Words the Bible translates as imagination
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- dianoiaδιάνοιαthe mind: a person's power to understand and think, bound up with the heart rather than standing apart from it as pure intellect
- maḥashavahמַחֲשָׁבָהa thought or plan: what the mind works out, whether an inner intention or a deliberate scheme
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- skilled design: an inventive work thought up and executed by a craftsman, including a clever device
- sherirutשְׁרִירוּתthe settled self-will of the heart: a course a person has fixed on for himself and keeps walking instead of listening to God
- yetserיֵצֶרsomething formed: a shaped object, or the human creature God shaped from dust
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- the bent of the heart: what a person forms inside, their settled disposition, plans, or intentions
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