Inward Part
Inward Part
A symbolic expression in the Old Testament represented by three Hebrew words: , hedher, chamber, hence, inmost bowels or breast; , tuhoth, the reins; , kerebh, midst, middle, hence, heart. Once in the New Testament (, esothen, from within, Luk 11:39). The viscera (heart, liver, kidneys) were supposed by the ancients to be the seat of the mind, feelings, affections: the highest organs of the psyche, the soul. The term includes the intellect (wisdom in the inward parts, Job 38:36); the moral nature (inward part is very wickedness, Psa 5:9); the spiritual (my law in their inward parts, Jer 31:33). Its adverbial equivalent in Biblical use is inwardly. INWARD, MAN (which see) is identical in meaning.