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νεφρός

nephrós · G3510 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. heart, feelings, desires

    (Figurative extension of meaning of νεφρός ‘kidney,’ not occurring in its literal meaning in the NT) The psychological faculty of desire, intent, and feeling

    Examples

    Revelation 2:23 ‘And I will kill her children with plague, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

How it’s used In 1 role

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What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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In the other Testament 1 word
כִּלְיָה kilyâh · H3629 · kidney, kidneys > innermost being
Hebrew כִּלְיָה and Greek νεφρός are direct translation equivalents denoting kidneys, in both the literal anatomical sense and the shared figurative extension to the innermost mind or heart.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Heart, feelings, desires26.11
In Christ's message to the church in Thyatira, Revelation 2:23 states “‘And I will kill her children with plague, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds,’” where “hearts” renders this term, literally “kidneys,” used figuratively for the seat of inner feelings and desires.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νεφρου, ὁ, a kidney (Plato, Aristophanes); plural the kidneys, the loins, as the Sept.…
νεφρου, ὁ, a kidney (Plato, Aristophanes); plural the kidneys, the loins, as the Sept. for כְּלָיות, used of the inmost thoughts, feelings, purposes, of the soul: with the addition of καρδίας, Rev 2:23, with which cf. Ps 7:10; Jer 11:20; Jer 17:10; Wis. 1:6.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Psychological Faculties1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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