noun · masculine
kardiognōstos
Strong’sG2589
a knower of the inner life
stem kardiognōst-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† καρδιο-γνώστης, -ου, ὁ
(< καρδία, γνώστης),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2589 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
knower of hearts, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kardiognōstos1×καρδιογνώστης | kardiognōstois |
| object accusative | kardiognōston | kardiognōstoin |
| direct address vocative | kardiognōstor1×καρδιογνῶστα | kardiognōstoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kardiognōstou | kardiognōstoiu |
| to, for dative | kardiognōsto | kardiognōstoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kardiognōsto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kardiognōstos“who knows the heart”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 15:8kai tos kardiognōstos theos marturata autei dōarantos tem pneumem …And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the …
kardiognōstor“who know the hearts”direct addressvocative singular1×
Acts 1:24“who know the hearts”kai proseucherantois legala Sis kurior kardiognōstor pantoiu, anadeikasar hon eklegesa, ek houtoiu …And they prayed, “Lord, You know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two You have chosen