ἐνθυμέομαι
to consider
‘to consider’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive deponent
- Passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1760 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 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 2 verses
- Matthew 1:20 ἐνθυμηθέντος aor pass.dep ptcp gen sg masc But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
- Matthew 9:4 ἐνθυμεῖσθε pres mid/pass.dep ind 2pl Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Acts 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.
ενθυμεομαι — transliterated enthyméomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to consider.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (67% of all occurrences). Debuting at Matthew 1:20, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1760 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
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: Think 1×, Thought 1×, Thought on 1×
- American Standard Version: He when 1×, Think 1×, Thought 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Continued to reflect 1×, Do you harbor 1×, He had pondered 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Do you think 1×, Having reflected on 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1760 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1760 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1760 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1760 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- to bring to mind, revolve in mind, ponder
- to think, to deliberate
Word origin
Derived from εν (en) (G1722).
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1760 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διενθυμουμένου dienthymouménou | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 10:19 | 1 |
| ἐνθυμεῖσθε enthymeîsthe | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 9:4 | 1 |
| ἐνθυμηθέντος enthymēthéntos | Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 1:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1760, 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
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβλεπω emblépō G1689 to look at
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
+58 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 85 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ενθυμεομαι appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 6 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:6 ἐνθυμέομαι
- Deuteronomy 21:11 ἐνθυμέομαι
- Joshua 6:18 ἐνθυμέομαι
- Isaiah 10:7 ἐνθυμέομαι
- Lamentations 2:17 ἐνθυμέομαι
- Daniel 1:8 ἐνθυμέομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1760) 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.
- Genesis 6:6 ἐνθυμέομαι Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Deuteronomy 21:11 ἐνθυμέομαι and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
- Joshua 6:18 ἐνθυμέομαι But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
- Joshua 7:21 ἐνθυμέομαι when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
- Isaiah 10:7 ἐνθυμέομαι However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
- Lamentations 2:17 ἐνθυμέομαι Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
- Daniel 1:8 ἐνθυμέομαι But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1760) 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.
