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Definition: Thinking |
ThinkingAdjective1. Given to cogitation; "he looked at me with cogitative eyes". 2. Endowed with the capacity to reason. Noun1. The process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thinking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Thinking is a higher cognitive function and comprises activities like creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making. The analysis of thinking processes is part of cognitive psychology.
Also see Picture thinking
In the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, thinking means you tend to put a higher priority on impersonal factors than personal factors.
See also
- Picture thinking
- Abstract thinking
- Lateral thinking
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Thought is a process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. It is a process of mind. Concepts akin to thought are sentience, consciousness, idea and imagination.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| THALIA | English | Thinking and Linking Intelligent Appliances | N/A |
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Synonyms: ThinkingSynonyms: cogitative (adj), intelligent (adj), reasoning(a) (adj), thinking(a) (adj), cerebration (n), intellection (n), mentation (n), thought (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Analogy | Analogical thinking; free association; train of thought. |
Belief | Tenet, dogma, principle, way of thinking; popular belief; (assent). |
Persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction; certainty; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression; (idea); surmise; conclusion; (judgment). | |
Intellect | Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand. |
Misjudgment | Phrase: nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought; wishful thinking; unshakable conviction; "my mind is made up - don't bother me with the facts". |
Thought | Adjective: thinking; Verb: thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thinking |
| English words defined with "thinking": logical thinking. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thinking": Admiral, Adverbs, Answer more Scotico ♦ Beth Gelert ♦ callback, case and paste, Cephalus and Procris, Cognition Disorders, cognition science, Cognitive behavior therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Compromise, computer ethics, Connection Machine LISP ♦ dining philosophers, Dining Philosophers Problem, DREAMER, Dumb ♦ eighty-column mind ♦ Fashion, FITNR, Flux ♦ GHOUL, Grumbo ♦ Hallucinogens ♦ Illiac IV ♦ Liar, logic ♦ Malthusian, Mental Processes ♦ NESL ♦ Ophelia ♦ Paranoid Disorders, Peeping Tom of Coventry, Problem-Based Learning ♦ Questa Cortesissima ♦ ROCKEFELLER, Rogero,, Ropes ♦ Schizotypal Personality Disorder, scrap, Somebody else's, spoofing, success ♦ Thinking Machines Corporation ♦ Wide Area Information Servers, WILSON. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thinking": Think. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't want any of you boys thinking, that you're gonna score (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) I keep thinking, what would Jake do (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) But what you'll be really thinking is: we had sex. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Okay, I'm thinking. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) Here you've been in therapy, you know, thinking you blew it with the greatest girl ever, and really it turns out that getting your dick stuck in your zipper was the best thing that ever happened to you. (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) | |
Lyrics | And when it comes to thinking about anything but my baby (Too Busy Thinking About My Baby; performing artist: Marvin Gaye) You say you're even thinking about dying (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville) You've got me thinking that I need (Can't Stop; performing artist: After 7) Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply) Seriously thinking about spirituality and you wouldn't let me get away with (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Clever | Smile. It makes others wonder what you're thinking. (references; author: unknown) Learning is forging ahead. Thinking is foraging a head. (references; author: unknown) A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. (references; author: unknown) With money, I can buy things; with thinking, I can understand things. (references; author: unknown) Some persons don't know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Thinking Man As Hero (Part 1) (1973) Oscar's Thinking Cap (1971) Thinking Out Loud (2000) Wishful Thinking (1990) Thinking Big (1987) | |
Song Titles | King Of Wishful Thinking (performing artist: Go West) I've Been Thinking About You (performing artist: Londonbeat) Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (performing artist: Marvin Gaye) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A Well-fed vicar tired with thinking,/ And fairly overcome by drinking;... / [John Collier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Thinking About Drinking & Driving? : Think Again. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | It's awkward to settle things by thinking, she answered. One ought just to know. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Thinking of the story. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Anyway, maybe she's thinking. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Democratic donkey thinking over Maryland primary. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Poet in garden thinking, watched by angry farmer and cow. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Winter pastimes. Thinking how much more wisely you could spend the amount of your income tax than ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | While he's thinking it over. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reuben Reuben I've been thinking what a good thing it would be if the people all were drinking Cherry Ripe like you and me / Ketterlinus lith. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Thinking of the sea" by Li Enxin Commentary: "Brighton beach." | "Thinking" by Karl-Erik Bennion Commentary: "Thinking on Hawaiian Shirt Friday." |
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 | An excerpt typical of a thinking or tense style in a modern movie soundtrack. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ernest Renan | Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. |
Ferdinand VII | Far be it from us, the danger of thinking. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows! |
Plato | Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. |
| When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day. |
Voltaire | No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. |
W. Clement Stone | Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. |
William Shakespeare | There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And thus the consent of freemen, born under government, which only makes them members of it, being given separately in their turns, as each comes to be of age, and not in a multitude together; people take no notice of it, and thinking it not done at all, or not necessary, conclude they are naturally subjects as they are men. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She had no doubt of what Mr. Weston was often thinking about |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The colonel did wrong perhaps to accept these conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right, and sacrificing himself alone |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen felt his own face red too, thinking of all the bets about who would get first place in elements, Jack Lawton or he. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I was too hot to do somebody good That is too cold in thinking of it now. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And Ma went to the meat counter, her forefinger pressed against her lips, blowing on her finger, thinking deeply, |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone, and thinking on poor England |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | What was it that I was thinking of |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Cognitive functions -- all aspects of thinking, perceiving, and remembering. (references) | |
After a while, some people learn how to avoid thinking about their tinnitus. (references) | ||
Memory loss and slow thinking may occur, although the ability to reason remains intact. (references) | ||
Business | The concept of a largely homogeneous Chinese people pervades the thinking of the Han majority. (references) | |
Foreign companies thinking about selling it's spare parts in the PA must appoint a Palestinian agent/distributor according to the Palestinian regulations. (references) | ||
In the U.K., the transportation of goods is overwhelmingly conducted by road, although current Government thinking is to encourage a greater use of the rail network. (references) | ||
Economic History | Croatia | According to current government thinking, HEP will not be privatized plant by plant. (references) |
Australia | The Government claims that the Act is the advent of a new way of thinking about electricity. (references) | |
Djibouti | Djibouti critically needs new water reserves and is thinking of going to desalination of sea water. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | Responding to the August report on the opposition demonstration, for example, the Prime Minister defended the actions of police and accused the Commission of being influenced by Western thinking. (references) |
Travel | Korea | Though Koreans have transitioned greatly into Western society, the traditional ways of thinking in many areas are still practiced. (references) |
Worker Rights | Morocco | In those cases where unwitting Moroccan women have been recruited to perform sexual services outside of the country, traffickers usually have deceived them into thinking that they will be filling secretarial or domestic servant jobs. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Colin Powell | Military men always understand that there will be casualties, and you should never go into a conflict thinking it will be casualty-free or trying to conduct it casualty-free. |
Dennis Miller | I guarantee you, you plunk Switzerland down somewhere between Syria and Iraq, and they're going to be thinking about how to kill somebody with a Toblerone. |
Donald Rumsfeld | Oh, certainly. I've been there several times, and I intend to. We spend a lot of time thinking about it. It's terribly important that they succeed. |
Linda Thompson | You know, Elvis fooled himself into thinking he didn't have a drug problem because everything that he took was by prescription. |
Paul Harvey | I'm asked that question a lot and I'm not even aware of it. I'm just pausing between what I'm saying and what I'm thinking about saying. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Well, I was a non-sexually active teenager in any capacity. I was very popular in high school, I was the homecoming queen, I was senior class president. I was not at all thinking of dating in any way, shape or form. |
Rush Limbaugh | Everybody's been so brainwashed into thinking tobacco is as evil as any substance known to man. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | So thinking, I derive the greatest satisfaction from the conviction that thus much at least has been secured upon this important and embarrassing subject. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I am particularly disturbed at the effect such thinking may have on production and employment. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | But the world has to wonder what the dictator of Iraq is thinking. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Much of what the American people are thinking about tonight is what we've already talked about. |
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| "Thinking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "Thinking" is used about 10,592 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96% | 10,168 | 915 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.25% | 239 | 19,365 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.74% | 185 | 22,646 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,592 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "thinking". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Palal | N/A | Biblical | Thinking |
| Schaaph | N/A | Biblical | Thinking |
| Shuham | N/A | Biblical | Thinking |
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Expressions using "thinking": abstract thinking ♦ analogical thinking ♦ analytic thinking ♦ Christian Positive Thinking ♦ creative thinking ♦ fall to thinking ♦ i'm thinking of you ♦ it does not bear thinking about ♦ lateral thinking ♦ logical thinking ♦ man is a thinking animal ♦ not bear thinking about ♦ put on one's thinking cap ♦ set smb. thinking ♦ set thinking ♦ straight thinking ♦ synthetic thinking ♦ talk without thinking ♦ thinking about ♦ thinking cap ♦ thinking Machines Corporation ♦ to my way of thinking ♦ way of thinking ♦ what are you thinking about? ♦ what you are thinking of? ♦ wishful thinking ♦ without thinking ♦ worth thinking about. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thinking": thinking-all, thinking-but, thinking-by-pun. | |
Ending with "thinking": forward-thinking, quick-thinking, re-thinking. | |
Containing "thinking": free-thinking latitudinarian undogmatic undogmatical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "thinking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të menduarit (calculation, meditation, reflection, reflexion), opinion (judgement, judgment, mind, notion, opinion, say, view, voice), mendim (brainchild, cogitation, conceit, conception, estimation, idea, judgement, judgment, meditation, mind, muse, notion, opinion, reflection, reflexion, say, self-communion, sentiment, spirit, thought). (various references) | |
Arabic | فكر (idea, thought, to think), مفكر (debater, intellectual), تفكير (cogitation, reasoning, reflection, reflexion, reminding, thought), تأمل (cogitative, consider, contemplate, contemplation, meditate, meditation, muse, observation, ponder, pore over, rumble, ruminate, rumination, speculate, study, think, think out, think over), عقلاني (intellectual, rational, rationalistic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разумен (discriminate, equitable, intelligent, judicious, level, long-headed, politic, rational, reasonable, responsible, sane, sensible, understanding, well-judged), размисъл (cogitation, meditation, reflection, rumination, thought), начин на мислене (thought), мнение (advice, belief, comment, counsel, esteem, estimation, idea, image, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, pronouncement, sentence, sentiment, thought, thoughts, verdict, view, voice), мисъл (dictum, idea, image, intellection, mind, reflection, thought), мислещ (intellectual, reasoning), мислене (cogitation, think, thought), интелектуален (highbrow, intellectual, noetic, unemotional). (various references) | |
Chinese | 认为 (think), 覺 (a nap, a sleep, awake, aware, feel, find that), 思維 (thought), 思想 (idea, thought). (various references) | |
Czech | uvažování (cogitation, deliberation, ponderability, reasoning), přemýšlivý (studious, thoughtful), přemýšlení (contemplation, muse, speculation, thought), myslící (cogitative), inteligentní (brainy, cultured, discerning, intelligent). (various references) | |
Danish | tankegang, taenkning, taenken, raesonneren. (various references) | |
Dutch | nadenkend (meditative, pensive, thoughtful). (various references) | |
Esperanto | meditema (meditative, pensive, thoughtful). (various references) | |
Finnish | ajattelu (meditation, reflection, thought), ajattelevainen (reflective, thoughtful), ajatteleminen (consideration). (various references) | |
