noun · feminine
fronēsias
Strong’sG5428
understanding
stem fronēsi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
φρόνησις, -εως, ἡ
(< φρονέω), [in LXX for בִּינָה, תְּבוּנָה, חׇכְמָה, etc.;]
SYN.: v.s. σοφία, and cf. Lft., Notes, 317.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5428 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfron'-ay-sis
mental action or activity, i.e. intellectual or moral insight
Fromfrom G5426;
King Jamesprudence, wisdom.
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
purpose, intention, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 thought, ἰδία φ., opposed to λόγος ξυνός, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 sense, εἴ τις ἄρα τοῖς ἐκεῖ φ. περὶ τῶν ἐνθάδε γιγνομένων Refs 5th c.BC+
4 judgment, κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν φ. οὐδεὶς εὐτυχεῖ Refs 4th c.BC+
5 arrogance, pride, Refs 5th c.BC+; also in good sense, τὸ φῦναι πατρὸς εὐγενοῦς ἄπο ὅσην ἔχει φρόνησιν just pride, Refs
II practical wisdom, prudence in government and affairs, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to σῶμα, Refs; opposed to ῥώμη, Refs 5th c.BC+; also attributed to sagacious animals, Refs 4th c.BC+
III Refs 4th c.BC+ name for three, Refs
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.
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 | fronēsias | fronēsiais |
| object accusative | fronēsian | fronēsiain |
| direct address vocative | fronēsiar | fronēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | fronēsiau | fronēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | fronēsia2×φρονήσει | fronēsiai |
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
fronēsia 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
fronēsia“wisdom”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 1:17… patroiu epi tekneim kai apeithoin en fronēsia dikaioiu, hetoimazara kurio laon kataskeuazorēnton.… children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous — to make ready …
Ephesians 1:8“insight”… eis nin en panta sofia kai fronēsia… He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.