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Lexicon :: Strong's G5428 - phronēsis

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φρόνησις
Transliteration
phronēsis (Key)
Pronunciation
fron'-ay-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:220,1277

Trench's Synonyms: lxxv. σοφία, φρόνησις, γνῶσις, ἐπίγνωσις.

Strong’s Definitions

φρόνησις phrónēsis, fron'-ay-sis; from G5426; mental action or activity, i.e. intellectual or moral insight:—prudence, wisdom.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G5428 in the following manner: wisdom (1x), prudence (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G5428 in the following manner: wisdom (1x), prudence (1x).

  1. understanding

  2. knowledge and holy love of the will of God

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φρόνησις phrónēsis, fron'-ay-sis; from G5426; mental action or activity, i.e. intellectual or moral insight:—prudence, wisdom.
STRONGS G5428:
φρόνησις, φρονήσεως, ἡ (φρονέω), understanding: joined with σοφία (as 1 Kings 4:25 (29); Daniel 1:17, Theod.; ἡ σοφία ἀνδρί τίκτει φρόνησιν, Proverbs 10:23), Ephesians 1:8 (A. V. prudence; see σοφία, at the end); specifically, knowledge and holy love of the will of God (A. V. wisdom), Luke 1:17 (Wis. 3:15; the Sept. for בִּינָה, תְּבוּנָה, חָכְמָה; used variously by Greek writers from Sophocles and Euripides down).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
4:25
Proverbs
10:23
Daniel
1:17
Luke
1:17
Ephesians
1:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5428 matches the Greek φρόνησις (phronēsis),
which occurs 9 times in 9 verses in '1Ki' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:28 - Then all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had [fn]handed down, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 -

And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of understanding in his heart, like the sand that is on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - And Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:4 - Then the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:6 - Then she said to the king, “The word is true which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:8 - “How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:23 -

So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:24 - And all the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:41 -

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

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