φρόνησις
wisdom
‘wisdom’ 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
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5428 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Luke
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, φρονησις (phrónēsis) means “wisdom.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in Luke 1:17. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5428 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 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 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
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: Prudence 1×, Wisdom 1×
- American Standard Version: Prudence 1×, Walk in the wisdom 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Understanding 1×, Wisdom 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Understanding 1×, Wisdom 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5428 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5428 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5428 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5428 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.
- understanding
- knowledge and holy love of the will of God
Word origin
Derived from φρονεω (phronéō) (G5426) — to think.
From G5426 ; mental action or activity that is intellectual or moral insight : - prudence wisdom.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5428, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φρονησις appears 37 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 9 books.
- 37
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 34
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Joshua 5:1 φρόνησις
- 1 Samuel 2:10 φρόνησις
- 1 Kings 2:35 φρόνησις
- Job 5:13 φρόνησις
- Proverbs 1:2 φρόνησις
- Isaiah 40:28 φρόνησις
- Jeremiah 10:12 φρόνησις
- Ezekiel 28:4 φρόνησις
- Daniel 1:17 φρόνησις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5428) 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.
- Joshua 5:1 φρόνησις It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 φρόνησις Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 1 Kings 2:35 φρόνησις The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- 1 Kings 3:28 φρόνησις All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
- 1 Kings 5:9 φρόνησις My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
- 1 Kings 5:10 φρόνησις So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
- 1 Kings 10:4 φρόνησις When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
- 1 Kings 10:6 φρόνησις She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
- 1 Kings 10:8 φρόνησις Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
- 1 Kings 10:23 φρόνησις So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
- 1 Kings 10:24 φρόνησις All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
- 1 Kings 11:41 φρόνησις Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
- Job 5:13 φρόνησις He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- Job 17:4 φρόνησις For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.
- Proverbs 1:2 φρόνησις To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
- Proverbs 3:13 φρόνησις Happy is the man who finds wisdom, The man who gets understanding.
- Proverbs 3:19 φρόνησις By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
- Proverbs 7:4 φρόνησις Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
- Proverbs 8:1 φρόνησις Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
- Proverbs 8:14 φρόνησις Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
- Proverbs 9:6 φρόνησις Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
- Proverbs 9:16 φρόνησις "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- Proverbs 10:23 φρόνησις It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, But wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.
- Proverbs 14:29 φρόνησις He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who has a quick temper displays folly.
- Proverbs 16:12 φρόνησις It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, For the throne is established by righteousness.
- Proverbs 19:8 φρόνησις He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.
- Proverbs 24:5 φρόνησις A wise man has great power; And a knowledgeable man increases strength;
- Proverbs 30:2 φρόνησις "Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.
- Isaiah 40:28 φρόνησις Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
- Isaiah 44:19 φρόνησις None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
- Jeremiah 10:12 φρόνησις He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
- Ezekiel 28:4 φρόνησις by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
- Daniel 1:17 φρόνησις Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
- Daniel 2:23 φρόνησις I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5428) 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.
