φραγέλλιον (phragéllion) names a whip or scourge and occurs once, in John 2:15. Jesus makes a whip of cords in the temple scene, pours out coins, overturns tables, and drives out the sheep and oxen.
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φραγέλλιον (phragéllion) names a whip or scourge and occurs once, in John 2:15. Jesus makes a whip of cords in the temple scene, pours out coins, overturns tables, and drives out the sheep and oxen.
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include a whip (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at John 2:15. Its strongest book concentrations include John (1).
G5416 names a whip or scourge and occurs once, in John 2:15. Jesus makes a whip of cords in the temple scene, pours out coins, overturns tables, and drives out the sheep and oxen. The sentence's grammar and the wider scene must determine how the instrument relates to people and animals; the noun alone does not prove whom Jesus struck. John governs interpretation through the enacted sign, the temple setting, Jesus' own words, and the disciples' later remembrance.
The episode must not become permission for religious violence, corporal punishment, coercive control, retaliation, property destruction, or impulsive anger. Teachers should preserve the scene's force while refusing to transfer Jesus' unique authority to leaders, parents, spouses, institutions, or crowds.
John 2:15 uses φραγέλλιον for the whip of cords Jesus makes in the temple-cleansing scene.
G5416 keeps John 2 concrete: Jesus makes a corded whip and acts publicly in the temple courts. Yet the noun does not settle every disputed detail of the scene, including whether the whip contacts people. John frames the action through Jesus' words about his Father's house and the disciples' later remembrance. Preaching should preserve the seriousness of the sign without offering cover for religious violence, abuse, punitive parenting, intimidation, or vigilantism.
In John 2, φραγέλλιον contributes to the scene of Jesus' authoritative temple cleansing under the claim of the Father's house.
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Greek word. whip
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
a scourge, lash
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
φραγέλλιον is built from this root:
This word opens the seriousness of Jesus' temple action without turning His unique authority into ordinary human license.
It corrects tame readings of John 2 that miss the force of Jesus' enacted sign.
Frame φραγέλλιον as a concrete instrument in Jesus' temple cleansing, governed by His identity and His words.