Quick Definition
φιμόω v. I muzzle, silence
Strong's Definition
from phimos (a muzzle); to muzzle
KJV Usage: muzzle
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb
44.6 · Animal Husbandry, Fishing
to muzzle, to keep from eating to put something over or around the mouths of animals so as to prevent them from eating In some languages it may be necessary to employ some type of descriptive equivalent of ‘to muzzle,’ for example, ‘do not tie the mouth of the ox so that it cannot eat’ or ‘do not cover the mouth of the ox so that it cannot eat.’
verb
44.6 · Animal Husbandry, Fishing
to muzzle, to keep from eating to put something over or around the mouths of animals so as to prevent them from eating In some languages it may be necessary to employ some type of descriptive equivalent of ‘to muzzle,’ for example, ‘do not tie the mouth of the ox so that it cannot eat’ or ‘do not cover the mouth of the ox so that it cannot eat.’
33.123 · Communication · Keep Silent
to silence to cause someone to have nothing to say
14.86 · Physical Events and States · Sound
to stop making a sound, to become quiet to cause to cease to make a sound
33.122 · (φιμοῦμαι) · Communication · Keep Silent
to have nothing to say, to say nothing to have nothing to say, with the implication of being prevented from speaking (compare φιμός ‘muzzle,’ not occurring in the NT)
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κημόω, -@: fut. κημώσω ; (κημός a muzzle); 10 stop the mouth by a muzzle, to muzzle: βοῦν, 1 Co. ix. 9 T Tr WHnrg. (Xen. τ. eq. 5, 3); see φιμόω.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κημόω kēmoō 1x
to muzzle, 1 Cor. 9:9*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
φιμόω, -ῶ
(< φιμός, a muzzle), [in LXX: De 25:4 (חסם), Da LXX Su 1:61, IV Mac 1:35 א R * ;]
to muzzle: I Co 9:9, I Ti 5:18 (LXX); metaph., to put to silence: c. acc. pers., Mt 22:34, I Pe 2:15; pass., to be silenced, silent: Mt 22:12, Mk 1:25 4:39, Lk 4:35.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φιμόω, after appearing in Aristoph. (Δῆμ. 592), does not appear again until the LXX and NT, perhaps because it was regarded as a non-literary or even slang word. It is found in the sense of ‘‘muzzle’”’ in a quotation from the LXX in t Cor 95, 1 Tim 515, and metaphorically = ‘* put to silence” in Mt 2284 αἱ. (ch. Lucian De 47ογέ. Per. 15). According to Rohde Psyche II. p. 424 (Engl. Tr. p. 604) φιμοῦν and φιμωτικόν are used in rude Egypto-Syrian Greek as equivalent to καταδεῖν, κατάδεσμος in denoting the binding of a person by means of a spell, so as to make him powerless to harm. Exx, of this magical usage are—P Lond 12198? (i11/A.D.) (= I. p. 114) δεῦρό por. . . καὶ φίμωσον, ὑπόταξον. καταδούλωσον τὸν δεῖνα, an appeal to a god, 26.585 φιμωτικὸν kal ὑποτακτικὸν γενναῖον καὶ κάτοχος, 70. 1234 (iv/v A.D.) (=I. p. 120) καθυπόταξον φίμωσον καταSothwoov πᾶν γένος ἀνθρώπων, and P Osl I. 1184 (iv/a.p.) φιμώσαται τὰ στόματα τὰ κατ᾽ ἐμοῦ. These instances, as Eitrem has pointed out, make ‘‘an effective background” for the usage in Mk 1%, 439, The subst. φίμωσις occurs in Vett. Val. p. 257% πρὶν φθάσαι τὴν φίμωσιν, apparently with reference to the silence of death.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φιμόω (phimoō) — to muzzle. φῑμ-όω, muzzle, οὐ φιμώσεις βοῦν ἀλοῶντα [LXX]; shut up as with a muzzle, φ. τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν αὐχένα to make fast his neck in the pillory, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; close, seal up, στόμα [ἄγγους] [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: metaphorically, muzzle, put to silence, τινα [NT]:— passive, to be put to silence, be silent, φιμώθητι, πεφίμωσο, [NT+2nd c.AD+]; τινι by or because of a thing, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; φιμοῦσθαι πρός τι to be mute in a matter,[Refs 2nd c.AD+]