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αἴσθησις

aísthēsis · G144 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to be able to perceive, to have the capacity to understand, understanding

    To have the capacity to perceive clearly and hence to understand the real nature of something

    Examples

    Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may overflow still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
דַּעַת daʻath · H1847 · knowing, knowledge, skill
דַּעַת (daʻath, H1847) (דַּעַת, knowledge/discernment) represents the broader Hebrew semantic field encompassing both knowledge acquisition and discerning judgment, while αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, G144) specifically denotes the perceptual or discerning aspect emphasized in Hellenistic Greek contexts, particularly the capacity for moral/spiritual discernment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To be able to perceive, to have the capacity to understand, understanding32.28
This noun denotes discerning insight, as in Philippians 1:9's prayer that love may overflow still more in real knowledge and all discernment.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

αἰσθάνομαι aisthánomai · G143 · to be able to perceive, to have the capacity to understand, understanding · 1×αἴσθησιςaísthēsis · G144αἰσθητήριον aisthētḗrion · G145 · to be able to perceive, to have the capacity to understand, understanding · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (εως, ἡ (αἰσθάνομαι) (from Euripides down), perception, not only by the senses but also…
(εως, ἡ (αἰσθάνομαι) (from Euripides down), perception, not only by the senses but also by the intellect; cognition, discernment; (in the Sept., Prov 1:22; Prov 2:10, etc., equivalent to דַּעַת): Phm 1:9, of moral discernment, the understanding of ethica1 matters, as is plain from what is added in Phm 1:10.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Capacity for Understanding1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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