Strong G3563νοῦς
mind
- Transliteration
- nous
- Pronunciation
- nooce
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Detailed definition
νοῦς
(contr. from νόος), ὁ, genitive, dative, νοός, νοΐ (late forms, = cl., νοῦ, νῷ; Bl., § 9, 3), accusative, νοῦν, [in LXX chiefly for לֵב, לֵבָב;]
1. prop., of the ruling faculty, mind, understanding, reason (see Lft., Notes, 88 f.; Vaughan on Rom.7:23): Luk.24:45, Rom.1:28 7:23 12:2 14:5, Eph.4:17, 23 Php.4:7, 2Th.2:2, 1Ti.6:5, 2Ti.3:8, Tit.1:15, Rev.13:18 17:9; ν. τ. σαρκός (ICC, in l), Col.2:18; opposite to σάρξ, Rom.7:25; to πνεῦμα, 1Co.14:14-15; to γλῶσσα, 1Co.14:19
2. By meton., of an act of mind, a mind, thought, purpose: Rom.11:34 = 1Co.2:16" (LXX), 1Co.1:10.†
νόος, see: νοῦς
SYN.: see: πνεῦμα (AS)
(contr. from νόος), ὁ, genitive, dative, νοός, νοΐ (late forms, = cl., νοῦ, νῷ; Bl., § 9, 3), accusative, νοῦν, [in LXX chiefly for לֵב, לֵבָב;]
1. prop., of the ruling faculty, mind, understanding, reason (see Lft., Notes, 88 f.; Vaughan on Rom.7:23): Luk.24:45, Rom.1:28 7:23 12:2 14:5, Eph.4:17, 23 Php.4:7, 2Th.2:2, 1Ti.6:5, 2Ti.3:8, Tit.1:15, Rev.13:18 17:9; ν. τ. σαρκός (ICC, in l), Col.2:18; opposite to σάρξ, Rom.7:25; to πνεῦμα, 1Co.14:14-15; to γλῶσσα, 1Co.14:19
2. By meton., of an act of mind, a mind, thought, purpose: Rom.11:34 = 1Co.2:16" (LXX), 1Co.1:10.†
νόος, see: νοῦς
SYN.: see: πνεῦμα (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3563 appears in 22 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- mind16
- understanding6
- of2
First verses
- Luke 24:45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
- Romans 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- Romans 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
- Romans 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
- Romans 11:34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
- Romans 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
- Romans 14:5One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
- 1 Corinthians 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- 1 Corinthians 2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 14:14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
- 1 Corinthians 14:15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
- 1 Corinthians 14:19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
- Ephesians 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- Ephesians 4:23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
- Philippians 4:7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 2:18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
- 2 Thessalonians 2:2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
- 1 Timothy 6:5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
- 2 Timothy 3:8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
- Titus 1:15Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
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νόος, νόου, ὁ,
Attic dialect contraction νοῦς, genitive νοῦ: [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] uses the contraction form once, in nominative, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.240, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 205 (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus never))]: Trag. use contraction form, except in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 742 (iambic), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1209 (Lyric poetry))]: Aeolic dialect genitive νῶ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 9.1; _accusative_ νῶν Sapph.[prev. work]25.2; νόον Ead.70 (assuming variant))]: irregular forms are found in “NT” and later writers, genitive νοός [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Rom.7.23, LXX.4Mac.1.35; _dative_ νοΐ NT.1Cor.1.10, [2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor] “Or.” 35(9).26; _nominative_ _plural_ νόες 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.86, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.17, 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 96; _accusative_ _plural_ νόας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fragmenta - fragment uncertainFragmenta incerta” 7.27, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 1.15, 5th c.AD: Ammonius Philosophus “in Aristotelis de Interpretatione commentarius - pars” 243.3 (variant), 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 103: _Attic dialect_ _plural_ νοῖ, _accusative_ νοῦς, _genitive_ νόων [prev. work] 122, _dative_ νοῖς [prev. passage])], is rare in early writers, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 471, but frequently in later philosophy:)]
1 mind, as employed in perceiving and thinking, sense, wit, οὐ λῆθε Διὸς πυκινὸν ν. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.461; ν. πολυκερδέα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.255; ν. ὁρῇ καὶ ν. ἀκούει, τἄλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλά 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 249, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 371)]; νόῳ prudently, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.320)]; παρὲκ νόον senselessly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.133)]; σὺν νόῳ wisely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.86, 138)]; ξὺν νῷ with play on ξυνῷ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 114 (νόῳ codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes); ξὺν νῷ ἑλομένῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 619b; οὐδενὶ ξὺν νῷ [prev. author] “Cri.” 48c; μηδενὶ ξὺν νῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 580; τοῦ νοῦ χωρίς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 550; τοῦ ν. κενός [prev. author] “OC” 931)]; νόῳ λαβεῖν τι to apprehend it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.51)]; νόῳ σχεῖν, ἔχειν, recall, remember, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.92.ή, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 490a; κοινὸς ν. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.37 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.6.8)]; ἀγαθὸς ν., σπουδαῖος ν., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.61, 1.252 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
2 νοῦν ἔχειν in two senses,
2.a to have sense, be sensible, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 553, “El.” 1013, 1465, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 535, etc.; ὁ νοῦς ὅδ᾽ αὐτὸς ν. ἔχων οὐ τυγχάνει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1139)]; so ν. ὀλίγον κεκτημένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 747; σμικρὸν νοῦ κεκτῆσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887e; _impersonal_, τὸ γὰρ περισσὰ πράσσειν οὐκ ἔχει ν. οὐδένα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 68, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 68b)]; compare νουνεχόντως.
2.b νοῦν or τὸν ν. ἔχειν to have one's mind directed to something, ἄλλοσ᾽ ὄμμα, θητέρᾳ δὲ ν. ἔχειν [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 272, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.2; τὸν ν. πρὸς αὑτὸν οὐκ ἔχων, ἐκεῖσε δέ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1418; δεῦρο ν. ἔχε [prev. author] “Or.” 1181; οἴκοι τὸν ν. ἔχειν [prev. author] “Ion” 251)]; ποῦ τὸν ν. ἔχει; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 156)]; τὸν ν. ἔχειν πρός τινα or τι (like προσέχειν τὸν ν.) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 504d; πρός τινι [prev. author] “Prt.” 324a, etc.; περί τινος [prev. author] “R.” 534b; ἐν πέρδιξιν “Anthologia Graeca” 7.206 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus): conversely, ἐπὶ νοῦν ἐλθεῖν τινι)] to occur to one, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.15, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.24.3.)]
3 mind, more widely, as employed in feeling, deciding, etc., heart, χαῖρε νόῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.78; κεῦθε νόῳ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.363; [χόλος] οἰδάνει νόον 9.554; ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀτάρβητος ν. ἐστί 3.63)]; ν. ἔμπεδος, ἀκήλητος, ἀπηνής,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (11.813, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.329, 18.381)]; ν. εὐμενής, ἄγναμπτος, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 164 (Lyric poetry), etc.; πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων νόον ἔγνω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.3)]; ἐκ παντὸς νόου with all his heart and soul, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.97)]; τῷ νῷ.. κἀπὸ τῆς γλώσσης in heart as well as tongue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 936: frequently in phrase κατὰ νόον)] according to one's mind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.117, 7.104; εἰ τάδ᾽ ἔχει κατὰ νοῦν κείνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1768 (_anapaest meter_); πράξειας κατὰ ν. τὸν ἐμόν [prev. author] “fragment” 469 (_anapaest meter_); κατὰ ν. πράξας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 549; χωρεῖ κατὰ ν. [prev. author] “Pax” 940, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3e.)]
4 mind, resolve, purpose, ἀγαθῷ νόῳ, i.e. kindly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60)]; τί σοι ἐν νόῳ ἐστὶ ποιέει; what do you intend to do? [Refs ([prev. work] 109)]; ἡμῖν ἐν ν. ἐγένετο εἰπεῖν [Refs ([prev. author] 9.46)]; ἐν ν. ἔχειν with future infinitive, to intend.., [Refs ([prev. author] 1.10 (variant))]: with present infinitive,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 27, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 344d)]; ποιέειν τι ἐπὶ νόον τινί to put into his mind to do.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27)]; ἐπὶ νόον τρέπειν τινί.. [Refs ([prev. author] 3.21; ταύτῃ [ὁ] ν. ἔφερε [prev. author] 9.120.)]
5 reason, intellect, νόου φρενί [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 25, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 16.2, etc.; θεῖος ν. 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 112, compare [prev. author] cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 404a28)]; opposed to δόξα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 51d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 428a5.)]
5.b “Mind” as the active principle of the Universe, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 12, etc.; Θαλῆς νοῦν τοῦ κόσμου τὸν θεόν “Placita Philosophorum” 1.7.11; ἡ τοῦ κόσμου γένεσις ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νοῦ συστάσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 48a, compare “Sph.” 249a, “Phlb.” 30c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1072b20, “de An.” 430a17, 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.28, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.1.4.)]
