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φρόνημαStrong’s G5427

phronēma

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Phronēma is the Greek word usually translated “mind” and “mindset”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”
Romans 8:6 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “mind” and “mindset”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • mind 3
  • mindset 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Romans 3

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

φρόνημα phronēma · purpose

φρόνημα, -τος, τό (φρονέω), [in LXX: 2Ma.7:21 2Mac 13:9 * ;] that which is in the mind (the content of φρονεῖν, ICC, Ro., 88), the thought: Rom.8:6-7, 27.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “purpose” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PUR'POSE, noun

[Latin propositum, propono; pro, before, and pono, to set or place.]

  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure or exertion.
  2. Intention; design.“Every purpose is established by counsel” Proverbs 20:18“Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will” Ephesians 1:11
  3. End; effect; consequence, good or bad.“To what purpose is this waste?” Matthew 26:8
  4. Instance; example. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “purpose”
  1. Conversation. [Not in use.]

PUR'POSE, verb intransitive

To intend; to design; to resolve; to determine on some end or object to be accomplished.

  1. “I have purposed it, I will also do it” Isaiah 46:11“Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem” Acts 19:21

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.