2001 Translation

NOUN, noun

Sounds Like: NOON

Translations: mind, a mind, understanding, an understanding, reason, a reason

From the root: ΝΟΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is the accusative singular form of the noun 'νοῦς' (nous), meaning 'mind', 'understanding', or 'reason'. It refers to the faculty of perception and understanding, often encompassing intellect, thought, and moral consciousness. It is used to indicate the direct object of an action, for example, 'to have a mind' or 'to direct one's understanding'.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3563 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:276

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 6:10

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 5:11, 10:59, 11:9
• To the Newly Baptized — 1:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judith — 8:14
• 4 Maccabees — 2:22, 5:11, 16:13
• Proverbs — 31:3
• Job — 7:17, 7:20, 33:16
• Wisdom — 4:12, 9:15
• Isaiah — 10:12, 41:22
• Luke — 24:45
• Romans — 11:34
• 1 Corinthians — 2:16
• Philippians — 4:7
• 1 Timothy — 6:5
• 2 Timothy — 3:8
• Epistle of Barnabas — 6:10

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 14:142
• Book Two — 14:142

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:20, 16:245
• Book 2 — 6:100
• Book 3 — 3:65, 12:287
• Book 4 — 6:111, 8:267, 8:316
• Book 5 — 9:319
• Book 6 — 13:287, 14:326
• Book 7 — 4:92, 7:132, 8:186, 14:350
• Book 8 — 2:23
• Book 11 — 8:335
• Book 12 — 2:55
• Book 13 — 5:163, 5:166
• Book 14 — 11:278, 15:454
• Book 15 — 7:207, 10:377
• Book 16 — 7:194, 7:221, 8:233
• Book 20 — 4:76

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Four — 10:38
• Book Seven — 5:24

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:6
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 2:1, 29:2, 30:1, 50:5, 60:2, 65:3, 129:4

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 25:122

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:6, 10:2, 11:5

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 7:23
• Joshua — 14:7
• Ezra (Alpha) — 9:41
• Judith — 8:14
• 2 Maccabees — 15:8
• 3 Maccabees — 1:25
• 4 Maccabees — 2:22, 5:11, 16:13
• Proverbs — 24:71
• Job — 7:17, 7:20, 33:16
• Wisdom — 4:12, 9:15
• Isaiah — 10:12, 40:13, 41:22
• Lamentations — 1:14, 2:14, 3:40, 4:14
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:9
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:9

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 17:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 24:45
• Romans — 1:28, 11:34
• 1 Corinthians — 2:16
• Philippians — 4:7
• 1 Timothy — 6:5
• 2 Timothy — 3:8
• Revelation — 13:18

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΟΥΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΝΟΙ — to minds, for minds, to understandings, for understandings, to thoughts, for thoughts
• ΝΟΥ — of mind, of understanding, of intellect, of a mind, of an understanding, of an intellect
• ΝΟΥΣ — mind, a mind, understanding, a faculty of understanding, reason, intellect, thought, a thought, purpose, a purpose

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