φρονέω
to think
‘to think’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-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
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 14 distinct
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 7 times (26%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 4 times (15%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 3 times (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 3 times (11%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (4%)
+6 more forms (6 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 27 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5426 appears — 21 distinct verses across 10 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
Romans 6 verses
- Romans 8:5 φρονοῦσιν pres act ind 3pl For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
- Romans 11:20 φρόνει pres act impv 2sg True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
- Romans 12:3 φρονεῖν φρονεῖν pres act inf pres act inf For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
- Romans 12:16 φρονοῦντες φρονοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc pres act ptcp nom pl masc Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.
- Romans 14:6 φρονῶν φρονεῖ pres act ptcp nom sg masc pres act ind 3sg He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
- Romans 15:5 φρονεῖν pres act inf Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Philippians 7 verses
- Philippians 1:7 φρονεῖν pres act inf It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
- Philippians 2:2 φρονῆτε φρονοῦντες pres act subj 2pl pres act ptcp nom pl masc make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
- Philippians 2:5 φρονεῖτε pres act impv 2pl Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
- Philippians 3:15 φρονῶμεν φρονεῖτε pres act subj 1pl pres act ind 2pl Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
- Philippians 3:19 φρονοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
- Philippians 4:2 φρονεῖν pres act inf I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
- Philippians 4:10 φρονεῖν ἐφρονεῖτε pres act inf impf act ind 2pl But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
Colossians 1 verse
1 Timothy 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.
The Greek verb φρονεω centers on the idea of “to think.” Thayer's distinguishes 5 senses for it. The Greek New Testament uses it across 21 verses — uncommon. Philippians dominates its distribution — 7 of 21 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 16:23. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5426 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 →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #500
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 500 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Philippians 7 verses 33%
- Romans 6 verses 29%
- Matthew 1 verse 5%
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 21 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 18 verses · 86%
- Gospels 2 verses · 10%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 5%
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: Mind 6×, Think 4×, Minded 3×
- American Standard Version: Mind 7×, Minded 4×, Thou mindest 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: You do not have in mind 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Think 7×, Thinking 3×, Considering 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5426 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5426 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5426 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5426 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 5 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 have understanding, be wise
- to have an opinion of one's self…
- to think or judge what one's opinion is
- to be of the same mind i.e. agreed together, cherish the same views, be harmonious
- to direct one's mind to a thing, to seek, to strive for
Word origin
Derived from φρην (phrḗn) (G5424) — mind.
From G5424 ; to exercise the mind that is entertain or have a sentiment or opinion ; by implication to be (mentally) disposed (more or less earnestly in a certain direction); intensively to interest oneself in (with concern or obedience): - set the affection on (be) care (-ful) (be like- + be of one + be of the same + let this) mind (-ed regard savour think.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G5426 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5426, 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
- φρασσω phrássō G5420 to block up
- φρεναπατης phrenapátēs G5423 seducer
- φρονιμος phrónimos G5429 wise
- φροντιζω phrontízō G5431 to think
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φρονεω appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 6 verses in 4 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 6
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 32:29 φρονέω
- Psalms 93:8 φρονέω
- Isaiah 44:18 φρονέω
- Zechariah 9:2 φρονέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5426) 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:29 φρονέω Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
- Psalms 93:8 φρονέω
- Isaiah 44:18 φρονέω They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
- Isaiah 44:28 φρονέω Who says of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and of the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
- Isaiah 56:10 φρονέω His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Zechariah 9:2 φρονέω And Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5426) 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.
