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To reflect on

ἐνθυμέομαιStrong’s G1760

enthumeomai

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Enthumeomai is the Greek word usually translated “was pondering” and “think”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.”
Matthew 1:20 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “was pondering” and “think”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • was pondering 1
  • think 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 2

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary

ἐνθυμέομαι enthumeomai · to reflect on

ἐνθυμέομαι, -οῦμαι (θυμός), [in LXX for דָּמָה pi., etc. ;] to reflect on, ponder: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.1:20 9:4.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

THINK, verb intransitive

preterit tense and participle passive thought, pronoun thaut. [Latin duco.]

  1. To have the mind occupied on some subject; to have ideas, or to revolve ideas in the mind.
  2. To judge; to conclude; to hold as a settled opinion.“Let them marry to whom they think best” Numbers 36:6
  3. To intend.“I thought to promote thee to great honor” Numbers 24:11
  4. To imagine; to suppose; to fancy.“Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall” 1 Corinthians 10:12
All definitions and other forms of “think”
  1. To muse; to meditate.“While Peter thought on the vision--” Acts 10:19
  2. To reflect; to recollect or call to mind.“And when Peter thought thereon, he wept” Mark 14:72
  3. To consider; to deliberate. think how this thing could happen.“He thought within himself, saying, what shall I do?” Luke 12:17
  4. To presume.“THINK not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father--” Matthew 3:9
  5. To believe; to esteem.“If there by any virtue, and if there by any praise, think on these things” Philippians 4:8
  6. To light on by meditation.
  7. To remember with favor.“THINK upon me, my God, for good” Nehemiah 5:19

THINK, verb transitive

To conceive; to imagine.

  1. To believe; to consider; to esteem.
  2. To seem or appear, as in the phrases, me thinketh or methinks, and methought.

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.