Lexical Summary
aisthésis: Perception, discernment, insight
Original Word: αἴσθησις
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: aisthésis
Pronunciation: ahee'-sthay-sis
Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-ee-sthay-sis)
KJV: judgment
NASB: discernment
Word Origin: [from G143 (αἰσθάνομαι - perceive)]
1. perception
2. (figuratively) discernment
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
perception, discernment
From aisthanomai; perception, i.e. (figuratively) discernment -- judgment.
see GREEK aisthanomai
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 144 aísthēsis (a feminine noun) – properly, the brand of sense-discernment which "cuts through" hazy ethical (moral) matters to really "size things up" (used only in Phil 1:9). See 145 (aisthētērion).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
aisthanomaiDefinitionperception
NASB Translationdiscernment (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 144: αἴσθησιςαἴσθησις,
(εως,
ἡ (
αἰσθάνομαι) (from
Euripides down),
perception, not only by the senses but also by the intellect;
cognition, discernment; (in the
Sept.,
Proverbs 1:22;
Proverbs 2:10, etc., equivalent to
דַּעַת):
Philippians 1:9, of moral discernment, the understanding of ethica1 matters, as is plain from what is added in
Philippians 1:10.
