- Original: φιμόω
- Transliteration: Phimoo
- Phonetic: fee-mo'-o
- Definition:
1. to close the mouth with a muzzle, to muzzle
2. metaph.
a. to stop the mouth, make speechless, reduce to silence
b. to become speechless
3. to be kept in check
- Origin: from phimos (a muzzle)
- TDNT entry: None
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: From φιμός phimos (a muzzle); to muzzle: - muzzle.
Total KJV Occurrences: 4
• muzzle, 2
1 Corinthians 9:9;
1 Timothy 5:18
• silence, 2
Mat 22:34;
1 Peter 2:15