– For the Semites, the seat of thought, of knowledge:
Jr 24,7 : I will give them a heart able to know me and to know that I am the Lord.
Dan 2:30 : The Lord your God made his spirit obsessed and hardened his heart.
– In a figurative sense, this is where decisions, feelings, affections and love come from:
Deut 4:29 : You will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 6 :5: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deut 30:6 : The Lord […] will circumcise your heart and that of your offspring, so that you may love the Lord with all your heart.
1Sm 24,6 : And immediately afterwards his heart beat because he had dared to do that.
Jr 31,33 : I will instill my Law in him; I will engrave it on her heart.
Jr 32,39 : I will give them one heart and one destiny, so that they will always reverence me.
Ez 18,31 : Put away all your faults, to create a new heart in you.
Ez 36,25-26 : I will remove the heart of stone from your breasts and give you a heart of flesh.
– In many NT passages, heart is used with the same meanings. Here are just a few examples:
Mt 6:21 : For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mt 15:19 : Because evil thoughts come from the heart.
Mt 22,37-38 : You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind (Dt 6,5) .
Mk 8,17 : Because evil thoughts come from the heart.
Lc 2,51 : His mother kept all these things in her heart.
Jn 14,1 : Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.
Rom 2:15 : They show that the object of the Law is engraved in their hearts.
Rom 5 :5 : And hope does not disappoint. Because the love of God has been poured into our hearts.
2Cor 1,22 : He has marked us with his seal and given our hearts the pledge of the Spirit.
Gal 4 :6 : The proof that you are children is that God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts.
Eph 3:17 : May Christ dwell in your hearts by faith, rooted and strengthened in love.
