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# heart

«heart» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a heart, hearts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#m1)

2) Your feelings, kindness or love: a kind heart, a broken heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#m2)

3) The centre or most important part: the heart of the city, the heart of the problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#m3)

4) The shape ♥, and one of the four suits in playing cards (hearts). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#m4)

5) Courage: «Don't lose heart». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, the heart is the center of thinking, feeling and choosing, not only feelings. A heart can be "hardened" or "circumcised." Interpretation: The Shema says to love God with "all your heart." The rabbis say this means with both urges, good and bad. "Circumcise the foreskin of your heart" is read as a call to remove whatever blocks a person from God. In the primary lessons: In science: the heart is a muscle about the size of your fist; it beats about 70–100 times a minute at rest in children, faster when you run; exercise keeps it healthy; you feel your pulse at your wrist. In stories and feelings: heart stands for love and feelings. Phrases: by heart (from memory), heartbeat, heart rate, learn by heart, break someone's heart, heart of gold, with all my heart, take heart, lose heart.

### examples

- Thou shalt be whole-hearted with the LORD thy God. (Torah DEU.18.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x1)
- Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. (Torah DEU.10.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x2)
- But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. (Torah EXO.10.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x3)
- Why doth thy heart carry thee away? (Writings JOB.15.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x4)
- For He knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Writings PSA.44.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x5)
- Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart. (Prophets HOS.4.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x6)
- Your heart pumps blood all day and all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x7)
- My heart beats fast after I run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x8)
- We learned the poem by heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x9)
- She has a kind heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x10)
- The museum is in the heart of the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x11)
- I drew a red heart on the card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x12)
- He played the queen of hearts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x13)
- Don't lose heart — try again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x14)
- And now my heart is broken." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/#x15)

### note

Countable: hearts. Spelling «hear + t»; say it like «art» with an h. «Learn by heart» means learn so well you can say it without looking. The heart shape ♥ does not look like a real heart. Myth: the heart is not on the far left — it is near the middle, leaning left.

### In the corpora

- [And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.154/)
- [Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.158/)
- [In the simplicity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.526/)
- [And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.180/)
- [And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.190/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.