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Words
φρόνιμος G5429
- Home gloss
- prudent
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- subtil / subtle / prudent
- Note
- A word of praise: "be prudent as the serpents" (Matt 10:16; 7:24; 25:2). See 3:1
- Rulings
- 2, 57
Occurrences (1)
- 3:1 And the two were naked, both Adam and his woman, and they were not ashamed. Now the serpent was most prudent of all the beasts that are on the land, which the Lord God had made; and the serpent said to the woman, "Why is it that God said, 'You shall not eat from every wood of the paradise'?"