noun · masculine
fonevos
Strong’sG5406
a murderer
stem fonev-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books5 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.
* φονεύς, -έως, ὁ
(φόνος) [in LXX: Wi 12:5 *;]
SYN.: ἀνθρωποκτόνος
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5406 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfon-yooce'
a murderer (always of criminal (or at least intentional) homicide; which G443 does not necessarily imply; while G4607 is a special term for a public bandit)
Fromfrom G5408;
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
genitive έως, Epic dialect ῆος Refs 8th c.BC+; accusative φονέα (in first foot of trimeter) Refs 5th c.BC+: nominative plural φονέες Refs 2nd c.AD+, Attic dialect φονῆς Refs 5th c.BC+; but contraction φονεῖς Refs 1st c.AD+:—slayer, Refs 8th c.BC+; φονέας αὑτῶν self-murderers, Refs 5th c.BC+ [same place]; τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον φονεύς ἐστιν is so much more justly accounted a murderer, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the sword on which Ajax had thrown himself, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 σοῦ φονέως μεμνημένος you, my destroyer, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, τῆς ὑμετέρας εὐσεβείας φονῆς 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 | fonevos2×φονεύς | fonevois2×φονεῖς |
| object accusative | fonevon1×φονέα | fonevoin1×φονεῖς |
| direct address vocative | fonevor | fonevoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | fonevou | fonevoiu |
| to, for dative | fonevo | fonevoi1×φονεῦσι |
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
fonevo 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
fonevos“murderer”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 28:4… cheirau autou, pros allēloin legale; Pantōs fonevos atō tos anthrōpos houtos hon diasōziranton …… another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the …
1 Peter 4:15mē gar tinos vu paschatōr hōs fonevos ē kleptos ē kakopoios ē hōs …… of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even …
fonevon“murderer”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 3:14… kai dikaion arneva kai aiteva andron fonevon charizira vi,… Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
fonevois“murderers”subjectnominative plural2×
Acts 7:52… dikaiou hou nun vis prodotois kai fonevois geneva,… now you are His betrayers and murderers —
Revelation 22:15… farmakois kai tois pornois kai tois fonevois kai tois eidōlolatrois kai pantos filarōntos …… the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves …
fonevoin“murderers”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 22:7… pemparantos teim strateumeim autou apolata toin fonevoin ekeinoin kai tan polan autoiu empimprēata.… sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
fonevoi“murderers”to, fordative plural1×
Revelation 21:8… deiloi kai apistoi kai bdelussorēntoi kai fonevoi kai pornoi kai farmakoi kai eidōlolatroi …… cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and …