heart
part of speech
noun (a heart, hearts)
meaning for a pupil
1) The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body. tree →
2) Your feelings, kindness or love: a kind heart, a broken heart. tree →
3) The centre or most important part: the heart of the city, the heart of the problem. tree →
4) The shape ♥, and one of the four suits in playing cards (hearts). tree →
5) Courage: «Don't lose heart». tree →
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 →
- Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. (Torah DEU.10.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. (Torah EXO.10.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- Why doth thy heart carry thee away? (Writings JOB.15.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- For He knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Writings PSA.44.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart. (Prophets HOS.4.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Your heart pumps blood all day and all night. tree →
- My heart beats fast after I run. tree →
- We learned the poem by heart. tree →
- She has a kind heart. tree →
- The museum is in the heart of the city. tree →
- I drew a red heart on the card. tree →
- He played the queen of hearts. tree →
- Don't lose heart — try again. tree →
- And now my heart is broken." tree →
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.
- Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.
- In the simplicity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.'
- And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
- And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «heart» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.