Original Word: νεφρός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: nephros
Phonetic Spelling: (nef-ros')
Short Definition: a kidney as a general emotional center
Definition: a kidney (as a general emotional center), the reins.

3510 nephrós – properly, a visceral organ ("kidney"); (figuratively) a person's innermost feelings, particularly as they come to bear on decision-making.

Philo (about ad 50) applied this term to "the emotions driving the conscience," i.e. affections that influence decisions.

[The LXX also used 3510 (nephrós) this way when translating OT 3629 /oiktírmōn ("kidneys").]

STRONGS NT 3510: νεφρός

νεφρός, νεφρου, ὁ, a kidney (Plato, Aristophanes); plural the kidneys, the loins, as the Sept. for כְּלָיות, used of the inmost thoughts, feelings, purposes, of the soul: with the addition of καρδίας, Revelation 2:23, with which cf. Psalm 7:10; Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 17:10; Wis. 1:6.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

reins.

Of uncertain affinity; a kidney (plural), i.e. (figuratively) the inmost mind -- reins.

Forms and Transliterations

νεφροί νεφροίς νεφρους νεφρούς νεφροὺς νεφρών νεχωθά nephrous nephroùs

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