Think

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: think, thinking, thinks. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “think” or one of its forms.

• δοκέω dokéō27
• אָמַר âmar12
• διαλογίζομαι dialogízomai5
• חָשַׁב châshab4
• νομίζω nomízō4
• διαλογισμός dialogismós2
• φρήν phrḗn2
• יָדַע yâda2
• עַיִן ayin2
• λογίζομαι logízomai2
• φρονέω phronéō2

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

• אָמַר âmarutter, saytranslated this way 12 times of its 4,555 uses · Strong’s H559Verb  ·  Translated: said 1,531, says 576, say 352, replied 341Full study and all 3,827 verses →
• חָשַׁב châshabthink, accounttranslated this way 4 times of its 118 uses · Strong’s H2803Verb  ·  Translated: considered 10, regarded 7, devise 7, devised 6

  Job 35:2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

  Psalm 40:17 But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

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• יָדַע yâdaknowtranslated this way 2 times of its 914 uses · Strong’s H3045Verb  ·  Translated: know 453, known 53, knows 48, knew 38Full study and all 863 verses →
• עַיִן ayineyetranslated this way 2 times of its 764 uses · Strong’s H5869Noun  ·  Translated: eyes 383, sight 186, eye 38, presence 13

  1 Samuel 1:23 “Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

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Greek words (New Testament)

• δοκέω dokéōI think, seem, appear, it seemstranslated this way 27 times of its 62 uses · Strong’s G1380Verb  ·  Translated: think 17, thinks 6, thought 5, seems 4

  Matthew 6:7 And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.

  Mark 6:49 but when they saw Him walking on the sea, they cried out, thinking He was a ghost —

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• διαλογίζομαι dialogízomaiI reason, debate, considertranslated this way 5 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s G1260Verb  ·  Translated: thinking 5, discussed 2, debating 2, deliberated 2

  Mark 2:6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and thinking in their hearts,

  Luke 5:21 But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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• νομίζω nomízōI think, supposetranslated this way 4 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s G3543Verb  ·  Translated: think 3, assumed 3, presuming 2

  Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

  Acts 17:29 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

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• διαλογισμός dialogismósa calculation, reasoning, thought, plottingtranslated this way 2 times of its 14 uses · Strong’s G1261Noun  ·  Translated: thoughts 7, thinking 2

  Luke 5:22 Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

  Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

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• φρήν phrḗnthe mind, intellecttranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G5424Noun  ·  Translated: thinking 2

  1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

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• λογίζομαι logízomaiI reckon, count, decidetranslated this way 2 times of its 40 uses · Strong’s G3049Verb  ·  Translated: credited 11, consider 4, think 2, regarded 2

  Romans 2:3 So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

  Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think on these things.

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• φρονέω phronéōI think, judge, observetranslated this way 2 times of its 22 uses · Strong’s G5426Verb  ·  Translated: mind 4, think 2

  Romans 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

  Philippians 3:15 All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.

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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.