -
emotions),
and 15 pride. The heart is where the 16 will resides and operates.
(1. Job 17:11; 2. Psalms 19:14; 3. Deuteronomy
8:5; 4. Deuteronomy 29:4; 5.
Acts 5:4; 6. Mark 2:8; 7. Proverbs 8:5; 8. Romans 10:9-10;
9. Genesis 6:5; 10. Isaiah
35:4, Luke 21:26; 11. Mark 11:23; 12. Jeremiah 7:24; 13. Hebrews
4:12; 14. Psalms
37:4, Colossians 3:2;
15.
2 Chronicles 32:26; 16. Psalms 101:2, Psalms 119:69,
Psalms 119:145, Isaiah 32:6, 1 Corinthians 7:37, Ephesians 6:6.)
WEBSTER’S 1828 DICTIONARY
DEFINITION
CONSCIENCE, n. L., to know, to be privy to.
1.
Internal or self-knowledge, or judgment of right and wrong; or the faculty,
power or principle within us, which decides on the lawfulness or unlawfulness
of our own actions and affections, and instantly approves or condemns them.
Conscience is called by some writers the moral sense, and considered as an
original faculty of our nature. Others question the propriety of considering
conscience as a distinct faculty or principle. The consider it rather as the
general principle of moral approbation or disapprobation, applied to ones own
conduct and affections; alledging that our notions of
right and wrong are not to be deduced from a single principle or faculty, but
from various powers of the understanding and will.
Being convicted by their own conscience, they went out
one by one. John 8.
The
conscience manifests itself in the feeling of obligation we experience, which
precedes, attends and follows our actions.
Conscience
is first occupied in ascertaining our duty, before we proceed to action; then
in judging of our actions when performed.
2. The
estimate or determination of conscience; justice; honesty.
What you
require cannot, in conscience, be deferred.
3. Real
sentiment; private thought; truth; as, do you in conscience believe the story?
4.
Consciousness; knowledge of our own actions or thought.
The
sweetest cordial we receive at last, is conscience of our virtuous actions
past.
This
primary sense of the word is nearly, perhaps wholly obsolete.
5.
Knowledge of the actions of others.
6. In
ludicrous language, reason or reasonableness.
Half a
dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require.
To make
conscience or a matter of conscience, is to act
according to the dictates of conscience, or to scruple to act contrary to its
dictates.
Court of
conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts in
THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION
OF THE CONSCIENCE
The conscience
is that faculty within a man or woman wherein resides the awareness of
right and wrong (good and evil), and which influences the heart and mind
as to the lawfulness or unlawfulness
of our own affections & actions. According to the Scriptures the human
heart and conscience are separate and distinct from
each other in purpose and in operation.
WEBSTER’S 1828 DICTIONARY
DEFINITION
MIND, n. L. reminiscor; L. mens;
Gr. memory, mention, to remember, mind, ardor of mind, vehemence; anger. Mind signifies properly intention, a reaching or
inclining forward to an object, from the primary sense of extending, stretching
or inclining, or advancing eagerly, pushing or setting forward, whence the
Greek sense of the word, in analogy with the Teutonic mod, moed,
muth, mind, courage, spirit, mettle. So L. animus, animosus.
1.
Intention; purpose; design.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination; how much
more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind. Proverbs 21.
2.
Inclination; will; desire; a sense much used, but expressing less than settled
purpose; as in the common phrases, "I wish to know your mind;"
"let me know your mind;" "he had a mind to go;" "he
has a partner to his mind."
3.
Opinion; as, to express one's mind. We are of one mind.
4.
Memory; remembrance; as, to put one in mind; to call to mind; the fact is out
of my mind; time out of mind. From the operations of the intellect in man,this word came to signify.
5. The intellectual or intelligent
power in man; the understanding; the power that conceives, judges or reasons.
I fear I
am not in my perfect mind.
So we
speak of a sound mind, a disordered mind, a weak mind, a strong mind, with
reference to the active powers of the understanding; and in a passive sense, it
denotes capacity, as when we say, the mind cannot comprehend a subject.
6. The
heart or seat of affection.
Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah. Genesis 26.
7. The
will and affection; as readiness of mind. Acts 17.
8. The implanted
principle of grace. Romans 7.
MIND, v.t. To attend to;
to fix the thoughts on; to regard with attention.
Cease to
request me; let us mind our way.
Mind not high things. Romans 12.
1. To
attend to or regard with submission; to obey. His father told him to desist,
but he would not mind him.
2. To put
in mind; to remind.
3. To
intend; to mean.
MIND, v.i. To be inclined or disposed to
incline.
When one of them mindeth to go into
rebellion.
THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION
OF THE MIND
The mind
is that faculty within a man or woman wherein resides our intellect or intelligence. In the
Bible the mind is separate and distinct from the heart in purpose, though similar in function and operation.
