φρήν
phrḗn · G5424 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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thoughtful planning, way of thinking, outlook
The psychological faculty of thoughtful planning, often with the implication of being wise and provident
Examples1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 3 words
- καρδία kardía · G2588 · heart, inner self, mind
- The primary NT Greek word for the inner person as seat of thought, emotion, and volition—essentially synonymous with φρήν's figurative use for the mind/feelings, though φρήν is far rarer
- νοῦς noûs · G3563 · mind, way of thinking, disposition
- The standard Greek term for mind/intellect/understanding, overlapping substantially with φρήν's sense of the faculty of thought and mental disposition
- ψυχή psychḗ · G5590 · inner self, mind, thoughts
- Greek term for the soul/inner life/self that can denote the seat of emotions and feelings, overlapping with φρήν's reference to the sensitive nature and feelings
In the other Testament 1 word
- לֵב lêb · H3820 · heart, mind, attention
- The primary Hebrew term for the seat of thought, emotion, and will, functioning as the closest translation equivalent for φρήν's figurative sense of 'mind/understanding/seat of mental and emotional activity'
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Thoughtful planning, way of thinking, outlook26.15
- 1 Corinthians 14:20 urges, “do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.”
Word family 24 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root φρήν
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φρενος, ἡ, plural φρένες, from Homer down, the Sept. several times in Proverbs for לֵב:…
1. the midriff or diaphragm, the parts about the heart.
2. the mind; the faculty of perceiving and judging: also in the plural; as, 1 Cor 14:20.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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