epinoias

Strong’sG1963

thought, purpose

stem epinoi-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.

ἐπίνοια, -ας, ἡ

(< ἐπινοέω, to contrive) [in LXX: Je 20:10, Wi 6:16 9:14 14:12 15:4, Si 40:2, II Mac 12:45, IV Mac 17:2 *;]

a thought, design: Ac 8:22.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1963 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-in'-oy-ah

attention of the mind, i.e. (by implication) purpose

Fromfrom G1909 and G3563;

King Jamesthought.

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

ἐπίνοια, ἡ,
thinking on or of a thing, thought, notion, οὐδ᾽ ἐς ἐπίνοιαν ἰέναι τινός Refs 5th c.BC+; πάσαις ταῖς ἐ. γίγνεσθαι περί τι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.110.10; conception, idea, ἐναργὴς τοῦ πράγματος ἐ. Refs; κατ᾽ ἐπίνοιαν in idea, opposed to κατὰ περίπτωσιν (which see), Refs 1st c.AD+
2. power of thought, inventiveness, οἶνον σὺ τολμᾶς εἰς ἐ. λοιδορεῖ; Refs 4th c.BC+
3. invention, device, conceit, ἐ. ἀστειοτάται Refs; θαυμαστὰς ἐξευρίσκων ἐ. Refs 4th c.BC+
4. purpose, design, τίν᾽ ἐ. ἔσχεθε; Refs 5th c.BC+; τίς ἐ.; Refs; κατὰ τὴν ἐκφορὰν καὶ τὴν ἐ. Refs., = sua sponte, Refs 4th c.AD+
II. afterthought, second thoughts, ψεύδει γὰρ ἡ 'πίνοια τὴν γνώμην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 389.
III. intelligence, κοινὴ ἐ. Refs
III.2. Psychol., reflection on experience, retrospection, Refs

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.

intent1×

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	epinoias1×ἐπίνοια	epinoiais
object accusative	epinoian	epinoiain
direct address vocative	epinoiar	epinoiair
of, belonging to genitive	epinoiau	epinoiaiu
to, for dative	epinoia	epinoiai

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

epinoistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

epinoia 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

epinoias“intent”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 8:22… kuriou ei ara afiēkiti si tas epinoias tau kardiau su;… He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.