WEBSTER’S 1828 DICTIONARY
DEFINITION
SPIR'IT, n. L. spiritus, from spiro,
to breathe, to blow. The
primary sense is to rush or drive.
1.
Primarily, wind; air in motion; hence, breath. All
bodies have spirits and pneumatical parts within
them. This sense is now unusual.
2. Animal excitement, or the effect of it; life; ardor; fire; courage;
elevation or vehemence of mind. The troops attacked the enemy with great
spirit. The young man has the spirit of youth. He speaks or act with spirit. Spirits, in the plural, is used in nearly a
like sense. The troops began to recover their spirits.
3. Vigor
of intellect; genius. His wit, his beauty and his spirit.
The noblest spirit or genius cannot deserve enough of mankind to pretend to the
esteem of heroic virtue.
4.
Temper; disposition of mind, habitual or temporary; as a man of a generous
spirit, or of a revengeful spirit; the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. Let
us go to the house of God in the spirit of prayer.
5. The
soul of man; the intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of human beings. See
Soul. the spirit shall return to God that gave it. Ecclesiastes
12.
6. An
immaterial intelligent substance. Spirit is a substance in which thinking,
knowing, doubting, and a power of moving do subsist. Hence,
7. An
immaterial intelligent being. By which he went and preached to the spirit in
prison. I Peter 3. God is a spirit. John 4.
8. Turn
of mind; temper; occasions; state of the mind. A perfect judge will read each
work of wit, with the same spirit that its author writ.
9. Powers
of mind distinct from the body. In spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico, the
seat of Montezume.
10.
Sentiment; perception. You spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
11. Eager
desire; disposition of mind excited and directed to a particular object. God
has made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.
12. A
person of activity; a man of life, vigor or enterprise. The watery kingdom is
no bar to stop the foreign spirits, but they come.
13.
Persons distinguished by qualities of the mind. Such spirits as he desired to
please, such would I choose for my judges.
14.
Excitement of mind; animation; cheerfulness; usually in the plural. We found
our friend in very good spirits. He has a great flow of spirits. -To sing thy
praise, would heaven my breath prolong, Infusing
spirits worthy such a song.
15. Life
or strength of resemblance; essential qualities; as, to set off the face in its
true spirit. The copy has not the spirit of the original.
16.
Something eminently pure and refined. Nor doth the eye
itself, that most pure spirit of sense, behold itself.
17. That
which hath power or energy; the quality of any substance which manifest life,
activity, or the power of strongly affecting other bodies; as the spirit of
wine or of any liquor.
18. A
strong, pungent or stimulation liquor, usually obtained by distillation, as
rum, brandy, gin, whiskey. In
19. An
apparition; a ghost.
20. The
renewed nature of man. Matthew 26. Galatians 5.
21. The
influences of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 22.
THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION
OF THE SPIRIT
The spirit
(pertaining only to mankind) is that substance [which is given by God]
within a man or woman wherein our very life resides i.e. the spirit is life
itself.
In the
Bible the spirit is separate and distinct from the heart and the soul in
purpose, though it may have some similar characteristics.
WEBSTER’S 1828 DICTIONARY
DEFINITION
SOUL, n.
1. The
spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from
brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which
renders him a subject of moral government. The immortality of the soul is a
fundamental article of the Christian system. Such is the nature of the human
soul that it must have a God, an object of supreme affection.
2. The
understanding; the intellectual principle. The eyes of our soul then only begin
to see, when our bodily eye are closing.
3. Vital
principle. Thou son, of this great world both eye and soul.
4.
Spirit; essence; chief part; as charity, the soul of all the virtues. Emotion
is the soul of eloquence.
5. Life;
animation principle or part; as, an able commander is the soul of an army.
6.
Internal power. There is some soul of goodness in things evil.
7. A
human being; a person. There was no a soul present. In
8. Animal
life. To deliver their soul from death, and to
keep them alive in famine.
Psalms 33:19
9. Active
power. And heaven would fly before the driving soul.
10.
Spirit; courage; fire; grandeur of mind. That he wants caution he must needs
confess, but not a soul to give our arms success.
11.
Generosity; nobleness of mind; a colloquial use.
12. An
intelligent being. Every soul in heaven shall bend the knee.
13.
Heart; affection. The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David. I
Samuel 18.
14. In
Scripture, appetite; as the full soul; the hungry soul. Proverbs
27. Job 33.
15. A
familiar compellation of a person, but often expressing some qualities of the
mind; as alas, poor soul; he was a good soul.
THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION
OF THE SOUL
According
to the Scriptures the soul is that substance within a man or a woman,
which is
created at the moment of birth, (when the body
receives the spirit)
and
which is the very essence of their being. The soul
within a man or woman is that substance that distinguishes mankind from
all of the other living creatures in
God’s creation. The soul is that substance which separates an individual
from every other individual and makes them unique.