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Strong's G5420 · Greek

φράσσω

phrasso · fras'-so

apparently a strengthening form of the base of 5424; to fence or inclose, i.e. (specially), to block up (figuratively, to silence)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

φράσσω (G5420)

4 φράσσω [in LXX: Jb 38:8 ( סָכַךְ hi.), Ho 2:6(8) ( שׂוּךְ ), Pr 21:13 ( אָטַם ), etc. ;] to fence in, stop, close : στόματα λεόντων , He 11:33 ; στόμα , metaph., Ro 3:19 ; pass., καύχησις , II Co 11:10 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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