Word

φιμόω

phimóō · G5392 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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MuzzleAgriculture and farming7 verses

Meanings

to muzzle, to keep from eating

To put something over or around the mouths of animals so as to prevent them from eating

Examples
1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
to silence

To cause someone to have nothing to say

Examples
Matthew 22:34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
Luke 4:35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, it came out of him without doing him any harm.
1 Peter 2:15 For such is the will of God, that by doing right you silence the ignorance of foolish people.
to stop making a sound or become quiet

To cause someone or something to cease to make a sound

Examples
Mark 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”
Mark 4:39 And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.
to have nothing to say

To say nothing, with the implication of being prevented from speaking

Examples
Matthew 22:12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

8 occurrences in 4 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 5
ὁthe (definite article) 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

ἀλοάωto thresh 2
Σαδδουκαῖοςa Sadducæan 1
ἀγνωσίαignorance 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

οὐnot 2

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 2 groups

λέγωto say 3
γράφωto write 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 4 entries

To muzzle, to keep from eating44.6: 1 Corinthians 9:9 quotes the Law, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING.”
To stop making a sound, to become quiet14.86: Mark 4:39 recounts that Jesus rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.”
To have nothing to say, to say nothing33.122: Matthew 22:12 tells of the man who had no wedding clothes, and “was speechless”.
To silence33.123: Matthew 22:34 recounts that the Pharisees heard “that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees”.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φίμω (infinitive φιμοιν, 1 Pet 2:15 WH (see their Appendix, p. 166 and Introductory §…

φίμω (infinitive φιμοιν, 1 Pet 2:15 WH (see their Appendix, p. 166 and Introductory § 410; Buttmann, 44 (38); see ἀποδεκατόω); future φιμώσω; 1 aorist ἐφιμωσα: passive, perfect imperative 2 person singular πεφίμωσο; 1 aorist ἐφιμώθην; (φιμός a muzzle); to close the mouth with a muzzle, to muzzle: properly, βοῦν, the ox, 1 Cor 9:9 R G L WH text (see κημόω); 1 Tim 5:18, from Deut 25:4 where for חָסַם; (universally, to fasten, compress, τῷ ξύλῳ τόν αὐχένα τίνος, Aristophanes nub. 592); metaphorically, to stop the mouth, make speechless, reduce to silence: τινα, Mt 22:34; 1 Pet 2:15; passive, to become speechless, hold one's peace, Mt 22:12; Mk 1:25; Mk 4:39; Lk 4:35, (Josephus, b. j. prooem. § 5; book 1, 22, 3; Lucian, de morte peregr. 15; universally, to be kept in check, 4 Macc. 1:35).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Sound2 occurrences Keep Silent4 occurrences Animal Husbandry, Fishing4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0