G3563

• {"n":"nous","s":"Mind. Understanding and the faculty that does it, in one noun.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=nous","r":"Romans 12:2","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads mind or understanding."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Use your head.** **He has a good head on him.** English does this with a body part; Greek does it with an abstract noun."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Nous is the reasoning faculty and also the outlook it produces. It is the root of metanoia, and dianoia at Mark 12:30 is from the same family."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English mind covers the faculty but not the settled outlook, so renewal of the nous sounds like a mental exercise rather than a reorientation."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Words sharing a root across a writer's vocabulary usually belong in the same study. Follow the root rather than the single word."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Mind is the majority rendering throughout."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03bd\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 nous \u00b7 G3563"}],"src":["Romans 12:2; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Ephesians 4:23","dianoia at Mark 12:30","metanoia from the same root"]}