Lexical Summary ennoia: thinking, thoughtfulness, moral understanding Original Word: ἔννοιαTransliteration: ennoia Phonetic Spelling: (en'-noy-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: thinking, thoughtfulness, moral understanding Meaning: thinking, thoughtfulness, moral understanding Strong's Concordance intent, mind. From a compound of en and nous; thoughtfulness, i.e. Moral understanding -- intent, mind. see GREEK en see GREEK nous Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1771: ἔννοιαἔννοια, ἐννοίας, ἡ (νοῦς); 1. the act of thinking, consideration, meditation; (Xenophon, Plato, others). 2. a thought, notion, conception; (Plato, Phaedo, p. 73 c., etc.; especially in philosophical writings, as Cicero, Tusc. 1, 24, 57; Acad. 2, 7 and 10; Epictetus diss. 2, 11, 2f, etc.; Plutarch, plac. philos. 4, 11, 1; (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 79). 3. mind, understanding, will; manner of thinking and feeling; German Gesinnung (Euripides, Hel. 1026; Diodorus 2, 30 variant; τοιαύτην ἔννοιαν ἐμποίειν τίνι, Isocrates, p. 112 d.; τήρησον τήν ἐμήν βουλήν καί ἔννοιαν, Proverbs 3:21; φυλάσσειν ἔννοιαν ἀγαθήν, Proverbs 5:2): so 1 Peter 4:1; plural with καρδίας added (as in Proverbs 23:19), Hebrews 4:12 (A. V. intents of the heart), cf. Wis. 2:14. |
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