Strong’s G3559 · Greek

νουθεσία
nouthesía

Definition

calling attention to, i.e. (by implication) mild rebuke or warning

Etymology

from G3563 (νοῦς) and a derivative of G5087 (τίθημι);

Where the KJV renders it

  • admonition

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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