noun · masculine
logismos
Strong’sG3053
reasoning, thinking
stem logism-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.
λογισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< λογίζομαι), [in LXX: Ps 32 (33):10, 11, Pr 19:21, Is 66:18, al. (מַחֲשֶׁבֶת);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3053 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlog-is-mos'
computation, i.e. (figuratively) reasoning (conscience, conceit)
Fromfrom G3049;
King Jamesimagination, thought.
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
counting, calculation, τῶν ἡμερῶν Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, numbers, arithmetic, λογισμοὺς μανθάνειν Refs 5th c.BC+
2 account, reckoning, Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. λαμβάνειν hold an audit, Refs 4th c.BC+
II without reference to number, calculation, reasoning, τοῦ ξυμφέροντος λογισμῷ Refs 5th c.BC+; λ. αὐτοκράτορι (see. αὐτοκράτωρ Refs 5th c.BC+; personified, opposed to Θυμός, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 reason, argument, Refs 5th c.BC+
III reasoning power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ —Only in Prose and Comedy texts
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 | logismos | logismois |
| object accusative | logismon | logismoin1×λογισμοὺς |
| direct address vocative | logismor | logismoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | logismou | logismoiu1×λογισμῶν |
| to, for dative | logismo | logismoi |
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
logismo 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
logismoin“arguments”objectaccusative plural1×
2 Corinthians 10:4“arguments”… dunateim to theo pros kathairesian ochurōmeiu logismoin kathairarōntois… have divine power to demolish strongholds.
logismoiu“thoughts”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Romans 2:15… tau suneidēsiau kai metaxu allēloiu toiu logismoiu katēgorarōntoiu ē kai apologorōntoiu,… consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them