Senses

New Testament

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

Definition

1aistheterionG145

"sense, the faculty of perception, the organ of sense" (akin to aisthanomai, "to perceive"), is used in Heb 5:14, "senses," the capacities for spiritual apprehension. In the Sept., Jer 4:19, "(I am pained ... in the) sensitive powers (of my heart)."