φρόνιμος
wise
‘wise’ 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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Degree
- Comparative
- Expresses a greater degree (“greater,” “more”).
Every verse where G5429 appears in the Book of Romans — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Romans
- Romans 11:25 φρόνιμοι adj nom pl masc For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Romans 12:16 φρόνιμοι adj 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.
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.
“wise” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective φρονιμος (phrónimos). It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It turns up in 14 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 7:24. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5429 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
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 14 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 64%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 14%
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: Wise 11×
- American Standard Version: Wise 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wise 9×, Conceited 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wise 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5429 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5429 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G5429 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5429 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 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.
- intelligent, wise
- prudent, i.e. mindful of one's interests
Word origin
Derived from φρην (phrḗn) (G5424) — mind.
From G5424 ; thoughtful that is sagacious or discreet (implying a cautious character; while G4680 denotes practical skill or acumen; and G4908 indicates rather intelligence or mental acquirement); in a bad sense conceited (also in the comparative): - wise (-r).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5429 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φρόνιμοι phrónimoi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 10:16 | 8 |
| φρονίμοις phronímois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 25:8 | 2 |
| φρόνιμος phrónimos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 24:45 | 2 |
| φρονίμῳ phronímō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 7:24 | 1 |
| φρονιμώτεροι phronimṓteroi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine, Comparative | Luke 16:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5429, 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
- φρονεω phronéō G5426 to think
- φροντιζω phrontízō G5431 to think
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φρονιμος appears 28 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 6 books.
- 28
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:1 φρόνιμος
- 1 Samuel 2:10 φρόνιμος
- 1 Kings 2:35 φρόνιμος
- Proverbs 3:7 φρόνιμος
- Isaiah 44:25 φρόνιμος
- Hosea 13:13 φρόνιμος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5429) 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.
- Genesis 3:1 φρόνιμος Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 41:33 φρόνιμος Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:39 φρόνιμος Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 φρόνιμος 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 φρόνιμος 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 2:46 φρόνιμος So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 3:12 φρόνιμος behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
- 1 Kings 5:10 φρόνιμος So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
- 1 Kings 5:21 φρόνιμος
- Proverbs 3:7 φρόνιμος Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
- Proverbs 11:12 φρόνιμος One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding holds his peace.
- Proverbs 11:29 φρόνιμος He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
- Proverbs 14:6 φρόνιμος A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, But knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
- Proverbs 14:17 φρόνιμος He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, And a crafty man is hated.
- Proverbs 15:1 φρόνιμος A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Proverbs 15:21 φρόνιμος Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
- Proverbs 17:10 φρόνιμος A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
- Proverbs 17:21 φρόνιμος He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
- Proverbs 17:27 φρόνιμος He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
- Proverbs 17:28 φρόνιμος Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
- Proverbs 18:14 φρόνιμος A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, But a crushed spirit, who can bear?
- Proverbs 18:15 φρόνιμος The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
- Proverbs 19:7 φρόνιμος All the relatives of the poor shun him: How much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
- Proverbs 19:25 φρόνιμος Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; Rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
- Proverbs 20:5 φρόνιμος Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
- Isaiah 44:25 φρόνιμος who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
- Hosea 13:13 φρόνιμος The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; For when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5429) 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.
