frenas

Strong’sG5424

the mind, intellect

stem fren-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

φρήν gen., φρενός, ἡ,

[in LXX most freq. in Pr (6:32, al.) and chiefly for לֵב; also III Mac 4:16 5:47;]

chiefly in Hom. and Trag., but also in Plat., al., both sing. and pl.;

1. in physical sense, the parts about the heart, midriff.

2. heart, mind, thought: pl., I Co 14:20 (v. Edwards, Eng.-Gr. Lex., App., 1).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5424 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfrane

the midrif (as a partition of the body), i.e. (figuratively and by implication, of sympathy) the feelings (or sensitive nature; by extension (also in the plural) the mind or cognitive faculties)

Fromprobably from an obsolete φράω (to rein in or curb; compare G5420);

King Jamesunderstanding.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

φρήν, ἡ,
genitive φρενός, plural φρένες, genitive φρενῶν, dative φρεσί: older dative plural φρασί (ν) Refs 6th c.BC+:
I midriff, κραδία φρένα λακτίζει Refs 4th c.BC+; elsewhere always in plural, ἔνθα φρένες ἔρχαται ἀμφ᾽ ἁδινὸν κῆρ Refs 8th c.BC+; τὰς φρένας διάφραγμα εἰς τὸ μέσον αὐτῶν (i.e. τοῦ θώρακος καὶ τοῦ κύτους) τιθέντες Refs 8th c.BC+
I.2 heart, as seat of the passions, e.g. of fear, τρομέοντο δέ οἱ φρένες ἐντός Refs 8th c.BC+; of joy and grief, φρένα τέρπεσθαι φόρμιγγι Refs; of anger, Refs 8th c.BC+; of courage, ἕνα φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες Refs 8th c.BC+, etc.; of bodily appetites, such as hunger, etc., Refs: the shades of the dead are without it, ψυχὴ καὶ εἴδωλον, ἀτὰρ φρένες οὐκ ἔνι πάμπαν Refs (except the shade of Teiresias, Refs 8th c.BC+: so generally in Poets, φρενὸς ἔνδοθεν ἄλγεα κεῖται Refs 6th c.BC+; ἐκ φρενός from one's very heart, ὁ ἐκ φρενὸς λόγος a sincere speech, Refs; οὐκ ἀπ᾽ ἄκρας φρενός not superficially and carelessly, Refs; φῦσαι φρένας to produce a haughty spirit, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.3 mind, as seat of the mental faculties, perception, thought, ἔγνω ᾗσιν ἐνὶ φ. Refs 8th c.BC+; μετὰ φρεσὶ μερμηρίξαι, βάλλεσθαι, Refs 8th c.BC+; τῷ γὰρ ἐπὶ φρεσί θῆκε put in his mind, suggested it,Refs; ἐπιγνάμπτει φρένας (variant for{νόον}) ἐσθλῶν Refs; ἀνὴρ φρένας ἀφνειός rich (only) in his imagination, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀρθᾷ, ἐλευθέρᾳ φρενί, Refs 8th c.BC+: plural, wits, Κύκλωπα περὶ φρένας ἤλυθε οἶνος Refs 8th c.BC+: of losing one's wits, φρενῶν ἀφεστάναι, ἐκστῆναι, μεθεστάναι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔξεδροι, παράκοποι, Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons in their senses, ἐπήβολος φρενῶν Refs 5th c.BC+ (so in later Prose, οἱ φρένας ἔχοντες Refs 5th c.BC+; φρένες, opposed to σῶμα, Refs 5th c.BC+; attributed to animals, μετὰ φρεσὶ γίγνεται ἀλκή Refs 8th c.BC+—The word is not common in early Prose, τίς αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρή; Refs 1st c.AD+; συμφορὰ τῶν φ., i.e. madness, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.4 will, purpose, οὔ τι Διὸς βέομαι φρεσίν Refs 8th c.BC+.—In usage there is little or no distinction observable between singular and plural, but the singular is not found in Prose (except Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

thinking2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	frenas	frenais
object accusative	frenan	frenain
direct address vocative	frenar	frenair
of, belonging to genitive	frenau	frenaiu
to, for dative	frena	frenai2×φρεσίν

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

frenstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

frena is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

frenai“thinking”to, fordative plural2×

1 Corinthians 14:20Adelfoir, mē paidieim genovōr tai frenai, alla ta kakia nēpiazavōr, tai de …… evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 14:20… alla ta kakia nēpiazavōr, tai de frenai teleiois genovōr.Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil …