Reason, Reasonable, Reasoning
Reason, Reasonable, Reasoning
rez’n, rez’n-a-b’l, rez’n-ing (, yakhah, etc.; , logos, , -, dialogzomai, -ismos, etc.): Reason with related terms, has a diversity of meanings, representing a large number of Hebrew and Greek words and phrases. In the sense of cause or occasion it stands in 1Ki 9:15 for dabhar, a word (the Revised Version margin account), but in most cases renders prepositional forms as from, with, because of, for the sake, etc. As the ground or argument for anything, it is the translation of taam (Pro 26:16, the Revised Version margin answers discreetly), of yakhah, as in Isa 1:18, Come now, and let us reason together (compare Job 13:3; Job 15:3); in 1Sa 12:7, the word is shaphat, the Revised Version (British and American) that I may plead, etc. The principal Greek words for reason, reasoning, are those given above. The Christian believer is to be ready to give a reason (logos) for the hope that is in him (1Pe 3:15 the King James Version). Reason as a human faculty or in the abstract sense appears in Apocrypha in The Wisdom of Solomon 17:12 (logismos); Ecclesiasticus 37:16, Let reason (logos) go before every enterprise, the Revised Version (British and American) be the beginning of every work. In Act 18:14, reason would is literally, kata logon, according to reason; in Rom 12:1, for reasonable (logikos) service, the Revised Version (British and American) has spiritual, and in the margin Greek ‘belonging to the reason.’ In the Revised Version (British and American) reason, etc., occurs much oftener than in the King James Version (compare Lev 17:11; Deu 28:47; Jdg 5:22; Job 20:2; Job 23:7, etc.; Luk 3:15; Luk 12:17; Act 17:17, etc.).