αἴσθησις
perception
‘perception’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G144 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Philippians 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.
The Greek noun αισθησις centers on the idea of “perception.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Philippians (100%). It occurs only once, in Philippians 1:9. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G144 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Philippians 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: Judgment 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Insight 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Understanding 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G144 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G144 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G144 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- perception, not only by the senses but by the intellect
- cognition, discernment
Word origin
Derived from αισθανομαι (aisthánomai) (G143) — to perceive.
From G143 ; perception that is (figuratively) discernment : - judgment.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G144, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αισθησις appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 2 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 28:3 αἴσθησις
- Proverbs 1:4 αἴσθησις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G144) 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.
- Exodus 28:3 αἴσθησις You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Proverbs 1:4 αἴσθησις To give prudence to the simple, Knowledge and discretion to the young man:
- Proverbs 1:7 αἴσθησις The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 1:22 αἴσθησις "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 2:3 αἴσθησις Yes, if you call out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding;
- Proverbs 2:10 αἴσθησις For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
- Proverbs 3:20 αἴσθησις By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.
- Proverbs 5:2 αἴσθησις That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
- Proverbs 8:10 αἴσθησις Receive my instruction rather than silver; Knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Proverbs 10:14 αἴσθησις Wise men lay up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
- Proverbs 11:9 αἴσθησις With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, But the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
- Proverbs 12:1 αἴσθησις Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid.
- Proverbs 12:23 αἴσθησις A prudent man keeps his knowledge, But the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
- Proverbs 14:6 αἴσθησις A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, But knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
- Proverbs 14:7 αἴσθησις Stay away from a foolish man, For you won't find knowledge on his lips.
- Proverbs 14:18 αἴσθησις The simple inherit folly, But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- Proverbs 15:7 αἴσθησις The lips of the wise spread knowledge; Not so with the heart of fools.
- Proverbs 15:14 αἴσθησις The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, But the mouths of fools feed on folly.
- Proverbs 18:15 αἴσθησις The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
- Proverbs 19:25 αἴσθησις Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; Rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
- Proverbs 22:12 αἴσθησις The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; But he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
- Proverbs 23:12 αἴσθησις Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.
- Proverbs 24:4 αἴσθησις By knowledge the rooms are filled With all rare and beautiful treasure.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G144) 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.
