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3. (! , 3539), “to perceive, understand, apprehend,” is rendered “think” in
Eph. 3:20. See PERCEIVE, UNDERSTAND .
4. $ (% ! , 5282), “to suppose, surmise” ($ , “under,” and No. 3), is
rendered “to think” in Acts 13:25, KJV (RV, “suppose). See DEEM.
5. ( & , 3049), “to reckon,” is rendered “to think,” in Rom. 2:3, KJV
(RV, “reckonest”); 1 Cor. 13:5, KJV , RV, “taketh (not) account of,” i.e., love does not
reckon up or calculatingly consider the evil done to it (something more than refraining
from imputing motives); 13:11, “I thought”; in the following, for the KJV , “to think,” in 2
Cor. 3:5, RV, “to account”; 10:2 (twice), “count”; 10:7, “consider”; 10:11, “reckon”; 12:6,
“account.” In Phil. 4:8, “think on (these things),” it signifies “make those things the
subjects of your thoughtful consideration,” or “carefully reflect on them” (RV marg.,
“take account of”). See ACCOUNT, A, No. 4.
6. (& , 3543), to suppose, is sometimes rendered to think, e.g., Matt.
5:17. See SUPPOSE, No. 1.
7. ( $ ! , 5426), “to be minded in a certain way” ( , “the mind”), is
rendered “to think,” in Rom. 12:3 (2nd and 3rd occurrences), RV, “not to think of himself
more highly ($ , see No. 13) than he ought to think ( ); but so to think
( ) as to think soberly [ , see Note (3)]”; the play on words may be
expressed by a literal rendering somewhat as follows: “not to over-think beyond what it
behoves him to think, but to think unto sober-thinking”; in 1 Cor. 4:6, some inferior texts
have this verb, hence the KJV “to think”; in the best texts, it is absent, hence the RV , puts
“ ” in italics; lit., the sentence is “that ye might learn the (i.e., the rule) not beyond what
things have been written.” The saying appears to be proverbial, perhaps a rabbinical
adage. Since, however, , “to write,” was a current term for framing a law or an
agreement (so Deissmann, 0 - $, and Moulton and Milligan, F !), it is quite
possible that the apostle’s meaning is “not to go beyond the terms of a teacher’s
commission, thinking more of himself than the character of his commission allows”; this
accords with the context and the whole passage, 3:1-4:5. In Phil. 1:7, KJV, “to think” (RV,
“to be … minded). See AFFECTION, B, Note (1) and list there.
8. i or ( 5 , 3633), “to imagine,” is rendered “I suppose” in John
21:25; “thinking” in Phil. 1:17, RV (v. 16, KJV , “supposing”); “let (not that man) think,”
Jas. 1:7. See SUPPOSE.¶
9. ( & , 5316), in the passive voice, “to appear,” is rendered “(what) think
(ye)” in Mark 14:64, lit., “what does it appear to you?” See APPEAR, No. 1.
10. $ ( ' ! , 2106), “to be wellpleasing,” is rendered “we thought it good”
in 1 Thess. 3:1. See PLEASE.
11. @ ( , 515), “to regard as worthy” ( @), “to deem it suitable,” is
rendered “thought (not) good” in Acts 15:38. See WORTHY, B.
12. $ (# !, 1760), “to reflect on, ponder,” is used in Matt. 1:20;
9:4: see No. 14. Cf. $, “consideration” (see THOUGHT).¶