φύω
to grow
‘to grow’ is one of 3 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5453 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 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.
Hebrews
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.
φυω (phýō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to grow.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Luke, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. Debuting at Luke 8:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. 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 G5453 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.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 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 →
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.
- Gospels 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 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: Soon as it was sprung up 1×, Sprang up 1×, Springing 1×
- American Standard Version: Grew 1×, Soon as it grew 1×, Springing 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Came up 1×, Sprang up 1×, Springs 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having grown up 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5453 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5453 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5453 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5453 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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 beget, bring forth, produce
- to be born, to spring up, to grow
- to shoot forth, spring up
Word origin
Origin: "a primary verb, probably originally, to "puff" or blow, i.e. to swell up"
A primary verb; probably originally to puff or blow that is to swell up; but only used in the implied sense to germinate or grow ( sprout produce ) literally or figuratively : - spring (up).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5453 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φυὲν phyèn | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 8:6 | 2 |
| φύουσα phýousa | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 12:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5453, 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.
Derived from this word
- φυλη phylḗ G5443 tribe
- φυραμα phýrama G5445 lump
- φυσις phýsis G5449 nature
- φυτευω phyteúō G5452 to plant
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φυω appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 7 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 10:5 φύω
- Deuteronomy 29:17 φύω
- Proverbs 11:30 φύω
- Song of Solomon 5:13 φύω
- Isaiah 37:31 φύω
- Ezekiel 37:8 φύω
- Daniel 3:76 φύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5453) 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.
- Exodus 10:5 φύω and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
- Deuteronomy 29:17 φύω and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
- Proverbs 11:30 φύω The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
- Proverbs 26:9 φύω Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- Song of Solomon 5:13 φύω His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
- Isaiah 37:31 φύω The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- Ezekiel 37:8 φύω I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
- Daniel 3:76 φύω
- Daniel 4:3 φύω How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5453) 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.
