2001 Translation

PHONON, phonon

Sounds Like: FOH-non

Translations: murder, a murder, slaughter, a slaughter

From the root: ΦΟΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the act of murder or slaughter. It is used to describe the violent killing of a person or people. In a sentence, it would typically function as the object of a verb, indicating what was done.

Inflection: Singular, Masculine, Accusative

Strong’s number: G5408 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 12:6

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judith — 2:11, 8:22
• Jeremiah — 22:17
• Mark — 15:7
• Luke — 23:19, 23:25

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 27:205
• Book Two — 27:205

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:67
• Book 2 — 3:22, 9:236
• Book 4 — 7:172
• Book 5 — 1:62, 2:158, 8:269
• Book 6 — 12:259, 13:271, 14:362
• Book 9 — 4:70
• Book 11 — 7:301
• Book 13 — 1:29
• Book 15 — 3:63, 5:117
• Book 16 — 3:73
• Book 17 — 3:57, 10:285
• Book 18 — 2:49, 8:269
• Book 19 — 1:161
• Book 20 — 6:119, 6:127, 8:163

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 27:9
• Book Two — 2:21, 12:18, 17:52
• Book Three — 2:9
• Book Four — 6:8

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 22:8
• Judith — 2:11, 8:22, 9:3
• 3 Maccabees — 3:25
• Jeremiah — 22:17
• Enoch — 12:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 15:7
• Luke — 23:19, 23:25

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 3:2

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΟΝΟΣ.

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.

• ΦΟΝ — murder, slaughter, a murder, a slaughter
• ΦΟΝΙΚΑ — murderous, deadly, homicidal, murderous things, deadly things, cases of murder
• ΦΟΝΙΚΟΣ — murderous, deadly, bloodthirsty
• ΦΟΝΟ — murder, slaughter, bloodshed, a murder, a slaughter
• ΦΟΝΟΙ — murders, slaughters, killings
• ΦΟΝΟΙΣ — (to) murders, (to) slaughters, (to) killings
• ΦΟΝΟΙΣΙΝ — (to) murders, (to) slaughters, (to) bloodsheds
• ΦΟΝΟΣ — murder, a murder, slaughter, bloodshed
• ΦΟΝΟΥ — of murder, of slaughter, of killing, murder, slaughter, killing
• ΦΟΝΟΥΣ — murders, slaughters, killings
• ΦΟΝΩ — (to) murder, (to) slaughter, (to) killing, (to) bloodshed, (to) death, a murder, a slaughter, a killing, a bloodshed, a death
• ΦΟΝΩΔΗΣ — murderous, bloodthirsty, deadly
• ΦΟΝΩΝ — of murder, of murders, of slaughter, of slaughters
• ΦΟΝΩΣΗΣ — of murder, of slaughter, of bloodshed

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