ΦΟΝΟΣ, φονος
PHONOS, phonos
Sounds Like: PHO-nos
Translations: murder, a murder, slaughter, bloodshed
From the root: ΦΟΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of murder or slaughter, often implying violence and bloodshed. It is used to describe the killing of a human being, and can also refer to the resulting carnage or bloodshed. It is typically used as a singular noun in sentences.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5408 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 20:1
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:9
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 10:248
- Book 4 — 5:92, 8:220
- Book 5 — 1:66, 6:226, 8:247
- Book 6 — 14:369
- Book 8 — 11:284
- Book 13 — 12:341
- Book 15 — 5:152
- Book 18 — 1:8, 9:310, 9:366
- Book 19 — 4:252
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 2:4, 14:5, 18:15, 19:5, 20:20
- Book Two — 14:36, 17:42, 18:4
- Book Three — 10:38
- Book Four — 3:80, 9:75
- Book Six — 1:76, 4:6, 4:40, 5:1
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 13:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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
- ΦΟΝΟΝ — murder, a murder, slaughter, a slaughter
- 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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