noun · neuter
fruganem
Strong’sG5434
a dry stick for burning
stem frugan-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
φρύγανον, -ου, τό
(< φρύγω, to parch), [in LXX chiefly for קַשׁ, also for חָרוּל, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5434 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfroo'-gan-on
akin to the base of G5395); something desiccated, i.e. a dry twig
Fromneuter of a presumed derivative of φρύγω (to roast or parch;
King Jamesstick.
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
(φρύγω) dry stick; mostly in plural, firewood, NT+5th c.BC+: singular only in collective sense ={τὰ φρύγανα}, μαντικῶς τὸ φ. τίθεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+
II undershrub, opposed to δένδρα, θάμνος, πόα, defined as τὸ ἀπὸ ῥίζης πολυστέλεχες καὶ πολύκλαδον, Refs 4th 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.
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 or object direct | fruganem | fruganeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | fruganeu | fruganeiu1×φρυγάνων |
| to, for dative | frugane | fruganei |
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
frugane 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
fruganeiu“sticks”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 28:3sustrefarantou de tou Paulou fruganeiu tinem plēthem kai epititharantou epi tan …Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on …