φρήν
mind
‘mind’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5424 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
1 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.
φρην (phrḗn) is a Greek noun most often rendered “mind.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is 1 Corinthians 14:20. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5424 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: Understanding 2×
- American Standard Version: Mind 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Thinking 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thoughts 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5424 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5424 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5424 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5424 across 2 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.
- the midriff or diaphragm, the parts of the heart
- the faculty of perceiving and judging
Word origin
Derived from φρασσω (phrássō) (G5420) — to block up.
Probably from an obsolete φράω phraō (to rein in or curb ; compare G5420 ); the midrif (as a partition of the body) that is (figuratively and by implication of sympathy) the feelings (or sensitive nature; by extension [also in the plural] the mind or cognitive faculties): - understanding.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5424 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φρεσίν phresín | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 14:20 | 1 |
| φρεσὶν phresìn | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 14:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5424, 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
Derived from this word
- φρασσω phrássō G5420 to block up
- φρεναπατης phrenapátēs G5423 seducer
- φρονεω phronéō G5426 to think
- φρονιμος phrónimos G5429 wise
- φροντιζω phrontízō G5431 to think
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 φρην appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 1 book.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 6:32 φρήν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5424) 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.
- Proverbs 6:32 φρήν He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
- Proverbs 7:7 φρήν I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
- Proverbs 9:4 φρήν "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- Proverbs 11:12 φρήν One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding holds his peace.
- Proverbs 12:11 φρήν He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
- Proverbs 15:21 φρήν Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
- Proverbs 18:2 φρήν A fool has no delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own opinion.
- Proverbs 24:30 φρήν I went by the field of the sluggard, By the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5424) 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.
