Senses
1. conscience, moral self-awareness — The inner faculty of moral self-evaluation by which a person judges their own actions as right or wrong; used extensively in Pauline and Petrine epistles regarding a clear, good, weak, or defiled conscience. Singular and plural inflections represent the same concept. Spanish 'conciencia/conciencias' directly parallels the Latin-derived English term; Hindi 'विवेक' (discernment, moral judgment) emphasizes the discriminative faculty; Arabic 'ضَمير/ضَمائِر' (conscience, inner voice) derives from a root meaning 'hidden/inner'; Korean '양심' (良心, good-heart) uses a Sino-Korean compound highlighting the moral-goodness aspect of this inner awareness; Swahili 'dhamiri' (conscience) is a Bantu-Arabic loan. The Hindi 'ज़मेएर' variant parallels the Arabic 'ضمير', showing cross-linguistic borrowing chains. 31×
AR["الضَّميرِ","ضَمائِرَهُم","ضَمير","ضَميرًا","ضَميرٍ","ضَميرَ","ضَميرُ","ضَميرُهُم","ضَميرِ","ضَميرِنا","ضَمِيرًا","ضَمِيرٍ","ضَمِيرِ","طاهِرٍ"]·ben["বিবেক","বিবেক;","বিবেককে","বিবেকে","বিবেকে,","বিবেকে।","বিবেকের","বিবেকের,","বিবেকের;","বিবেকের।"]·DE["Gewissen","συνείδησιν","συνειδήσει"]·EN["conscience"]·FR["conscience"]·heb["טָהוֹר","טוֹב","מַצְפּוּן","מַצְפּוּנִי"]·HI["अंतरात्मा","अंतरात्मासे","अन्तःकरण","अन्तरात्मा","अन्तहकरन,","अन्तहकरन.","ज़मेएर","विवेक","विवेक-की"]·ID["Hati-nurani","hati-nurani","hati-nurani,","hati-nurani.","hati-nuraniku","yang-murni"]·IT["coscienza","suneideseos"]·jav["angen-angen","kalbu,","kalbu.","nurani","nurani,","nurani.","nurani;","rumaos-batin","sukmaning-budi","sukmaning-budi.","sukmaning-budi;"]·KO["양심","양심,","양심.","양심에","양심에-의해","양심으로","양심을","양심을;","양심이","양심이라"]·PT["Consciência","consciência","consciência.","consciência;"]·RU["Совесть","моей","совести","совести.","совести;","совесть","совестью"]·ES["conciencia"]·SW["-","Dhamiri","dhamiri","dhamiri.","dhamiri;","yake","zao"]·TR["bizim","insanların","o-","onların","vicdan","vicdan,","vicdandan","vicdani","vicdanimin","vicdanla","vicdanları","vicdanları.","vicdanlarına-","vicdanlarından"]·urd["ضمیر","ضمیر-سے","ضمیر۔"]
John 8:9, Acts 23:1, Acts 24:16, Rom 2:15, Rom 9:1, Rom 13:5, 1 Cor 8:7, 1 Cor 8:10, 1 Cor 8:12, 1 Cor 10:25, 1 Cor 10:27, 1 Cor 10:28 (+19 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
συνείδησις, εως, ἡ, knowledge shared with another, τῶν ἀλγημάτων (in a midwife) Refs 2nd c.AD+ __2 communication, information, εὑρήσεις σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; σ. εἰσήνεγκαν τοῖς κολλήγαις αὐτῶν Refs 3rd c.AD+ __3 knowledge, λῦε ταῦτα πάντα μὴ διαλείψας ἀγαθῇ σ. (variant{ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ}) Refs 5th c.BC+ __4 consciousness, awareness, [τῆς αὑτοῦ συστάσεως] NT+5th c.BC+; inner consciousness, ἐν σ. σου βασιλέα…