Bible Dictionary: Emotion

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

Greek

3804. pathema -- that which befalls one, ie a suffering, a passion
... pathema Phonetic Spelling: (path'-ay-mah) Short Definition: suffering, passion
Definition: (a) suffering, affliction, (b) passion, emotion, (c) an undergoing ...
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3958. pascho -- to suffer, to be acted on
... 3958 (a primitive verb) -- properly, to feel , especially ; , experiencing feeling
(literally "" = "" the feeling of the mind, emotion, passion" (J. Thayer ...
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3806. pathos -- that which befalls one, a passion, a suffering
... a passion, a suffering. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: pathos Phonetic
Spelling: (path'-os) Short Definition: suffering, emotion, depraved passion ...
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3338. metamelomai -- to regret, repent
... 3338 (from 3326 , " being ," and 3199 , "care, be concerned with") -- properly,
to experience a change of concern a of emotion and usually implying , ie ...
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4423. ptoesis -- a fluttering, excitement, hence terror
... Cognate: 4423 -- properly, "caused by any emotion, but especially by fear, hence, "
(); a scare or nervous excitement" (, 310). See 4422 (). ...
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2372. thumos -- passion
... J. Thayer) -- properly, #NAME? (intense emotion). When 2372 ("expressed passion")
is used of people it indicates (personal venting of , worth). ...
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2205. zelos -- to have warmth of feeling for or against, to be ...
... omamopoeic term that mimics the sound of water bubbling over from heat and perhaps
derived from 2204 , "to boil") -- properly, burning emotion (inner feeling ...
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2896. krazo -- to scream, cry out
... an onomatopoetic term for a raven's piercing cry ("caw"); (figuratively) cry out
with an or shriek, using "inarticulate shouts that express emotion" (, 708). ...
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700. aresko -- to please
... to please. Probably from airo (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable
(or by implication, to seek to be so) -- please. see GREEK airo. ...
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Topical Bible Verses

1 Timothy 2:11-15
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
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Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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Luke 16:19-31
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
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Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.
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Revelation 19:11-21
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
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Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
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1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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Strong's Hebrew

5315. nephesh -- a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire ...
... a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion.
Transliteration: nephesh Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-fesh) Short Definition: soul. ...
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1523. gil -- to rejoice
... Or (by permutation) guwl {gool}; a primitive root; properly, to spin round (under
the influence of any violent emotion), ie Usually rejoice, or (as cringing ...
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7264. ragaz -- to be agitated, quiver, quake, be excited ...
... A primitive root; to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear) --
be afraid, stand in awe, disquiet, fall out, fret, move, provoke, quake ...
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Library

Feeling and Emotion. April 6.
... Feeling and Emotion. April 6. Live a life of feeling, not of excitement.
Let your religion, your duties, every thought and word, be ...
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A Rash Vow
... wrong, good and evil, I find in them". I. A noble, sincere, but transient
emotion and impulse. 'I will lay down my life for Thy ...
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Difference Between the Mind and the Soul, and the Relation Between ...
... as one of the two natural constituents of the mind, [1575] that divine principle
which he conjectures to be impassible, or incapable of emotion, and thereby ...
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Love Worketh no Ill to his Neighbor; Therefore Love is the ...
... Complacency is due only to the good and holy. 2. Love may exist either as an affection
or as an emotion. ... When it is an emotion, it is involuntary. ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/love worketh no ill to.htm

Christ Repressing Rash Discipleship
... over into ruin. Discipleship which is the result of mere emotion must be
evanescent, for all emotion is so. Effervescence cannot ...
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The Seventh Miracle in John's Gospel --The Raising of Lazarus
... And there are three things in this narrative which I think well worthy of our notice.
There is the revelation of Christ as our Brother, by emotion and sorrow. ...
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The Lord's Furnace
... love. Every language has taken fire as the symbol of love and emotion. We ...
quiet phlegmaticism. There is no religion without emotion. ...
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A Triplet of Graces
... Such emotion, produced by the touch of the fiery Spirit of God, is what Paul desires
for, and enjoins on, all Christians; for such emotion is the only way by ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/a triplet of graces.htm

The Patient Teacher, and the Slow Scholars
... Not only emotion very unusual in Him, yet truly human, and showing Him to be our
Brother; but they suggest three distinct types of emotion, all of them dashed ...
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The Anger and Grief of Jesus
... It is the only occasion, so far as I remember, upon which that emotion is attributed
to Him. ... Passion is always weak, emotion is an element of strength. ...
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Thesaurus

Emotion (1 Occurrence)
... the body. Multi-Version Concordance Emotion (1 Occurrence). John 11:33 Seeing
her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping ...
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Passion (82 Occurrences)
... to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes
extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment ...
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Passions (26 Occurrences)
... (2) "Suffering," when applied to the mind, came to denote the state that is controlled
by some emotion, and so "passion" was applied to the emotion itself. ...
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Joy (422 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good;
pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like ...
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Affection (30 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Feeling or emotion. ... 7. (n.) The lively representation of
any emotion. 8. (n.) Affectation. 9. (n.) Passion; violent emotion. Int. ...
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Feeling (59 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion;
any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart ...
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Astonishment (51 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful,
or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement ...
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Fear (970 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the
apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm ...
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Touch (82 Occurrences)
... See Tactile sense, under Tactile. 25. (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion. 26.
(n.) An emotion or affection. 27. (v.) Personal reference or application. ...
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Transport (18 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger,
etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. ...
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Bible Concordance

Emotion (1 Occurrence)

John 11:33 Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,
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Subtopics

Related Terms

Passion (82 Occurrences)

Passions (26 Occurrences)

Joy (422 Occurrences)