French | pensée (thought). (various references) | |
German | denkend, denken (believe, conceive, conceive of, expect, feel, mind, reasoning, reckon, speculate, suppose, think, thought, thoughts, to think). (various references) | |
Greek | σκέψη (advisement, consideration, contemplation, meditation, pensiveness, reflection, reflexion, rumination, speculation, thought). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחשבה (apprehension, conception, device, idea, mind, skill, think, thought), חושב (thinker), חשיבה (consideration, thought), הוגה (thinker), סבור (of the opinion). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gondolkodás (cogitation, philistinism, reasoning, schoolboy logic, think, thought). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemikiran (consideration). (various references) | |
Italian | pensiero (gift, idea, meaning, mind, opinion, thought, trouble, worry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 思索 (meditation, speculation), 旨 (instructions, principle, purport, relish, show a liking for, will). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しさく (composition of a poem, experiment, measure, meditation, policy, speculation, stay, trial manufacture), しい (arbitrariness, circumference, demonstration, personal opinion, selfishness, show of force, speculation, surroundings, thought), かんがえごと, かんがえ (ideas, intention, thought), かんあん (giving consideration, taking into consideration), むね (breast, chest, instructions, principle, purport, ridge, will). (various references) | |
Korean | 생각 (remembering, thought). (various references) | |
Manx | smooinaghtyn (bethink, cogitate, cogitation, far-away, imagination, reflect, reflecting, think, thought), smooinaghtagh (imaginable, notional, pensive, serious, thoughtful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkingthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pensamento (cogitation, contemplation, impression, meaning, thought). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | pensamos (we are thinking). (various references) | |
Romanian | pãrere (belief, conceit, conviction, dictum, estimate, estimation, hint, idea, judgement, mind, notion, opinion, paradox, say, verdict, view, voice), opinie (apprehension, feeling, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, regard, sentiment, statement, view, voice), minte (brain, imagination, intellect, judgment, mind, nous, pate, reason, savvy, sense, spirit, wisdom, wit, wits), gânditor (meditative, meditatively, mind, mused, museful, musing, notionalist, pensive, speculative, thinker, thoughtful, wistful), gândire (consideration, deliberation, mentation, mind, reflection, reverie, thought, understanding), gând (anticipation, anxiety, brains, conceit, conviction, idea, imagination, intent, recollection, scheme, thought, wish), cugetare (cogitation, thought), cuget (conscience, mind, sense, spirit, thought), concepţie (apprehension, conception, idea, ideology, image, imagination, mind, notion, outlook, principle, realization, school, view), chibzuialã (consideration, prudence, reflexion, rumination), care gândeşte, înţelept (advisedly, nestor, philosopher, philosophic, philosophical, politic, profound, prudent, ripe, sagacious, sage, sapient, well advised, wise, wisely). (various references) | |
Russian | размышление (cogitation, meditation, reasoning, reflection, reflexion, self-communion, speculation), мнение (account, belief, expert evidence, mind, notion, opinion, say, sense, verdict, view, voice), думать мышление. (various references) | |
Scottish | beachdachadh (studying). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamisao (brainchild, conception, idea, plan, project), uman (ingenious), misaon (thoughtful), mišljenje (belief, intent, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, say, view), ideja (brainstorm, concept, idea). (various references) | |
Sotho | nahanne. (various references) | |
Spanish | pensamiento (contemplation, deliberation, foreboding, formulation, judgement, judgment, pansy, reflection, reflexion, thing, think, thought). (various references) | |
Swedish | tänkande (imagining, meditation, reflective, thought). (various references) | |
Turkish | tasavvur (concept, imagination, proposal), fikir (advice, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, concept, conception, estimation, hint, idea, ideo-, impression, inspiration, mind, notion, opinion, position, sentiments, suggestion, think-so, thought, verdict, view, voice), düşünme (cerebration, cogitation, consideration, drift, reck, thought), düşünen (careful, considering, deliberative, regardful), düşünce (apprehension, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, consideration, counsel, fancy, idea, ideo-, judgement, mind, opinion, reasoning, remark, say so, sense, sentiments, thought, voice). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | міркування (case, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, descant, rationale, reflection, reflexion, speculation, think), мислячий (cogitative, intellective, intellectual, reasoning, reflective), думка (advice, assessment, censure, idea, mind, notion, opinion, pronouncement, think, thought, voice), думаючий (cogitative). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | suy xét, suy nghĩ (cogitative, ponderingly, reffectingly), sự trầm tư tư tưởng, sự suy nghĩ (cerebration, rumination), sự nghĩ ngợi (thoughtfulness), nghĩ ngợi, ý nghĩ (channel, idea, mind), ý kiến (accredited, opinion, view). (various references) | |
