The New Testament occasionally uses nous, a Greek word that approximates what we now call the mind (for example, Rom 12:2). The Greeks regarded it as the organ for physical, mental, moral, and spiritual perception. But the Old Testament has no technical term for the mind as we know it. Instead, it regards the heart, the central physical organ of the human body, as the seat of what we now call the mind, much as we now locate the mind in the brain. The heart is regarded as the organ for perception