φονευτής
murderer, slayer
Where this word appears
Every passage where φονευτής appears in the Greek Septuagint — 17 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 35:11 φονευτής And you⌃ shall appoint to yourselves cities: they shall be to you cities of refuge for the slayer to flee to, every one who has killed another unintentionally.
- Numbers 35:16 φονευτής And if he should strike him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
- Numbers 35:16 φονευτής And if he should strike him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17 φονευτής And if he should strike him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17 φονευτής And if he should strike him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18 φονευτής And if he should strike him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18 φονευτής And if he should strike him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
- Numbers 35:21 φονευτής or if he have struck him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that struck him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall kill the murderer when he meets him.
- Deuteronomy 4:42 φονευτής that the slayer might flee there, who should have slain his neighbor unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
- Deuteronomy 19:3 φονευτής Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.
- Deuteronomy 19:4 φονευτής And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee there, and shall live, whoever shall have struck his neighbor ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.
- Joshua 20:3 φονευτής Even a refuge to the slayer who has struck a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.
- Joshua 20:3 φονευτής Even a refuge to the slayer who has struck a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.
- 2 Kings 6:32 φονευτής And Elisaie was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do you⌃ see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
- 2 Kings 9:31 φονευτής And Ju entered into the city; and she said, Had Zambri, the murderer of his master, peace?
- Proverbs 22:13 φονευτής The sluggard makes excuses, and says, There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
- Isaiah 1:21 φονευτής How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
About this word
About this word
φονευτής (phoneutḗs), “murderer, slayer,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 17 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →