ΦΟΝΕΥΣ, φονευς
PHONEUS, phoneus
Sounds Like: foh-NEH-oos
Translations: murderer, slayer, a murderer, a slayer
From the root: ΦΟΝΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a person who commits murder or slays another. It is a masculine noun used to describe someone who takes a life, often with intent. It can be used in a general sense to refer to anyone who kills.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5406 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 2:13
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ΦΟΝΕΙΣ — murderers, killers
- 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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