noun · masculine
androfonos
Strong’sG409
a murderer
stem androfon-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.
** ἀνδρο-φόνος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: II Mac 9:28*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G409 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
man-slaying, Homeric epithet of Hector, Refs 8th c.BC+; of Achilles, χεῖρες ἀ.Refs; homicide, Refs 5th c.BC+; generally, murderous, ἀ. τὴν φύσινRefs 4th c.BC+:—rarely except of slaughter in battle, but in Refs 8th c.BC+ a murderous drug:—epithet of αῖμα, Refs 5th c.AD+
2 of women, murdering their husbands, Refs 5th c.BC+
II as law-term, one convicted of manslaughter, homicide, Refs 5th c.BC+
III ἀ. Κῶνος, a landmark at Athens, Refs
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 | androfonos | androfonois |
| object accusative | androfonon | androfonoin |
| direct address vocative | androfonor | androfonoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | androfonou | androfonoiu |
| to, for dative | androfono | androfonoi1×ἀνδροφόνοις |
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
androfono 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
androfonoi“murderers”to, fordative plural1×
1 Timothy 1:9… anosioi kai bebēloi, patrolōoi kai mētrolōoi, androfonoi,… killers of father or mother, for murderers,