Greek noun (masculine) · G5406
φονεύς
phoneusfon-yooce'
murderer
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: phoneús
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5406is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5406
a murderer (always of criminal homicide
The King James renders it: murderer.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
phoneus is rendered "murderer". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
Matthew 22:7φονεῖς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a murderer3
- murderers3
- to murderers1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φονεύω | phoneuo | to murder | Uses12 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- φονεῖς3
- φονέα1
- φονεύς1
- φονεὺς1
- φονεῦσιν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2N-NPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
Matthew
one use
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- φονεῖςphoneisnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: murderers
Acts
three uses
You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
- φονέαphoneanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a murderer
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
- φονεῖςphoneisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: murderers
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
- φονεύςphoneusnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a murderer
1 Peter
one use
Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.
- φονεὺςphoneusnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a murderer
Revelation
two uses
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- φονεῦσινphoneusinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: to murderers
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- φονεῖςphoneisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: murderers
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.