διάνοια G1271

Home gloss: understanding
Instead of (KJV / RSV): imagination / inclination
Note: Thinking through (Mark 12:30, KJV "with all thy mind"; Eph 4:18 "having the understanding darkened"; 1 John 5:20). "Mind" is kept for νοῦς (144c). Of the root of διανοέομαι "ponder." See 8:21
Rulings: 2, 144

Occurrences (5)

8:21 And the Lord God smelled an odor of fragrance, and the Lord God said, having pondered, "I will not add further to curse the land because of the works of the humans, for the understanding of the human is intent diligently on the evil things from youth; therefore I will not add further to strike all flesh living, just as I have done.

17:17 And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his understanding, saying, "Shall a son come to be to one a hundred years old? And if to Sarah, of ninety years—shall it come to be?"

24:15 And it came to be, before he had completed speaking in his understanding, and look, Rebekah was going forth, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the woman of Nahor, now the brother of Abraham, having the water jar on her shoulders.
24:45 And it came to be, before I had completed speaking in my understanding, straightway Rebekah was going forth, having the water jar on the shoulders; and she went down to the spring and fetched water. Now I said to her, 'Give me drink.'

27:41 And Esau bore a grudge against Jacob over the blessing with which his father had blessed him; now Esau said in his understanding, "Let the days of mourning for my father draw near, that I may kill Jacob my brother."