Welsh | breuddwyd gwrach (wishful thinking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | manangha. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 4, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti o apaggeilaV moi oti teqnhken saoul kai autoV hn wV euaggelizomenoV enwpion mou kai katescon auton kai apekteina en sekelak w edei me dounai euaggelia |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quoniam eum qui adnuntiaverat mihi et dixerat mortuus est Saul qui putabat se prospera nuntiare tenui et occidi in Siceleg cui oportebat me dare mercedem pro nuntio |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For hym that toolde to me and seide, Deed is Saul, the whych wende hym self welsum thingis to telle, I heelde, and slewy hym in Sichelech, to whom it hadde behouid me to yeue mede for the message; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, (thinking to have brought good tidings,) I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news: |
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| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 4, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Sa diha nga may usa nga nagsugilon kanako, nga nagaingon: Ania karon, si Saul namatay, ug naghunahuna siya nga nakadala ug maayong mga balita, ako siyang gikuptan, ug gipatay siya didto sa Siclag, nga maoy balus nga akong gihatag kaniya alang sa iyang mga balita. |
| Croatian | Onaj koji mi je javio da je poginuo Šaul mislio je da mi javlja radosnu vijest, a ja sam ga uhvatio i pogubio u Siklagu da mu platim za njegovu dobru vijest! |
| Danish | Den, som bragte mig Efterretning om Sauls Død, i den Tro at han bragte et Glædesbud, ham greb jeg og lod dræbe i Ziklag for at give ham Løn for hans Glædesbud; |
| Dutch | Dewijl ik hem, die mij boodschapte, zeggende: Zie, Saul is dood; daar hij in zijn ogen was als een, die goede boodschap bracht, nochtans gegrepen en te Ziklag gedood heb, hoewel hij meende, dat ik hem bodenloon zou geven; |
| Finnish | sen, joka ilmoitti minulle ja sanoi: `Katso, Saul on kuollut`, luullen tuovansa ilosanoman, minä otatin kiinni ja surmautin Siklagissa antaakseni hänelle sanansaattajan palkan; |
| French | celui qui est venu me dire: Voici, Saül est mort, et qui croyait m`annoncer une bonne nouvelle, je l`ai fait saisir et tuer à Tsiklag, pour lui donner le salaire de son message; |
| German | ich griff den, der mir verkündigte und sprach: Saul ist tot! und meinte, er wäre ein guter Bote, und erwürgte ihn zu Ziklag, dem ich sollte Botenlohn geben. |
| Haitian Creole | lè moun ki te vin fè m' konnen Sayil te mouri a te kwè se yon bon nouvèl li t'ap pote ban mwen, mwen pran l', mwen fè touye l' lavil Ziklag. Men rekonpans mwen te ba li pou bon nouvèl sa a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika di Ziklag ada orang yang memberitahukan kepadaku tentang wafatnya Saul, dikiranya bahwa dia membawa kabar baik. Tetapi dia telah kutangkap dan kubunuh. Itulah upah yang kuberikan kepadanya sebagai imbalan atas kabar yang dibawanya itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tegal aku di Zikelaj sudah menangkap dan membunuh orang yang membawa kabar kepadaku, sembahnya: Bahwsanya Saul sudah mati! meskipun pada sangkanya ialah orang yang membawa kabar baik dan harapnya beroleh upah kabarnya dari padaku. |
| Italian | se ho preso e ucciso in Ziklàg colui che mi annunziava: Ecco è morto Saul, credendo di portarmi una lieta notizia, per cui dovessi io dargli un compenso, |
| Maori | I te korerotanga mai a tetahi ki ahau, i te meatanga, Nana, kua mate a Haora, tohu noa ia he kaikawe mai ia i nga korero pai, hopukia ana ia e ahau, patua iho ki Tikiraka; ko te utu tera i hoatu e ahau mo tana korero. |
| Norwegian | Den som kom til mig med tidende om at Saul var død, og som selv mente at han kom med en god tidende, ham grep jeg og lot ham drepe i Siklag - ham som jeg skulde ha gitt lønn for god tidende, |
| Portuguese | Se àquele que me trouxe novas, dizendo: Eis que Saul é morto, cuidando que trazia boas novas, eu logo lancei mão dele, e o matei em Ziclague, sendo essa a recompensa que lhe dei pelas novas, |
| Rumanian | cq pe cel ce a venit sq-mi spunq: ,Iatq, Saul a murit`, wi care credea cq-mi aduce o veste bunq, l-am prins wi l-am omorkt la Yiclag, ca sq -l rqsplqtesc pentru wtirea lui; |
| Russian | ЕУМЙ ФПЗП, ЛФП РТЙОЕУ НОЕ ЙЪЧЕУФЙЕ, УЛБЪБЧ: `ЧПФ, ХНЕТ уБХМ`, Й ЛФП УЮЙФБМ УЕВС ТБДПУФОЩН ЧЕУФОЙЛПН, С УИЧБФЙМ Й ХВЙМ ЕЗП Ч уЕЛЕМБЗЕ, ЧНЕУФП ФПЗП, ЮФПВЩ ДБФШ ЕНХ ОБЗТБДХ, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thinking": thinkingly, thinkingness, thinkingnesses, thinkings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "thinking": bethinking, freethinking, misthinking, nonthinking, outthinking, overthinking, rethinking, unthinking. (additional references) | |
Words containing "thinking": freethinkings, nonthinkings, unthinkingly. (additional references) | |
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"Thinking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thinken, thinkings, thunking, tinking. (additional references) | |
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