Words the Bible translates as reason
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- logosλόγοςa reason, ground, or basis: the cause behind an action, or the case a person makes to defend or explain it.
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- a word, statement, or message: anything that is said, whether a single saying, a whole teaching, or, in its loaded Christian use, the message of the gospel itself.
- an account or reckoning: a settling of the books, the tally a person must hand over for what they have done.
- a matter, affair, or thing: the issue under discussion, the case at hand.
- phroneōφρονέωto have the mind set a certain way: to be leaning in one direction, so that what a person thinks, wants, and cares about all point the same way
- aitiaαἰτίαa reason: the ground or cause that answers why something is so or is done
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- a charge: the stated ground on which someone is accused, found guilty, or condemned
- dialogizomaiδιαλογίζομαιto reason a matter through, weighing it up point by point, whether silently in one's own mind or out loud with others
- dialegōδιαλέγωto talk something through with others: to reason, discuss, and argue a case back and forth
- suzēteōσυζητέωto go after a question together with other people: to talk it over with them or to argue it out against them
- levavלְבַבthe heart: a person's inner self, above all the mind that thinks and knows, and the self that either lifts itself up in pride or is brought low
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