διαλογισμός
deliberation
‘deliberation’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 4 times (29%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (21%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 3 times (21%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (7%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (7%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (7%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1261 appears — 14 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 6 verses
- Luke 2:35 διαλογισμοί n nom pl masc Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."
- Luke 5:22 διαλογισμοὺς n acc pl masc But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
- Luke 6:8 διαλογισμοὺς n acc pl masc But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood.
- Luke 9:46 διαλογισμὸς n nom sg masc There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.
- Luke 9:47 διαλογισμὸν n acc sg masc Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
- Luke 24:38 διαλογισμοὶ n nom pl masc He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 1:21 διαλογισμοῖς n dat pl masc Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Romans 14:1 διαλογισμῶν n gen pl masc Now receive one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
James 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, διαλογισμος (dialogismós) means “deliberation.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 15:19. It appears 14 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Luke (43%), then Romans and Matthew. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1261 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 57%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 43%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 36%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Thoughts 7×
- American Standard Version: Thoughts 5×, Reasoning 2×, Reasonings 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Thoughts 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thoughts 6×, Argument 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1261 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1261 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1261 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1261 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the thinking of a man deliberating with himself
- a deliberating, questioning about what is true
Word origin
Derived from διαλογιζομαι (dialogízomai) (G1260) — to deliberate.
From G1260 ; discussion that is (internal) consideration (by implication purpose ) or (external) debate : - dispute doubtful (-ing) imagination reasoning thought.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G1261 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διαλογισμοὶ dialogismoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 15:19 | 3 |
| διαλογισμοὺς dialogismoùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 5:22 | 3 |
| διαλογισμῶν dialogismō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Romans 14:1 | 3 |
| διαλογισμοί dialogismoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 2:35 | 1 |
| διαλογισμοῖς dialogismoîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 1:21 | 1 |
| διαλογισμοῦ dialogismoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | 1 Timothy 2:8 | 1 |
| διαλογισμὸν dialogismòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 9:47 | 1 |
| διαλογισμὸς dialogismòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 9:46 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διαλογισμος appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 4 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 39:6 διαλογισμός
- Isaiah 59:7 διαλογισμός
- Jeremiah 4:14 διαλογισμός
- Lamentations 3:60 διαλογισμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1261) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 39:6 διαλογισμός "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
- Psalms 55:6 διαλογισμός I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
- Psalms 91:6 διαλογισμός Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
- Psalms 93:11 διαλογισμός
- Psalms 138:2 διαλογισμός I will bow down toward your holy temple, And give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; For you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
- Psalms 138:20 διαλογισμός
- Psalms 145:4 διαλογισμός One generation will commend your works to another, And will declare your mighty acts.
- Isaiah 59:7 διαλογισμός Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- Jeremiah 4:14 διαλογισμός Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Lamentations 3:60 διαλογισμός You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
- Lamentations 3:61 διαλογισμός You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1261) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
