G1771 — ἔννοια
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
intent, mind
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἔννοια, 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, Pro 3:21; φυλάσσειν ἔννοιαν ἀγαθήν, Pro 5:2): so 1Pe 4:1; plural with καρδίας added (as in Pro 23:19), Heb 4:12 (A. V. intents of the heart), cf. Wis 2:14.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἔννοια (intent)
Hebrews 4:12
- KJV: For the word of God quick and powerful and sharper than any twoedged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart
- GK: ζων γαρ ο λόγος του θεού και ενεργής και τομώτερος υπέρ πάσαν μάχαιραν δίστομον και διϊκνούμενος άχρι μερισμόυ ψυχής τε και πνεύματος αρμών τε και μυελών και κριτικός ενθυμήσεων και εννοιών καρδίας
1 Peter 4:1
- KJV: Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm yourselves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin
- GK: χριστού ούν παθόντος υπέρ ημών σαρκί και υμείς την αυτήν έννοιαν οπλίσασθε ότι ο παθών εν σαρκί πέπαυται αμαρτίας