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Lexicon :: Strong's G1108 - gnōsis

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γνῶσις
Transliteration
gnōsis (Key)
Pronunciation
gno'-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:689,119

Trench's Synonyms: lxxv. σοφία, φρόνησις, γνῶσις, ἐπίγνωσις.

Strong’s Definitions

γνῶσις gnōsis, gno'-sis; from G1097; knowing (the act), i.e. (by implication) knowledge:—knowledge, science.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's G1108 in the following manner: knowledge (28x), science (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's G1108 in the following manner: knowledge (28x), science (1x).

  1. knowledge signifies in general intelligence, understanding

    1. the general knowledge of Christian religion

    2. the deeper more perfect and enlarged knowledge of this religion, such as belongs to the more advanced

    3. esp. of things lawful and unlawful for Christians

    4. moral wisdom, such as is seen in right living

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
γνῶσις gnōsis, gno'-sis; from G1097; knowing (the act), i.e. (by implication) knowledge:—knowledge, science.
STRONGS G1108:
γνῶσις, -εως, ἡ, (γινώσκω), [from Thucydides down], knowledge: with the genitive of the object, σωτηρίας, Luke 1:77; τοῦ θεοῦ, the knowledge of God, such as is offered in the gospel, 2 Corinthians 2:14, especially in Paul's exposition of it, 2 Corinthians 10:5; τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν προσώπῳ Χριστοῦ, 2 Corinthians 4:6; Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, of Christ as a saviour, Philippians 3:8; 2 Peter 3:18; with subjunctive genitive τοῦ θεοῦ, the knowledge of things which belongs to God, Romans 11:33. γνῶσις, by itself, signifies in general intelligence, understanding: Ephesians 3:19; the general knowledge of the Christian religion, Romans 15:14; 1 Corinthians 1:5; the deeper, more perfect and enlarged knowledge of this religion, such as belongs to the more advanced, 1 Corinthians 12:8; 1 Corinthians 13:2, 8; 1 Corinthians 14:6; 2 Corinthians 6:6; 2 Corinthians 8:7; 2 Corinthians 11:6; especially of things lawful and unlawful for Christians, 1 Corinthians 8:1, 7, 10f; the higher knowledge of Christian and divine things which false teachers boast of, ψευδώνυμος γνῶσις, 1 Timothy 6:20 [cf. Holtzmann, Pastoralbriefe, p. 132f]; moral wisdom, such as is seen in right living, 2 Peter 1:5; and in contact with others: κατὰ γνῶσιν, wisely, 1 Peter 3:7. objective knowledge: what is known concerning divine things and human duties, Romans 2:20; Colossians 2:3; concerning salvation through Christ, Luke 11:52. Where γνῶσις and σοφία are used together the former seems to be knowledge regarded by itself, the latter wisdom as exhibited in action: Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 12:8; Colossians 2:3.
["γν. is simply intuitive, σοφ. is ratiocinative also; γν. applies chiefly to the apprehension of truths, σοφ. superadds the power of reasoning about them and tracing their relations." Bp. Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited. To much the same effect Fritzsche (on Romans, the passage cited), "γν. perspicientia veri, σοφ. sapientia aut mentis sollertia, quæ cognita intellectaque veritate utatur, ut res efficiendas efficiat." Meyer (on 1 Corinthians, the passage cited) nearly reverses Lightfoot's distinction; elsewhere, however (e. g. on Colossians, the passage cited, cf. 9), he and others regard σοφ. merely as the more general, γν. as the more restricted and special term. Cf. Lightfoot as above; Trench, § lxxv.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
1:77; 11:52
Romans
2:20; 11:33; 11:33; 15:14
1 Corinthians
1:5; 8:1; 8:7; 8:10; 12:8; 12:8; 13:2; 13:8; 14:6
2 Corinthians
2:14; 4:6; 6:6; 8:7; 10:5; 11:6
Ephesians
3:19
Philippians
3:8
Colossians
2:3; 2:3
1 Timothy
6:20
1 Peter
3:7
2 Peter
1:5; 3:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1108 matches the Greek γνῶσις (gnōsis),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:77

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:77 - To give knowledge of salvation to His people
By the remission of their sins,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:52 - “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:20 - an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:33 - Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:14 - Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:5 - that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1 - Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:7 - However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10 - For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:8 - for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:2 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:8 - Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:6 - But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:14 - Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 4:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:6 - For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:6 - by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:7 - But as you abound in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—see that you abound in this grace also.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:5 - casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:6 - Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested[fn] among you in all things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:19 - to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:8 - Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:3 - in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:20 - O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:7 - Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:5 - But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:6 - to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:18 - but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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