Words

διανοέομαι G91178

Home gloss

ponder

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

think / consider

Note

"Think through": every one "ponders" evil (6:5); God "pondered" (6:6) and "having pondered" spoke (8:21). Of the root of διάνοια "understanding"

Rulings

2

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 6 (Septuagint)

• 6:5 Now the Lord God, having seen that the badnesses of the humans were multiplied on the land, and every one ponders in his heart diligently on the evil things all the days,
• 6:6 and God took to heart that he had made the human on the land, and he pondered.

Genesis 8 (Septuagint)

• 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.