ΦΟΝΕΙΣ, φονεις
PHONEIS, phoneis
Sounds Like: foh-NEYS
Translations: murderers, killers
From the root: ΦΟΝΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to individuals who commit murder or act as killers. It is used to describe those who take the life of another, often with malicious intent. It can be used in a general sense to refer to any person who commits such an act.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5406 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Revelation — 22:15
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 18:9
Justin Martyr
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 5:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΟΝΕΥΣ.
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.
- ΦΟΝΕΑ — murderer, a murderer, of murderers, manslayer, a manslayer, of manslayers
- ΦΟΝΕΥΣ — murderer, slayer, a murderer, a slayer
- ΦΟΝΕΥΣΑΣΙ — to murderers, for murderers
- ΦΟΝΕΥΣΙΝ — (to) murderers, (to) manslayers
- ΦΟΝΕΥΤΑΙ — murderers, the murderers
- ΦΟΝΕΩΝ — of murderers, of manslayers
- ΦΟΝΕΩΣ — of a murderer, of murderer
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