International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Senses

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Senses


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sen´siz: The translation of αἰσθητήριον, aisthētḗrion (, “those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil”). The word means, primarily, the seat of the senses, the region of feeling; in the Septuagint of , it represents the Hebrew ḳı̄r, “the walls of the heart” (see the Revised Version (British and American)), and is used to denote the internal sense or faculty of perceiving and judging, which in is regarded as becoming perfected by use or exercise (compare f; ; ).

In 2 Esdras 10:36 we have “Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?” Latin sensus, here “mind” rather than “sense.”