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Device
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or "a cogitation, an inward reasoning" (generally, evil surmising or supposition), is formed from en, "in," and thumos, "strong feeling, passion" (cp. thumoo, in the Middle Voice, "to be wroth, furious"); Eng., "fume" is akin; the root, thu---, signifies "to rush, rage." The word is translated "device" in Acts 17:29 , of man's production of images; elsewhere, "thoughts," Matthew 9:4; 12:25; Hebrews 4:12 , where the accompanying word ennoia denotes inward intentions, See THOUGHT.
denotes "thought, that which is thought out" (cp. noeo, "to understand"); hence, "a purpose, device;" translated "devices" in 2 Corinthians 2:11; "minds" in 2 Corinthians 3:14; 4:4; 11:3; in 2 Corinthians 10:5 , "thought;" in Philippians 4:7 , AV, "minds," RV, "thoughts" See MIND , THOUGHT.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Device'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/d/device.html. 1940.
