φράσσω
to block up
‘to block up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G5420 appears in the Future tense, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, φρασσω (phrássō) means “to block up.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 3 verses. Its uses concentrate in Romans (33% of all occurrences). It first appears in Romans 3:19. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5420 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 33%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 33%
- Hebrews 1 verse 33%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: May be stopped 1×, Stopped 1×
- American Standard Version: May be stopped 1×, Stopped 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: May be silenced 1×, Shut 1×, Will not be silenced 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be shut 1×, May be shut 1×, Shut 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5420 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5420 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5420 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5420 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to fence in, block up, stop up, close up
- to put to silence
Word origin
Derived from φρην (phrḗn) (G5424) — mind.
Apparently a strengthened form of the base of G5424 ; to fence or inclose that is (specifically) to block up (figuratively to silence ): - stop.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5420 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φραγήσεται phragḗsetai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 11:10 | 1 |
| φραγῇ phragē̂ | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 3:19 | 1 |
| ἔφραξαν éphraxan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Hebrews 11:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5420, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- φρεναπατης phrenapátēs G5423 seducer
- φρονεω phronéō G5426 to think
- φρονιμος phrónimos G5429 wise
- φροντιζω phrontízō G5431 to think
Derived from this word
- σφραγις sphragís G4973 seal
- φραγμος phragmós G5418 fence
- φραζω phrázō G5419 to declare
- φρην phrḗn G5424 mind
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φρασσω appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 6 verses in 5 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 6
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 38:8 φράσσω
- Proverbs 21:13 φράσσω
- Song of Solomon 7:3 φράσσω
- Daniel 8:26 φράσσω
- Hosea 2:8 φράσσω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5420) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 38:8 φράσσω "Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,
- Proverbs 21:13 φράσσω Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
- Proverbs 25:26 φράσσω Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, So is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
- Song of Solomon 7:3 φράσσω Your two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe.
- Daniel 8:26 φράσσω The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days [to come].
- Hosea 2:8 φράσσω For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5420) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