II act of mind, thought, ἡμῖν δ᾽ οὔ τις τοῦδε νόος καὶ μῆτις ἀμείνων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.509; οὐ γάρ τις νόον ἄλλος ἀμείνονα τοῦδε νοήσει 9.104; οὐ γὰρ δὴ τοῦτον μὲν ἐβούλευσας νόον αὐτή 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.23.)]
II.2 purpose, design, νόον τελεῖν τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.149; σάφα οἶσθ᾽ οἷος ν. Ἀτρεΐωνος 2.192.)]
III sense, meaning of a word, etc., οὗτος ὁ νόος τοῦ ῥήματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.162, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1439, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.83.4, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.106 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, etc.)]; ὁ νόος τῆς θυσίης conjecture for νόμος in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.216)]; meaning of a work of art, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 4.28; πολὺς ν. ἐν ὀλίγῃ λέξει συνέσταλται 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.510e)]; πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν νοῦν to the same effect, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.3.7)]; πρὸς νοῦν οὐδὲν λέγοντες to the point, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.96K.; οὐδὲ νοῦν ἔχον)]senseless, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 5.29.)]
IV [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus name for μονάς, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 6. (Etym. uncertain; the _proper name_ Πολυνόϝα “IG” 9(1).870 hardly proves νόϝος.))]
Attic dialect contraction νοῦς, genitive νοῦ: [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] uses the contraction form once, in nominative, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.240, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 205 (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus never))]: Trag. use contraction form, except in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 742 (iambic), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1209 (Lyric poetry))]: Aeolic dialect genitive νῶ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 9.1; _accusative_ νῶν Sapph.[prev. work]25.2; νόον Ead.70 (assuming variant))]: irregular forms are found in “NT” and later writers, genitive νοός [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Rom.7.23, LXX.4Mac.1.35; _dative_ νοΐ NT.1Cor.1.10, [2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor] “Or.” 35(9).26; _nominative_ _plural_ νόες 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.86, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.17, 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 96; _accusative_ _plural_ νόας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fragmenta - fragment uncertainFragmenta incerta” 7.27, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 1.15, 5th c.AD: Ammonius Philosophus “in Aristotelis de Interpretatione commentarius - pars” 243.3 (variant), 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 103: _Attic dialect_ _plural_ νοῖ, _accusative_ νοῦς, _genitive_ νόων [prev. work] 122, _dative_ νοῖς [prev. passage])], is rare in early writers, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 471, but frequently in later philosophy:)]
1 mind, as employed in perceiving and thinking, sense, wit, οὐ λῆθε Διὸς πυκινὸν ν. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.461; ν. πολυκερδέα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.255; ν. ὁρῇ καὶ ν. ἀκούει, τἄλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλά 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 249, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 371)]; νόῳ prudently, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.320)]; παρὲκ νόον senselessly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.133)]; σὺν νόῳ wisely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.86, 138)]; ξὺν νῷ with play on ξυνῷ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 114 (νόῳ codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes); ξὺν νῷ ἑλομένῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 619b; οὐδενὶ ξὺν νῷ [prev. author] “Cri.” 48c; μηδενὶ ξὺν νῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 580; τοῦ νοῦ χωρίς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 550; τοῦ ν. κενός [prev. author] “OC” 931)]; νόῳ λαβεῖν τι to apprehend it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.51)]; νόῳ σχεῖν, ἔχειν, recall, remember, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.92.ή, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 490a; κοινὸς ν. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.37 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.6.8)]; ἀγαθὸς ν., σπουδαῖος ν., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.61, 1.252 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
2 νοῦν ἔχειν in two senses,
2.a to have sense, be sensible, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 553, “El.” 1013, 1465, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 535, etc.; ὁ νοῦς ὅδ᾽ αὐτὸς ν. ἔχων οὐ τυγχάνει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1139)]; so ν. ὀλίγον κεκτημένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 747; σμικρὸν νοῦ κεκτῆσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 887e; _impersonal_, τὸ γὰρ περισσὰ πράσσειν οὐκ ἔχει ν. οὐδένα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 68, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 68b)]; compare νουνεχόντως.
