noun · feminine
ennoias
Strong’sG1771
thought, intention, purpose
stem ennoi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ἔννοια, -ας, ἡ
(< νοῦς), [in LXX: Pr 1:4 2:11 3:21 4:1 5:2 8:12 16:22 18:15 19:7 23:4, 19 24:7 (מְזִמָּה, etc.), Wi 2:14, Da TH Su 28*;]
SYN.: ἐνθῦμησις, q.v. (Cremer, 439)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1771 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(νοῦς) act of thinking, reflection, cogitation (συντονία διανοίας Refs 5th c.BC+
2 notion, conception, χρόνου ἔννοια Refs; ἔ. λαβεῖν to form an idea, opposed to αἴσθησιν λαβεῖν, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἔννοιαι, opposed to φαντασίαι, αἰσθήσεις, Refs 4th c.BC+ every kind, variety of anger, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ κοινὴ ἔ. the common notion, Refs; κοιναὶ ἔ. axioms, heading in Refs 3rd c.BC+; general ideas, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ψιλὴ ἔ. mere, i.e. vague, notion, Refs 6th c.AD+
3 intent, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔννοιαν λαβεῖν form a design, Refs; intention of a testator, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. ἐμποιεῖν put an idea into one's head, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 good sense, better judgement, παρὰ τὴν ἔννοιαν Refs 1st c.AD+
II sense of a word, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III Rhet., thought, opposed to diction (λέξις), Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | ennoias | ennoiais |
| object accusative | ennoian1×ἔννοιαν | ennoiain |
| direct address vocative | ennoiar | ennoiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ennoiau | ennoiaiu1×ἐννοιῶν |
| to, for dative | ennoia | ennoiai |
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
ennoia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ennoian“thinking”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Peter 4:1“thinking”… pascharantou sarka kai vis tan autan ennoian hoplizevar, hoti tos pascharantos sarka pauotē …… since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his …
ennoiaiu“intentions”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Hebrews 4:12… kai mueloiu, kai kritikos enthumēsiaiu kai ennoiaiu kardiau;… marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.