Lexical Summary aisthēsis: perception Original Word: αἴσθησιςTransliteration: aisthēsis Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-ee-sthay-sis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: perception Meaning: perception Strong's Concordance perception, discernmentFrom aisthanomai; perception, i.e. (figuratively) discernment -- judgment. see GREEK aisthanomai 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. |
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