ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΟΣ, μιαιφονος
MIAIPHONOS, miaiphonos
Sounds Like: mee-ahee-FOH-nos
Translations: bloodthirsty, murderous, a murderer, blood-guilty
From the root: ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This adjective describes someone who is bloodthirsty or murderous. It can also be used as a noun to refer to a murderer. It is a compound word formed from 'μιαίνω' (to stain, defile) and 'φονεύω' (to murder), literally meaning 'blood-staining' or 'defiled by blood', hence 'murderous'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G3390 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΕ — blood-stained, murderous, bloody-handed, O blood-stained one, O murderer
- ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΟΝ — bloodthirsty, murderous, a bloodthirsty one, a murderous one
- ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΟΥΣ — murderous, bloodthirsty, murderer, a murderer, murderers
- ΜΙΑΙΦΟΝΩΝ — of murderers, of bloody men, of blood-stained, of blood-guilty
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