φραγῇ, (phrage) in Romans 3:19: Verb Third Person Singular Second Aorist Passive Subjunctive

Verb: the form pictures every mouth being stopped, removing speech that could answer the law's charge.

Second Aorist: presents the silencing as a complete effect within the purpose-result clause. It does not require a single instantaneous event in time.

Passive: every mouth receives the stopping action. No separate agent is expressed in the verb, although the law's speech and accountability to God frame the result.

Subjunctive: appears after ἵνα to express the intended or resulting outcome. This construction does not make the silencing merely uncertain.

Third person: speaks about the subject every mouth rather than addressing it directly.

Not applicable to the finite verb; the nominative phrase πᾶν στόμα serves as its subject.

Singular: agrees with the distributive phrase every mouth, which reaches comprehensively through individual members.

Not applicable to verbal agreement; the subject phrase is neuter, but this finite form does not encode gender.

The verb agrees with πᾶν στόμα inside a ἵνα clause and is coordinated with γένηται, which states that the whole world becomes accountable to God.

The statement that whatever the law says, it speaks to those within its hearing, followed by ἵνα to name the purpose or result.

It supplies the first outcome: every mouth is stopped before the second outcome declares the whole world accountable.

It does not forbid confession or prayer, imply that accountability might not occur, or identify a hidden grammatical agent with certainty.

High: The verb expresses the silencing outcome that joins the law's speech to universal accountability.

Aorist passive subjunctive in a ἵνα clause. states the first intended or resulting effect of the law's testimony. Attached to πᾶν στόμα as subject and the coordinated γένηται clause. Governed by ἵνα following the statement of what the law says. The clause construction licenses the subjunctive and controls its interpretation.

What happens to human defenses when the law's testimony is heard? Every mouth is silenced, and the coordinated statement declares the whole world accountable to God.

Direct: Passive subjunctive morphology directly supports may be silenced in the ἵνα purpose-result construction.

Purpose and result can overlap in this construction; both keep the form tied to the law's stated effect. The passive verb does not name an explicit agent, so agency should be explained from the larger clause with care. Every mouth is distributive singular language with comprehensive rhetorical scope.

Subjunctive means maybe: After ἵνα, the mood belongs to the purpose-result construction and does not express simple uncertainty. aorist means instantaneous: Aorist aspect views the stopping as a whole without measuring its duration. silenced means all speech is wrong: The courtroom image concerns the end of successful defense against the law's charge.

Romans 3:19 reads ἵνα πᾶν στόμα φραγῇ and marks φραγῇ V-2APS-3S before the coordinated accountability clause.

The lemma φράσσω means to stop or close. Applied to every mouth, it creates a courtroom image of defenses brought to silence.

The ἵνα construction explains the subjunctive, the singular verb agrees with the distributive subject, and passive voice presents the mouth as receiving the stopping. The following καὶ clause states the related accountability.

The law's scriptural testimony leaves no successful human defense and brings the whole world under answerability to God before verse 20 denies justification by law works.

This silencing prepares Romans 3:21-26, where righteousness is revealed through faith and justification is given by grace rather than secured by human reply.

Read the two outcomes together: every mouth stopped, the whole world accountable. Then follow Paul's argument into the need for God's provided righteousness.

Do not make subjunctive mood express doubt, make aorist aspect prove instantaneous silence, or extend the mouth image into a ban on all speech.