noun · feminine
anairesias
Strong’sG336
killing, slaying, murder
stem anairesi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀν-αίρεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀναιρέω), [in LXX: Nu 11:15 (הָרַג), Jg 15:17 (רָמָה), Jth 15:4, II Mac 5:13*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G336 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidan-ah'-ee-res-is
(the act of) killing
Fromfrom G337;
King Jamesdeath.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
taking up or away, especially of dead bodies for burial, ὀστέωνRefs 5th c.BC+; in a sea-fight, νεκρῶν ἢ ναυαγίων ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+
2 taking up, ἀ. καὶ θέσις ὅπλωνRefs 5th c.BC+
3 undertaking, ἔργωνRefs 5th c.BC+
II destruction, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 slaying, putting to death, LXX+1st c.AD+; banishment, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 repeal, δογμάτωνRefs 1st c.AD+; quashing of indictment, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 direct confutation of arguments, opposed to διαίρεσις (confutation by drawing a distinction), Refs 4th c.BC+; destruction (by argument), τινόςRefs 1st c.BC+
II.5 Astrology texts, ={ἀκτινοβολία}, Thrasyll. cited in Refs 3rd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | anairesias | anairesiais |
| object accusative | anairesian | anairesiain |
| direct address vocative | anairesiar | anairesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | anairesiau | anairesiaiu |
| to, for dative | anairesia1×ἀναιρέσει | anairesiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
anairesia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
anairesia“death”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 8:1Saulos de ate suneudokarōntos ta anairesia autou. Geneta de en ekeina ta …… was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution …