Lexicon aisthétérion: organ of perception Original Word: αἰσθητήριον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: aisthétérion Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-sthay-tay'-ree-on) Short Definition: perceptive faculty Definition: perceptive faculty. HELPS word-Studies 145 aisthētḗrion (a neuter noun derived from aio, "perceive, discern through the senses") – properly, "the organ of sense" (BAGD), emphasizing the result of sensory experience (sensation) – i.e. moral feeling to know what is right or wrong in God's eyes (used only in Heb 5:14 and in the plural). "145 (aisthētērion, neuter noun) focuses on the principle of sense and especially its result. 144 /aísthēsis (the feminine cognate) is the brand of sense-discernment which shrewdly sizes things up. 145 (aisthētḗrion) is "the concrete organ of sense, becoming virtually a habitual ability which must be developed and enables believers to distinguish between the spirits. It is a spiritual gift which must be developed in practice" (DNTT, 2, 391). [Like 144 /aísthēsis, 145 /aisthētḗrion comes from 143 /aisthánomai ("to perceive with the aid of the physical senses").] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom aisthanomai and -térion (suff. denoting place) Definitionorgan of perception NASB Translationsenses (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 145: αἰσθητήριοναἰσθητήριον, , τό, an organ of perception; external sense, ( Hippocrates); Plato, Ax. 366 a.; Aristotle, polit, 4, 3, 9, others; faculty of the mind for perceiving, understanding, judging, Hebrews 5:14 ( Jeremiah 4:19 αἰσθητήριον τῆς καρδίας, 4 Macc. 2:22 (common text) τά ἔνδον αἰσθητήρια).
Strong's a sense From a derivative of aisthanomai; properly, an organ of perception, i.e. (figuratively) judgment -- senses. see GREEK aisthanomai |
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