Conscience
συνείδησιςStrong’s G4893suneidēsis
Appears in 30 verses of the New Testament
In short
Suneidēsis is the Greek word usually translated “conscience” and “consciences”. It appears in 30 verses of the New Testament.
“Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:”
Meaning
Usually translated “conscience” and “consciences”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- conscience 24
- a conscience 5
- consciences 1
- of a conscience 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Corinthians 7
- Hebrews 5
- 1 Timothy 4
- Romans 3
- 2 Corinthians 3
- 1 Peter 3
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Timothy 1:19In contextHolding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
- 1 Timothy 3:9In contextHolding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
- 1 Timothy 4:2In contextSpeaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
- Titus 1:15In contextUnto 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.
- John 8:9And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
- Acts 23:1And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Greek dictionary
συνείδησις suneidēsis · conscience
συν-είδησις, -εως, ἡ (συνεῖδον), [in LXX: Ecc.10:20 (מַדָּע), Wis.17:11, Sir.42:18 א * ;] 1. consciousness: with genitive obj., Heb.10:2, 1Pe.2:19. 2. In ethical sense, innate discernment, self-judging consciousness, conscience (Stoics and late writers): Rom.2:15 9:1, 1Co.10:29, 2Co.1:12 4:2 5:11, 1Ti.4:2, Heb.9:14; σ. ἀγαθή, Act.23:1, 1Ti.1:5 1:19, 1Pe.3:16 3:21; ἀσθενής, 1Co.8:7 8:10; ἀσθενοῦσα, 1Co.8:12; ἀπρόσκοπος, Act.24:16; καθαρά, 1Ti.3:9, 2Ti.1:3; καλή, Heb.13:18; πονηρά, Heb.10:22; ὁ νοῦς καὶ ἡ σ., Tit.1:15; διὰ τὴν σ., Rom.13:5, 1Co.10:25 10:27-28; κατὰ σ., Heb.9:9; ὑπὸ (τῆς) σ., J …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “conscience” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSCIENCE, noun
[Latin, to know, to be privy to.]
- Internal or self-knowledge, or judgment of right and wrong; or the faculty, power or principle within us, which decides on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of our own actions and affections, and instantly approves or condemns them. conscience is called by some writers the moral sense, and considered as an original faculty of our nature.“Being convicted by their own conscience they went out one by one” John 8:9
- The estimate or determination of conscience; justice; honesty.
- Real sentiment; private thought; truth; as, do you in conscience believe the story?
- Consciousness; knowledge of our own actions or thought.
All definitions
- Knowledge of the actions of others.
- In ludicrous language, reason or reasonableness.
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.