Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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Imagination
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Luke 1:51
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
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שְׁרִירוּת
shᵉrîyrûwth · sher-ee-rooth'
9 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
obstinacy
Strong's KJV usage: imagination, lust.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 29:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:17
Open full H8307 profile →יֵצֶר
yêtser · yay'-tser
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. purpose)
Strong's KJV usage: frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.
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Strong's first: Genesis 6:5Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 29:18
Open full H3336 profile →διάνοια
diánoia · dee-an'-oy-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise
Strong's KJV usage: :-- imagination, mind, understanding.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 1:51Strong's last: Luke 1:51
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H3336
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
H3336
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
H8307
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
H3336
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
H3336
O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
H8307
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
H8307
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
H8307
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
H8307
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.
H8307
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
H8307
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
H8307
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
H8307
They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
G1271
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
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imagination
IMAGINA'TION, noun [Latin imaginatio.] The power or faculty of the mind by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense.
Imagination I understand to be the representation of an individual thought.
Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination [conception.]
Imagination, in its proper sense, signifies a lively conception of objects of sight. It is distinguished from conception, as a part from a whole.
The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have also a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones so as to form new wholes of our own creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power. I apprehend this to be the proper sense of the word, if imagination be the power which gives birth to the productions of the poet and the painter.
We would define imagination to be the will working on the materials of memory; not satisfied with following the order prescribed by nature, or suggested by accident, it selects the parts of different conceptions, or objects of memory, to form a whole more pleasing, more terrible, or more awful, than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature.
The two latter definitions give the true sense of the word, as now understood.
1. Conception; image in the mind; idea.
Sometimes despair darkens all her imaginations.
His imaginations were often as just as they were bold and strong.
2. Contrivance; scheme formed in the mind; device.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me. Lamentations 3:60.
3. Conceit; an unsolid or fanciful opinion.
We are apt to think that space, in itself, is actually boundless; to which imagination the idea of space of itself leads us.
4. First motion or purpose of the mind. Genesis 6:5.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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