νοῦς
noûs · G3563 · Greek · 24 occurrences
Meanings
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mind
The psychological faculty of understanding, reasoning, thinking, and deciding
ExamplesLuke 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
Romans 7:23 but I see a different law in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my body’s parts.
Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
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way of thinking, disposition, manner of thought, attitude
A particular manner or way of thinking
ExamplesRomans 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper,
Romans 11:34 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?
Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
11 occurrences in 6 groups
- ἐγώI, we 3
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 3
- κύριοςLord 2
- σάρξflesh, body, physical body 1
- σύyou 1
- ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἴδιοςone’s own 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
- ἀδόκιμοςdisqualified, worthless 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μιαίνωto defile 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- γινώσκωto know 2
- ἔχωto have 2
- διανοίγωto open 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἄκαρποςunfruitful, useless 1
- ὧδεhere 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἐνin 3
- εἰςto 2
- ὑπόby, under 2
- ἀπόfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- ματαιότηςuseless 1
- ἀνακαίνωσιςrenewal 1
- νόμοςlaw, the Law 1
- πνεῦμαspirit 1
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
- לֵבָב lêbâb · H3824 · heart, mind, attention
- Hebrew לֵבָב denotes the internal seat of thought, will, and emotion (often translated 'heart'), serving as the functional equivalent to Greek νοῦς ('mind/intellect') in LXX rendering, though Hebrew lexical semantics do not compartmentalize cognition from affection as sharply as Greek philosophical vocabulary does.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Mind26.14
- Describing the inner conflict of the flesh and spirit, Romans 7:23 states “but I see a different law in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my body’s parts,” where “mind” renders this noun for the faculty of thought and understanding.
- Way of thinking, disposition, manner of thought, attitude30.5
- Urging transformation, Romans 12:2 states “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect,” where “mind” renders this same noun, here of one's whole way of thinking or disposition being renewed.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see νοῦς. G3563 — νοῦς (contracted from νως), ὁ, genitive νως,dative νοινου, νώ,…
G3563 — νοῦς
(contracted from νως), ὁ, genitive νως,dative νοινου, νώ, contracted from νωυ, νόω; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 453; Winers Grammar, § 8, 2 b.; (Buttmann, 12f (12))), accusative νοῦν (contracted from νῷν), the Sept. for לֵב and לֵבָב (from Homer down); mind (German Sinn), i. e.
1. the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining; hence, specifically,
a. the intellective faculty, the understanding: Lk 24:45 (on which see διανοίγω, 2); Phm 4:7; Rev 13:18; Rev 17:9; opposed to τό πνεῦμα, the spirit intensely roused and completely absorbed with divine things, but destitute of clear ideas of them, 1 Cor 14:14f, 19; ἔχειν τόν νοῦν κυρίου (L text, others Χριστοῦ), to be furnished with the understanding of Christ, 1 Cor 2:16b.
b. reason (German die Vernunft) in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, the faculty of perceiving dibble things, of recognizing goodness and of hating evil: Rom 1:28; Rom 7:23; Eph 4:17; 1 Tim 6:5; 2 Tim 3:8 (cf. Winers Grammar, 229 (215); Buttmann, § 134, 7); Tit 1:15; opposed to ἡ σάρξ, Rom 7:25; ἀνανεοῦσθαι τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ νως, to be so changed that the spirit which governs the mind is renewed, Eph 4:23; (cf. ἡ ἀνακαίνωσις τοῦ νως, Rom 12:2).
c. the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially: 2 Thess 2:2.
2. a particular mode of thinking and judging: Rom 14:5; 1 Cor 1:10; equivalent to thoughts, feelings, purposes: τοῦ κυρίου (from Isa 40:13), Rom 11:34; 1 Cor 2:16a; equivalent to desires, τῆς σαρκός, Col 2:18 (cf. Meyer at the passage).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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