What does ὁμόφρων (homóphrōn) mean in the Bible?
G3675 describes people who are like-minded or who share a disposition. Its one governed New Testament form addresses all the recipients of 1 Peter 3:8.
Greek · G3675
ὁμόφρων
Like-minded
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ὁμόφρων G3675
Pronunciation homóphrōn
What does ὁμόφρων (homóphrōn) mean in the Bible?
G3675 describes people who are like-minded or who share a disposition. Its one governed New Testament form addresses all the recipients of 1 Peter 3:8.
Reader summary
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3675?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include [be] like-minded (1).
Where does ὁμόφρων (homóphrōn) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Peter 3:8. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1).
What This Word Actually Means
G3675 describes people who are like-minded or who share a disposition. Its one governed New Testament form addresses all the recipients of 1 Peter 3:8. The adjective begins a cluster that also calls them sympathetic, loving as brothers and sisters, compassionate, and humble. Those neighboring virtues show the kind of shared outlook Peter commends; they are not extra meanings packed into the adjective.
The single occurrence does not require identical personalities, preferences, political judgments, emotional responses, or conclusions on every secondary question. It also does not grant a leader power to define unity as agreement with that leader. Peter addresses the whole community, and the next verse forbids repaying evil or insult in kind. A shared Christian posture is therefore accountable to humility, care, and nonretaliation rather than institutional quiet or forced consent.
Wider passages about unity can help readers place 1 Peter's instruction within the New Testament, but they are canonical parallels rather than additional uses of G3675. Application should preserve conscience, honest questions, lament, cultural difference, disability, and truthful disclosure of harm. Reports of abuse or danger must not be treated as failures of like-mindedness.
Lexical sourcePassage contextBook contextPastoral applicationCanonical parallel
How the Bible Uses It
The entire governed witness is the nominative masculine plural form at 1 Peter 3:8. It addresses the community as a whole and belongs to a five-part description of its life together.
- 1Pet.3.8
Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic
Like-mindedness stands within a relational cluster rather than as an isolated command for intellectual uniformity. The whole church is summoned toward a common posture marked by concern and humility.
Passage context
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It [be] like-minded 1× 1 Peter 3:8
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row 1 Peter 3:8
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
1 Peter 1
Source forms
ὁμόφρονες 1x homophrones 1 Peter 3:8
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 1x 1 Peter 3:8
Using This Word Well
Be careful not to...
- Practice a shared Christward posture through listening, humility, care, truth, and refusal to retaliate.
- Test calls for unity by whether they permit questions, accountability, and protection of people at risk.
- Seek safeguarding, legal, medical, or emergency help when unity language is being used to conceal danger.
Avoid claiming...
- Do not claim that Christians must reach the same judgment on every secondary issue.
- Do not claim that disagreement with a leader is automatically rebellion against Christian unity.
- Do not claim that reporting abuse, coercion, discrimination, or danger violates like-mindedness.
- Do not claim that this single adjective establishes the whole doctrine or practice of church unity.
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Unity of purpose and outlook within community, not merely agreement but shared conviction and mindset.
Strong's G3675
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link 1 Peter 3:8-12 Source Gloss
like-minded
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Unity of purpose and outlook within community, not merely agreement but shared conviction and mindset.
(ὁμός, φρήν), = ὁμόνοος, agreeing, of one mind: 1Pe.3:8.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
1 Peter 3:8 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ὁμόφρονες, omofronev
of one mind
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.
Grammatical Forms
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.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Nominative (1) Number pattern Plural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine 1 Pet 3:8 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
of one mind, harmonious in outlook
Word Origins
ὁμόφρων is built from these roots:
ὁμοῦ G3674
+ φρήν G5424
Why This Word Matters
Emphasizes shared gospel-centered thinking as the foundation of church unity. 1 Peter 3:8-12
For the Preacher and Teacher
G3675 appears once, so responsible teaching lets 1 Peter 3:8 set the boundaries. Peter addresses everyone, not merely members under a leader, and places like-mindedness beside sympathy, family love, compassion, and humility. The following rejection of retaliation further tests what unity looks like under pressure. Shared Christian orientation therefore cannot be measured by silence, personality sameness, or automatic agreement with the strongest voice.
It is a mutual readiness to seek faithfulness together with care and humility. Wider unity texts can support a canonical theology, but this adjective alone cannot decide every dispute. In practice, unity must leave room for conscience, questions, lament, cultural difference, disability, correction, and truthful reporting of harm.
Anchor passage
1Pet.3.8
Doctrinal connections
- 1 Peter 2:9-12 - shared identity and honorable conduct among the nations
- 1 Peter 3:8-12 - communal virtues, nonretaliation, blessing, and peace
- Romans 14:1-15:7 - welcome across disputed judgments without contempt
- Philippians 2:1-11 - unity joined to humility and attention to others
- Ephesians 4:1-16 - unity practiced through patience, truth, and varied gifts
The sole form is a nominative masculine plural adjective used predicatively within a sequence addressed to all the readers. The plural supports a mutual community application. Morphology does not establish unanimity on every matter, identify a human authority who determines the shared mind, or import the meanings of the neighboring adjectives.
From Old to New Testament
Israel's Scriptures commend covenant faithfulness, truthful judgment, care for neighbors, and peace within the community. Those themes can provide theological background for Christian life together, but no direct Hebrew equivalent or lexical lineage should be asserted from an English gloss alone.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain