νοῦς
mind
also: judging, determining 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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3563 appears in the Book of 1 Timothy — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Timothy
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 νους centers on the idea of “mind.” Its earliest occurrence is Luke 24:45. It turns up in 22 verses across 11 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Romans (27%), then 1 Corinthians and Ephesians. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “mind” it spans “judging” and “determining”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3563 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 →
- 22
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 22 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #548
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 548 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 22 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 6 verses 27%
- 1 Corinthians 5 verses 23%
- Ephesians 2 verses 9%
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 22 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 19 verses · 86%
- Johannine 2 verses · 9%
- Revelation 2 verses · 9%
- Gospels 1 verse · 5%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 5%
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: Mind 14×, Understanding 7×, Minds 2×
- American Standard Version: Mind 17×, Understanding 6×, Of 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mind 16×, Minds 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mind 18×, Minds 3×, Of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3563 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3563 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3563 across 23 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3563 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining
- a particular mode of thinking and judging, i.e thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires
Word origin
Derived from γινωσκω (ginṓskō) (G1097) — to know.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G3563 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νοῦν noûn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 24:45 | 9 |
| νοὸς noòs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Ephesians 4:17 | 4 |
| νοΐ noí̈ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 14:15 | 3 |
| νοῒ noì̈ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 7:25 | 3 |
| νοῦς noûs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 14:14 | 3 |
| νοός noós | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Romans 7:23 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3563, 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
- γνωμη gnṓmē G1106 mind
- γνωριζω gnōrízō G1107 to make known
- γνωσις gnōsis G1108 knowledge
- γνωστης gnṓstēs G1109 expert
- γνωστος gnōstós G1110 known
- ονομα ónoma G3686 name
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νους appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 5 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 7:23 νοῦς
- Joshua 14:7 νοῦς
- Job 7:17 νοῦς
- Proverbs 29:7 νοῦς
- Isaiah 10:7 νοῦς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3563) 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 7:23 νοῦς Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.
- Joshua 14:7 νοῦς Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
- Job 7:17 νοῦς What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,
- Job 7:20 νοῦς If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?
- Job 33:16 νοῦς Then he opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction,
- Job 36:19 νοῦς Would your wealth sustain you in distress, Or all the might of your strength?
- Proverbs 29:7 νοῦς The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
- Proverbs 31:3 νοῦς Don't give your strength to women, Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
- Isaiah 10:7 νοῦς 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.
- Isaiah 10:12 νοῦς Therefore it shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
- Isaiah 40:13 νοῦς Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counselor has taught him?
- Isaiah 41:22 νοῦς Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3563) 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.
