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hearts

Meaning of “hearts”

The inward lives of persons: their thoughts, understanding, conscience, affections, desires, purposes, will, courage, or disposition.

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113 occurrences111 verses39 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 18:5

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1 Samuel 6:6
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 6:6 · retained source text

Wherefore then doe yee harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people goe, and they departed?

1611 marginal noteOr, reprochfully.

1611 marginal noteHeb. them.

1611 marginal noteExod. 12.31.

1 Samuel 7:3
¶ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 7:3 · retained source text

¶ And Samuel spake vnto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye doe returne vnto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods, and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts vnto the LORD, and serue him onely: & he will deliuer you out of the hand of the Philistines.

1611 marginal noteIosh. 14.15,23.

1611 marginal noteIudg. 2.13.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 6.4. matt. 4.10. luke 4.8.

1 Samuel 10:26
¶ And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 10:26 · retained source text

¶ And Saul also went home to Gibeah, and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.

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