noun · feminine
aisthēsias
Strong’sG144
perception
stem aisthēsi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
αἴσθησις, -εως, ἡ
(< αἰσθάνομαι), [in LXX chiefly for דַּעַת;]
SYN.: ἐπίγνωσις, q.v. (cf. Cremer, 620).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G144 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidah'-ee-sthay-sis
perception, i.e. (figuratively) discernment
Fromfrom G143;
King Jamesjudgment.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
sense-perception, sensation, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ σώματος ἡ αἴ. Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς αἴσθησιν perceptibly, Refs 1st c.BC+: in plural, the senses, Refs 3rd c.AD+; δι᾽ ἑπτὰ σχημάτων αἱ αἰ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπ᾽ ὄψεως ἤ τινος ἄλλῃς αἰ. Refs; organ or seat of sensation, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἴ. πημάτων perception, sense of.., Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of pain, Refs; also of the mind, perception, knowledge of a thing, ἐν αἰ. γενέσθαι τινόςRefs 1st c.AD+; αἴ. ἔχειν τινός, ={αἰσθάνεσθαί τινος}, have a perception of a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+ —also of things, αἴσθησιν ἔχειν give a perception, i.e. become perceptible, serving as passive to αἰσθάνομαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἴ. παρέχειν τινός furnish the means of observing, Refs 5th c.BC+
II in object. sense, impressions of sense, Refs 4th c.BC+; stage-effects, Po. Refs; αἰσθήσεις θεῶν visible appearances of the gods, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 display of feeling, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 in hunting, scent, Refs 5th c.BC+—Confined to Prose in early writers, except Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aisthēsias | aisthēsiais |
| object accusative | aisthēsian | aisthēsiain |
| direct address vocative | aisthēsiar | aisthēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | aisthēsiau | aisthēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | aisthēsia1×αἰσθήσει | aisthēsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
aisthēsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
aisthēsia“discernment”to, fordative singular1×
Philippians 1:9“discernment”… mallon perisseuateiō en epignōsia kai panta aisthēsia,… love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of …