ΦΟΝΕΩΝ, φονεων
PHONEŌN, phoneōn
Sounds Like: fo-NEH-ohn
Translations: of murderers, of manslayers
From the root: ΦΟΝΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to those who commit murder or manslaughter. It is used in a general sense to denote individuals responsible for taking a human life, often with a negative connotation. It is a compound word, derived from the verb 'φονεύω' (to murder) and the suffix '-εύς' (indicating an agent).
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5406 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 30:15
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
- ΦΟΝΕΥΣ — murderer, slayer, a murderer, a slayer
- ΦΟΝΕΥΣΑΣΙ — to murderers, for murderers
- ΦΟΝΕΥΣΙΝ — (to) murderers, (to) manslayers
- ΦΟΝΕΥΤΑΙ — murderers, the murderers
- ΦΟΝΕΩΣ — of a murderer, of murderer
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