2.b νοῦν or τὸν ν. ἔχειν to have one's mind directed to something, ἄλλοσ᾽ ὄμμα, θητέρᾳ δὲ ν. ἔχειν [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 272, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.2; τὸν ν. πρὸς αὑτὸν οὐκ ἔχων, ἐκεῖσε δέ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1418; δεῦρο ν. ἔχε [prev. author] “Or.” 1181; οἴκοι τὸν ν. ἔχειν [prev. author] “Ion” 251)]; ποῦ τὸν ν. ἔχει; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 156)]; τὸν ν. ἔχειν πρός τινα or τι (like προσέχειν τὸν ν.) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 504d; πρός τινι [prev. author] “Prt.” 324a, etc.; περί τινος [prev. author] “R.” 534b; ἐν πέρδιξιν “Anthologia Graeca” 7.206 (6th c.AD: Damocharis Epigrammaticus): conversely, ἐπὶ νοῦν ἐλθεῖν τινι)] to occur to one, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.15, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.24.3.)]
3 mind, more widely, as employed in feeling, deciding, etc., heart, χαῖρε νόῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.78; κεῦθε νόῳ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.363; [χόλος] οἰδάνει νόον 9.554; ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀτάρβητος ν. ἐστί 3.63)]; ν. ἔμπεδος, ἀκήλητος, ἀπηνής,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (11.813, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.329, 18.381)]; ν. εὐμενής, ἄγναμπτος, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 164 (Lyric poetry), etc.; πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων νόον ἔγνω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.3)]; ἐκ παντὸς νόου with all his heart and soul, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.97)]; τῷ νῷ.. κἀπὸ τῆς γλώσσης in heart as well as tongue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 936: frequently in phrase κατὰ νόον)] according to one's mind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.117, 7.104; εἰ τάδ᾽ ἔχει κατὰ νοῦν κείνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1768 (_anapaest meter_); πράξειας κατὰ ν. τὸν ἐμόν [prev. author] “fragment” 469 (_anapaest meter_); κατὰ ν. πράξας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 549; χωρεῖ κατὰ ν. [prev. author] “Pax” 940, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3e.)]
4 mind, resolve, purpose, ἀγαθῷ νόῳ, i.e. kindly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60)]; τί σοι ἐν νόῳ ἐστὶ ποιέει; what do you intend to do? [Refs ([prev. work] 109)]; ἡμῖν ἐν ν. ἐγένετο εἰπεῖν [Refs ([prev. author] 9.46)]; ἐν ν. ἔχειν with future infinitive, to intend.., [Refs ([prev. author] 1.10 (variant))]: with present infinitive,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 27, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 344d)]; ποιέειν τι ἐπὶ νόον τινί to put into his mind to do.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27)]; ἐπὶ νόον τρέπειν τινί.. [Refs ([prev. author] 3.21; ταύτῃ [ὁ] ν. ἔφερε [prev. author] 9.120.)]
5 reason, intellect, νόου φρενί [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 25, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 16.2, etc.; θεῖος ν. 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 112, compare [prev. author] cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 404a28)]; opposed to δόξα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 51d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 428a5.)]
5.b “Mind” as the active principle of the Universe, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 12, etc.; Θαλῆς νοῦν τοῦ κόσμου τὸν θεόν “Placita Philosophorum” 1.7.11; ἡ τοῦ κόσμου γένεσις ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ νοῦ συστάσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 48a, compare “Sph.” 249a, “Phlb.” 30c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1072b20, “de An.” 430a17, 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.28, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.1.4.)]
II act of mind, thought, ἡμῖν δ᾽ οὔ τις τοῦδε νόος καὶ μῆτις ἀμείνων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.509; οὐ γάρ τις νόον ἄλλος ἀμείνονα τοῦδε νοήσει 9.104; οὐ γὰρ δὴ τοῦτον μὲν ἐβούλευσας νόον αὐτή 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.23.)]
II.2 purpose, design, νόον τελεῖν τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.149; σάφα οἶσθ᾽ οἷος ν. Ἀτρεΐωνος 2.192.)]
III sense, meaning of a word, etc., οὗτος ὁ νόος τοῦ ῥήματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.162, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1439, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.83.4, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.106 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, etc.)]; ὁ νόος τῆς θυσίης conjecture for νόμος in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.216)]; meaning of a work of art, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 4.28; πολὺς ν. ἐν ὀλίγῃ λέξει συνέσταλται 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.510e)]; πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν νοῦν to the same effect, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.3.7)]; πρὸς νοῦν οὐδὲν λέγοντες to the point, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.96K.; οὐδὲ νοῦν ἔχον)]senseless, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 5.29.)]
IV [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus name for μονάς, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 6. (Etym. uncertain; the _proper name_ Πολυνόϝα “IG” 9(1).870 hardly proves νόϝος.))]