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Lexicon :: Strong's G1271 - dianoia

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διάνοια
Transliteration
dianoia (Key)
Pronunciation
dee-an'-oy-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:963,636

Strong’s Definitions

διάνοια diánoia, dee-an'-oy-ah; from G1223 and G3563; deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise:—imagination, mind, understanding.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's G1271 in the following manner: mind (9x), understanding (3x), imagination (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G1271 in the following manner: mind (9x), understanding (3x), imagination (1x).

  1. the mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring

  2. understanding

  3. mind, i.e. spirit, way of thinking and feeling

  4. thoughts, either good or bad

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
διάνοια diánoia, dee-an'-oy-ah; from G1223 and G3563; deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise:—imagination, mind, understanding.
STRONGS G1271:
διάνοια, -ας, ἡ, (διά and νοός), Sept. for לֵב and לֵבָב; very frequent in Greek writings from [Aeschylus] Herodotus down;
1. the mind as the faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring: Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30 [Tr marginal reading brackets]; Luke 10:27; Ephesians 1:18 Rec.; Eph 4:18; Hebrews 8:10; Hebrews 10:16; 1 Peter 1:13.
2. understanding: 1 John 5:20.
3. mind, i. e. spirit (Latin animus), way of thinking and feeling: Colossians 1:21; Luke 1:51; 2 Peter 3:1.
4. thought; plural contextually in a bad sense, evil thoughts: Ephesians 2:3, as in Numbers 15:39 μνησθήσεσθε πασῶν τῶν ἐντολῶν κυρίου... καὶ οὐ διαστραφήσεσθε ὀπίσω τῶν διανοιῶν ὑμῶν.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
15:39
Matthew
22:37
Mark
12:30
Luke
1:51; 10:27
Ephesians
1:18; 2:3; 4:18
Colossians
1:21
Hebrews
8:10; 10:16
1 Peter
1:13
2 Peter
3:1
1 John
5:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1271 matches the Greek διάνοια (dianoia),
which occurs 41 times in 41 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse[fn] the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - “Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:21 - but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:3 - You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:22 - So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:25 - And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:26 - All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:29 - All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the LORD had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:34 - And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35 - He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:1 - “Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:17 - “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow[fn] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7 - Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39 - know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:28 - The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:18 - O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed[fn] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:4 - He is wise in heart and mighty in strength
—who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:28 - which the skies pour down
and drop on mankind abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:10 - for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:10 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:15 - Good sense wins favor,
but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.[fn]

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‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:4 - Say to those who have an anxious heart,
“Be strong; fear not!
Behold, your God
will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
He will come and save you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 - For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:11 - Whom did you dread and fear,
so that you lied,
and did not remember me,
did not lay it to heart?
Have I not held my peace, even for a long time,
and you do not fear me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15 - Truth is lacking,
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The LORD saw it, and it displeased him[fn]
that there was no justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:33 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,
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