ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ, συνεσις
SYNESIS, synesis
Sounds Like: SOON-eh-sis
Translations: understanding, an understanding, intelligence, an intelligence, discernment, a discernment, insight, an insight
From the root: ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: Σύνεσις refers to the faculty of understanding, intelligence, or discernment. It denotes the ability to comprehend, grasp, and interpret information, often implying a practical wisdom or insight into situations. It describes the mental capacity to put things together and make sense of them.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4907 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 2:3
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
- Psalms — 31:9, 110:10
- Proverbs — 1:7, 2:6, 9:10, 13:15
- Job — 12:13, 12:16, 33:3
- Sirach — 1:4, 5:12, 34:11
- Isaiah — 33:19
- Epistle of Barnabas — 2:3
- Shepherd of Hermas — 30:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:145
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 70:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 4:6
- Psalms — 31:9, 110:10
- Proverbs — 1:7, 2:6, 9:10, 13:15
- Job — 12:13, 12:16, 33:3
- Sirach — 1:4, 5:12, 31:12
- Isaiah — 33:19, 47:10
- Baruch — 3:14
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:20, 5:11, 5:12, 10:1
- Obadiah — 1:7
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ.
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.
- ΚΑΙΣΥΝΕΣΕΩΣ — and understanding, and a discernment, and an insight, and a comprehension, and of understanding, and of discernment, and of insight, and of comprehension
- ΝΕΣΙΝ — understanding, a understanding, insight, a insight, knowledge, a knowledge, (to) understanding, (to) insight, (to) knowledge
- ΣΥΝΕΣ — understanding, discernment, insight, intelligence, a discernment
- ΣΥΝΕΣΕΙ — understanding, (to) understanding, (to) insight, (to) intelligence, (to) wisdom, (to) discernment
- ΣΥΝΕΣΕΣΙ — to understanding, for understanding, in understanding, with understanding, to insight, for insight, in insight, with insight
- ΣΥΝΕΣΕΩΣ — of understanding, of insight, of comprehension, of intelligence, of wisdom
- ΣΥΝΕΣΙ — understanding, a understanding, insight, a insight, comprehension, a comprehension, wisdom, a wisdom
- ΣΥΝΕΣΙΝ — understanding, intelligence, discernment, an understanding, an intelligence, a discernment
- ΣΥΝΩΣΙΝ — understanding, comprehension, insight, an understanding, a comprehension, an insight
- ΩΣΣΥΝΕΣΙΝ — understanding, an understanding, insight, intelligence, comprehension
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