nous · mind, understanding

What it means

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

The ability to think and judge; also a way of thinking or a purpose.

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. The capacity to think, judge and understand in each person.
2. A way of thinking: "the mind of the Lord".

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• mind ×22
• understanding ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Romans×6
• 1 Corinthians×7
• Ephesians×2
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Revelation×2

• Luke 24:45

  Then he opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

• Romans 1:28

  And since they did not see fit to have God in knowledge, God handed them over to an unfit mind, to do the things that are not proper,

• Romans 7:23

  but I see another law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

• Romans 7:25

  Thanks be to God through Jesus the Messiah our Lord. So then, I myself with the mind serve as a slave to the law of God, but with the flesh, to the law of sin.

• Romans 11:34

  For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counselor?

• Romans 12:2

  And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may discern what the will of God is: what is good and pleasing and complete.

• Romans 14:5

  One person judges one day above another, while another judges every day alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

• 1 Corinthians 1:10

  Now I urge you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that all of you say the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgment.

• 1 Corinthians 2:16

  For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct him? But we have the mind of the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 14:14

  For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

• 1 Corinthians 14:15

  What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will also pray with the mind; I will sing praise with the spirit, but I will also sing praise with the mind.

• 1 Corinthians 14:19

  but in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my mind, so that I may also instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

• Ephesians 4:17

  This therefore I say and testify in the Lord: that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the futility of their mind,

• Ephesians 4:23

  and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

• Philippians 4:7

  And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in the Messiah Jesus.

• Colossians 2:18

  Let no one disqualify you, delighting in humility and the worship of angels, entering into what he has seen, puffed up without reason by the mind of his flesh,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:2

  that you not be quickly shaken from your mind or alarmed, whether by a spirit or by a word or by a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is here.

• 1 Timothy 6:5

  constant friction of people corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who think that godliness is a means of gain.

• 2 Timothy 3:8

  And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified with regard to the faith.

• Titus 1:15

  All things are clean to the clean; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; rather, both their mind and conscience have been defiled.

• Revelation 13:18

  Here is wisdom. Let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a human being; and its number is six hundred sixty six.

• Revelation 17:9

  Here is the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman is seated; and they are seven kings;

And 2 more times.