dianoia · mind, understanding

What it means

dianoia (διάνοια) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “mind, understanding”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. That in us which reasons and grasps.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mind ×9
• understanding ×2
• thoughts ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• Ephesians×2
• Colossians×1
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1
• 1 John×1

• Matthew 22:37

  And he said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

• Mark 12:30

  and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

• Luke 1:51

  He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their heart;

• Luke 10:27

  And he answered and said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

• Ephesians 4:18

  being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

• Colossians 1:21

  And you, who were once alienated and enemies in mind in evil works,

• Hebrews 8:10

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their hearts; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to me.

• Hebrews 10:16

  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws on their hearts, I will also write them on their mind,

• 1 Peter 1:13

  Therefore, girding up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your hope completely on the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus the Messiah.

• 2 Peter 3:1

  Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you; in both of which I stir up your sincere mind by way of reminder,

• 1 John 5:20

  And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know the one who is true; and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. This is the true God and eternal life.