nou'" nou'" (contracted from nw"), oJ, genitive nw",dative noi? (so in later Greek for the earlier forms nou, nwv, contracted from nwu, novw; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 453; Winer's Grammar, sec. 8, 2 b.; (Buttmann, 12f (12))), accusative nou'n (contracted from nw'/n), the Septuagint for ble and bb;le (from Homer down); mind (German Sinn), i. e.1. the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining; hence, specifically, a. the intellective faculty, the understanding: (on which see dianoivgw, 2); ; ; ; opposed to tov pneu'ma, the spirit intensely roused and completely absorbed with divine things, but destitute of clear ideas of them, f,19; e[cein tovn nou'n kurivou (L text, others Cristou'), to be furnished with the understanding of Christ, b. b. reason (German die Vernunft) in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, the faculty of perceiving divine things, of recognizing goodness and of hating evil: ; ; ; ; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 229 (215); Buttmann, sec. 134, 7); ; opposed to hJ savrx, ; ajnaneou'sqai tw'/ pneuvmati tou' nw", to be so changed that the spirit which governs the mind is renewed, ; (cf. hJ ajnakaivnwsi" tou' nw", ). c. the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially: .2. a particular mode of thinking and judging: ; ; equivalent to thoughts, feelings, purposes: tou' kurivou (from ), ; a; equivalent to desires, th'" sarkov", (cf. Meyer at the passage).*