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Deuteronomy 7:12/13 "God... will bless... the fruit of thy ground, thy corn and thy new wine, and thine oil". The fruit of thy ground is the general statement, the following things are what the fruits are.
Isaiah 11:2 "The Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah". The various spirits mentioned are simply characteristics of the Spirit of Jehovah.
Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies". The evils listed are what the evil thoughts are, rather than additional things. The expression evil thoughts covers these things and no doubt others not mentioned.
Matthew 22:37 is similar. It speaks of the first commandment which reads: "Thou shalt love [the] Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding" . The force of this is that the whole person is to be involved. Mark and Luke have also "with all thy strength" (Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27). The heart is put first because that is presented in
Scripture as the fount in Man of feelings, thoughts etc. The soul and understanding are in a sense a breakdown of what is found in the heart - the soul points to feelings (Genesis 34:3; 44:30; 1 Samuel 18:1) and the understanding to the apprehension of the meaning of information (Luke 24:45). When persons are out of their mind their understanding goes and is recovered if their minds are healed (Daniel 4:34). The statements would indicate that Man's ability is taken into account - some have stronger feelings or greater intellectual power than others. The same is true as to strength. We are to use what we have. It is a question of "all". We are not to be half-hearted. "Thy strength" would show that effort is to be involved.
To summarise we may say that:
(1) The expression heart is used for the interior of Man whether we are speaking of what is physical (material) or spiritual (immaterial). See for examples: Psalm 39:3; 55:4; 64:6: 109:22 & 143:4).
(2) The bowels usually again refer to what is internal, but the expression is limited to the lower parts. See for example Jonah 1:17 where the word is translated belly. It is used in a non- physical sense where strong feelings are involved.
(3) The term mind covers not only the physical brain, but also the thoughts that Man has which are generated in it. The latter are no doubt what are referred to when Paul speaks of "the spirit of your mind" (Ephesians 4:23). The memory is referred to in some cases as in Hebrews 8:10. Other words are used where emotions are spoken of.
(4) The head is what is visible and is used for what governs what is below it as it contains the thinking faculty (the mind). See for examples: Colossians 2:10 & 19.
(5) The spirit, unless referring to physical breath, is the non-material part of Man in which he lives when out of the body. It is distinct from the soul which is the self (1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12), though the one being in the other the words can often be used interchangeably (Luke 1:46/47 & compare John 12:27 with John 13:21). As with physical breath, animation is connected with it so that we have: "The body without a spirit is dead" (James 2:26). We have in Proverbs 14:29 anger (persons getting aerated) connected with the spirit. Anger is something that shows itself: it can usually be seen when a person is angry
See for example: Genesis 4:5.
(6) The soul is the self (the ego). It is the person: the conscious, feeling being (Ezekiel 18:4). The word is therefore often used where feelings are involved. See for examples: Genesis 42:21 (anguish); Psalm 42:2 (thirst).
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