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Resolution

γνώμηStrong’s G1106

gnōmē

Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament

In short

Gnōmē is the Greek word usually translated “judgment”, “purpose” and “consent”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.

“But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.”
Philemon 1:14 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “judgment”, “purpose” and “consent”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • judgment 3
  • purpose 2
  • a purpose 1
  • a judgment 1
  • consent 1
  • mind 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Corinthians 3
  • Revelation 2
  • Acts 1
  • 2 Corinthians 1
  • Philemon 1

5 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 8 verses, by book
Acts 1
20:3
1 Corinthians 3
1:107:257:40
2 Corinthians 1
8:10
Philemon 1
1:14
Revelation 2
17:1317:17
Greek dictionary

γνώμη gnōmē · resolution

γνώμη, -ης, ἡ (γιγνώσκω), [in LXX: Da TH 2:15 (דָּת), Ps 82(83):3 (סוֹד), elsewhere, chiefly II Es, for טְעֵם ;] 1. a means of knowing, a token (Theogn.). 2. In Attic writers, the mind, its operations and results (see Edwards, Lex., App., A); (a) mind, understanding; (b) purpose, intention: Act.20:3; (with) judgment, opinion: 1Co.1:10, Rev.17:13; (d) counsel, advice: 1Co.7:25, 40 2Co.8:10, Phm 14; (e) royal purpose, decree (as in Da, I and II Es): Rev.17:17 (Cremer, 671). † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “resolution” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RESOLU'TION, noun

[Latin resolutio. See Resolve.]

  1. The act, operation or process of separating the parts which compose a complex idea or a mixed body; the act of reducing any compound or combination to its component parts; analysis; as the resolution of complex ideas; the resolution of any material substance by chimical operations.
  2. The act or process of unraveling or disentangling perplexities, or of dissipating obscurity in moral subjects; as the resolution of difficult questions in moral science.
  3. Dissolution; the natural process of separating the component parts of bodies.
  4. In music, the resolution of a dissonance, is the carrying of it, according to rule, into a consonance in the subsequent chord.
All definitions
  1. In medicine, the disappearing of any tumor without coming to suppuration; the dispersing of inflammation.
  2. Fixed purpose or determination of mind; as a resolution to reform our lives; a resolution to undertake an expedition.
  3. The effect of fixed purpose; firmness, steadiness or constancy in execution, implying courage.
  4. Determination of a cause in a court of justice; as a judicial resolution
  5. The determination or decision of a legislative body, or a formal proposition offered for legislative determination.
  6. The formal determination of any corporate body, or of any association of individuals; as the resolutions of a town or other meeting.
  7. In algebra, the resolution of an equation, is the same as reduction; the bringing of the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other, without destroying the equation, by which is found the value of the unknown quantity.
  8. Relaxation; a weakening. obsolete

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.