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Strong's G3563 νοῦς (nous)

Nous means “mind” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3563 — koc (“cup”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3563
Language Greek
Linked Usages 52
Books 24

Strong's G3563 Quick Answer

Strong's G3563 νοῦς (nous) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nous (nous`) n. 1. the intellect, i.e. the mind 2. (by implication) meaning It has 52 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include mind, minds, and will. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
nous (nous`) n. 1. the intellect, i.e. the mind 2. (by implication) meaning
Usage
52 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
mind, minds, and will

Meaning and Definition

nous (nous`) n. 1. the intellect, i.e. the mind 2. (by implication) meaning {divine or human; in thought, feeling, or will} [probably from the base of G1097] KJV: mind, understanding Root(s): G1097 Compare: G5590

Original Word
νοῦς
Transliteration
nous
Derivation
Root: γινώσκω R1: 1097
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3563. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

mind

Usage: νοῦς (contr. from νόος), ὁ, genitive, dative, νοός, νοΐ (late forms, = cl., νοῦ, νῷ; Bl., § 9, 3), accusative, νοῦν, [in LXX chiefly for לֵב, לֵבָב ;] __1. prop., of the ruling faculty, mind, understanding, reason (see Lft., Notes, 88 f.; Vaughan on Rom.7:23): Luk.24:45, Rom.1:28 7:23 12:2 14:5, Eph.4:17, 23 Php.4:7, 2Th.2:2, 1Ti.6:5, 2Ti.3:8, Tit.1:15, Rev.13:18 17:9; ν. τ. σαρκός (ICC, in l), Col.2:18; opposite to σάρξ, Rom.7:25; to πνεῦμα, 1Co.14:14-15; to γλῶσσα, 1Co.14:19 __2.

By meton., of an act of mind, a mind, thought, purpose: Rom.11:34 = 1Co.2:16" (LXX), 1Co.1:10.† νόος, see: νοῦς SYN.: see: πνεῦμα (AS)

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How Strong's G3563 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nous, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's G3563 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 22 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3563 (νοῦς) appears 29 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3563 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3563 in the New Testament

22 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 24:45 KJV

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

Romans 1:28 KJV

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Romans 7:23 KJV

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Strong's G3563 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

12 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 7:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And Pharaoh turned and entered into his house, nor did he fix his attention even on this thing.

Joshua 14:7 Septuagint / Brenton

For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.

Job 7:17 Septuagint / Brenton

For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? Or that thou givest heed to him?

Strong's G3563 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

18 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 2:6 Septuagint / Brenton

Whosoever then dwell in the places about, let them help him, those, I say, that are his neighbors, with gold, and with silver,

1 Esdras 9:41 Septuagint / Brenton

And he read in the broad court before the holy porch from morning unto midday, before both men and women; and all the multitude gave heed unto the law.

Judith 8:14 Septuagint / Brenton

For ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh: then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and know his mind, or comprehend his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord our God to anger.

Usage Excerpts

First 52 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3563.

Exodus 7:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh turned and entered into his house, nor did he fix his attention even on this thing.
Joshua 14:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.
Job 7:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? Or that thou givest heed to him?
Job 7:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? Why hast thou made me as thine accuser, And why am I a burden to thee?
Job 33:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then opens he the understanding of men: He scares them with such fearful visions:
Job 36:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside From the petition of the feeble that are in distress.
Proverbs 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Give not your wealth to women, nor your mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.
Proverbs 36:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 10:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.
Isaiah 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.
Isaiah 40:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counselor, to instruct him?
Isaiah 41:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let them draw nigh, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell us what things were of old, and we will apply our understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things:
Luke 24:45 New Testament, KJV
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Romans 1:28 New Testament, KJV
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Romans 7:23 New Testament, KJV
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:25 New Testament, KJV
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 11:34 New Testament, KJV
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Romans 12:2 New Testament, KJV
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 14:5 New Testament, KJV
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
1 Corinthians 1:10 New Testament, KJV
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 2:16 New Testament, KJV
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:14 New Testament, KJV
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:15 New Testament, KJV
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians 14:19 New Testament, KJV
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Ephesians 4:17 New Testament, KJV
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Ephesians 4:23 New Testament, KJV
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Philippians 4:7 New Testament, KJV
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Colossians 2:18 New Testament, KJV
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
2 Thessalonians 2:2 New Testament, KJV
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
1 Timothy 6:5 New Testament, KJV
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
2 Timothy 3:8 New Testament, KJV
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Titus 1:15 New Testament, KJV
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Revelation 13:18 New Testament, KJV
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Revelation 17:9 New Testament, KJV
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
1 Esdras 2:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whosoever then dwell in the places about, let them help him, those, I say, that are his neighbors, with gold, and with silver,
1 Esdras 9:41 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he read in the broad court before the holy porch from morning unto midday, before both men and women; and all the multitude gave heed unto the law.
Judith 8:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh: then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and know his mind, or comprehend his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord our God to anger.
2 Maccabees 15:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
wherefore he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the heathen against them, but to remember the help which in former times they had received from heaven, and now to expect the victory and aid, which should come unto them from the Almighty.
3 Maccabees 1:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The elders who surrounded the king strove in many ways to divert his haughty mind from the design which he had formed.
4 Maccabees 1:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom.
4 Maccabees 1:35 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning.
4 Maccabees 2:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.
4 Maccabees 2:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.
4 Maccabees 2:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.
4 Maccabees 3:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the passions, and to quench the fires of excitement,
4 Maccabees 5:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?
4 Maccabees 14:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains.
4 Maccabees 16:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather with supplications exhorted them to death in behalf of religion.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest; And the wandering of concupiscence doth undermine the simple mind.
Wisdom of Solomon 9:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, And the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
Daniel 1:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now God had brought Daniel into favor and compassion with the chief of the eunuchs.
Book 151 1:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3563, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 6 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 5 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 2 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 9 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3563 FAQ

What does nous (νοῦς) mean?

Nous (Strong's G3563) is a Greek word most simply glossed "mind". nous (nous`) n. 1. the intellect, i.e. the mind 2. (by implication) meaning

How many times is nous (νοῦς) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 52 linked usages for Strong's G3563 across 24 books.

Where can I study nous (νοῦς) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3563 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate nous (νοῦς)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mind, minds, and will. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3563 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 12 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 18 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3563, with linked reader references where each row is available.