noun · masculine
anthrōpoktonos
Strong’sG443
a murderer
stem anthrōpokton-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
* ἀνθρωποκτόνος, -ον
(< κτείνω, to kill),
SYN.: φονεύς, ἀνδροφόνος (v. Tr., Syn, § lxxxiii).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G443 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidanth-ro-pok-ton'-os
a manslayer
Fromfrom G444 and κτείνω(to kill);
King Jamesmurderer.
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
murdering men, homicide, NT+5th c.BC+
II proparoxytone, ἀνθρωπόκτονος βορά feeding on slaughtered men, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | anthrōpoktonos3×ἀνθρωποκτόνος | anthrōpoktonois |
| object accusative | anthrōpoktonon | anthrōpoktonoin |
| direct address vocative | anthrōpoktonor | anthrōpoktonoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | anthrōpoktonou | anthrōpoktonoiu |
| to, for dative | anthrōpoktono | anthrōpoktonoi |
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
anthrōpoktono 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
anthrōpoktonos“murderer”subjectnominative singular3×
John 8:44… tou patrou vu thelavō poiarō. ekeinos anthrōpoktonos ate apo archau, kai en ta …… out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold …
1 John 3:15pantos tos misarōntos ton adelfon autou anthrōpoktonos atō, kai oidavē hoti pantos anthrōpoktonos …… who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life …
1 John 3:15… anthrōpoktonos atō, kai oidavē hoti pantos anthrōpoktonos ouk echatō zōan aiōnian en auto …… life does not reside in a murderer.