νῶς

English (Thayer)

(νοῦς) (contracted from νῶς), ὁ, genitive νως,dative νοι< (so in later Greek for the earlier forms νου, νώ, contracted from νωυ, νόω; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 453; Winer's Grammar, § 8,2b.; (Buttmann, 12 f (12))), accusative νοῦν (contracted from νῷν), the Sept. for לֵב and לֵבָב (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: διανοίγω, 2); τό πνεῦμα, the spirit intensely roused and completely absorbed with divine things, but destitute of clear ideas of them, ἔχειν τόν νοῦν κυρίου (L text, others Χριστοῦ), to be furnished with the understanding of Christ, reason (German die Vernunft) in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, the faculty of perceiving dibble things, of recognizing goodness and of hating evil: Winer's Grammar, 229 (215); Buttmann, § 134,7); ἡ σάρξ, ἀνανεοῦσθαι τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ νως, to be so changed that the spirit which governs the mind is renewed, ἡ ἀνακαίνωσις τοῦ νως, the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially: a particular mode of thinking and judging: thoughts, feelings, purposes: τοῦ κυρίου (from desires, τῆς σαρκός, Colossians 2:18 (cf. Meyer at the passage).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

νῶς: Δωρ. ἀντὶ νοῦς, τιν’ ἔχειν με δοκεῖς νῶν Θεόκρ. 14, 21· κατὰ νῶν αὐτόθι 57, κλ.