Original Word: αἴσθησις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: aisthésis
Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-ee-sthay-sis)
Short Definition: perception
Definition: perception, understanding, discernment.

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).

STRONGS NT 144: αἴσθησις

αἴσθησις, (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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

perception, discernment

From aisthanomai; perception, i.e. (figuratively) discernment -- judgment.

see GREEK aisthanomai

Forms and Transliterations

αισθησει αισθήσει αἰσθήσει αισθήσεως αίσθησιν αίσθησίν αίσθησις aisthesei aisthēsei aisthḗsei

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