Phrontizo means “be careful” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5431 — caan (“warrior”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5431 φροντίζω (phrontizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phrontizo (fron-tid'-zo) v. 1. to exercise thought, i.e. be anxious [from a derivative of G5424] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include careful. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
phrontizo (fron-tid'-zo) v. 1. to exercise thought, i.e. be anxious [from a derivative of G5424] KJV: be careful Root(s): G5424
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5431. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
be careful
Usage: φροντίζω (φροντίς, thought), [in LXX: 1Ki.9:5 (דָּאַג), Psa.40:17 (חָשַׁב), al. ;] to give heed, take thought (in cl. usually absol., with accusative, with genitive), with inf., Tit.3:8 (see Bl., § 69, 4; M, Pr., 206 f.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phrontizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5431 (φροντίζω) appears 14 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And when they came to Siph, then Saul said to his young man that was with him, Come and let us return, lest my father leave the asses, and take care for us.
For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, And that which I had feared has befallen me.
But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; Thou art my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.
10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Shebat:
we have been careful, that they that will read may have delight, and that they that are desirous to commit to memory might have ease, and that all into whose hands it comes might have profit.
Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of King Ptolemy Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5431.
And when they came to Siph, then Saul said to his young man that was with him, Come and let us return, lest my father leave the asses, and take care for us.
For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, And that which I had feared has befallen me.
But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; Thou art my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.
Her husband is not anxious about those at home when he tarries anywhere abroad: For all her household are clothed.
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Shebat:
we have been careful, that they that will read may have delight, and that they that are desirous to commit to memory might have ease, and that all into whose hands it comes might have profit.
Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of King Ptolemy Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honor and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
Then Maccabeus consented to all that Lysias desired, being careful of the common good; and whatsoever Maccabeus wrote unto Lysias concerning the Jews, the king granted it.
Now when I considered these things in myself, And pondered them in my heart, How that to be allied unto wisdom is immortality;
Be not surety above thy power: For if thou be surety, take care to pay it.
He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: He that taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering.
Have regard to thy name; for that shall continue with thee Above a thousand great treasures of gold.
He took care of the temple that it should not fall, And fortified the city against besieging:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5431, grouped by book.
Phrontizo (Strong's G5431) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be careful". phrontizo (fron-tid'-zo) v. 1. to exercise thought, i.e. be anxious [from a derivative of G5424]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G5431 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5431 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as careful. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5431, with linked reader references where each row is available.