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ἀνήρ

man

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G435 Strong's Greek
anḗr Transliteration
/an'-ayr/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 216 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek noun ανηρ centers on the idea of “man.” The word gravitates to Acts (51%), then Luke and 1 Corinthians. It appears 194 verses across 16 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:16. Lexicons map it across 6 senses. Dig into 194-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
fellow
Modern gloss
man
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G435 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

194
distinct verses
The word appears in 194 distinct verses.
16 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:16
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:16.
Revelation 21:2
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:2.
#75
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 75 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 194 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 44 · 23%
  • Acts 98 · 51%
  • Pauline Epistles 42 · 22%
  • General Epistles 9 · 5%
  • Revelation 1 · 1%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 194 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 124 verses · 64%
  • Gospels 44 verses · 23%
  • Pauline corpus 42 verses · 22%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 9 verses · 5%
  • Johannine 7 verses · 4%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 1%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Men 72×, Man 66×, Husband 38×
  • American Standard Version: Man 68×, Men 56×, Husband 37×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Man 64×, Men 64×, Husband 37×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Men 85×, Man 75×, Husband 42×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G435 across 211 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Men” 72×
  • “Man” 66×
  • “Husband” 38×
  • “Husbands” 11×
  • “Ye men” 8×
  • “Is the man” 5×
  • “Sirs” 5×
  • “Was a man” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G435 across 208 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 68×
  • “Men” 56×
  • “Husband” 37×
  • “Husbands” 11×
  • “Sirs” 6×
  • “Ye men” 5×
  • “A” 4×
  • “Is the man” 4×
  • “To” 3×

Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 11 further occurrences.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G435 across 183 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 64×
  • “Men” 64×
  • “Husband” 37×
  • “Husbands” 12×
  • “Man’s” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 14 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G435 across 257 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Men” 85×
  • “Man” 75×
  • “Husband” 42×
  • “A” 20×
  • “Husbands” 13×
  • “To” 8×
  • “An” 3×
  • “Of” 3×
  • “Their” 2×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 6 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. of a male
  2. of a husband
  3. of a betrothed or future husband
  4. with reference to age, and to distinguish an adult man from a boy
  5. any male
  6. used generically of a group of both men and women

Word origin

Derived from ανθρωπος (ánthrōpos) (G444) — human being.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 07:00,6

A primary word (compare G444 ); a man (properly as an individual male): - fellow husband man sir.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 14 distinct written forms G435 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἄνδρες ándres Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 12:41 59
ἀνὴρ anḕr Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:19 36
ἄνδρα ándra Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:16 31
ἄνδρας ándras Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Luke 9:32 21
ἀνδρὶ andrì Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 7:24 17
ἀνήρ anḗr Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 8:27 12
ἀνδρὸς andròs Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Luke 2:36 10
ἀνδράσιν andrásin Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Acts 25:23 7
ἀνδρῶν andrō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Luke 11:31 7
ἀνδρός andrós Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 11:12 6
Ἄνδρες Ándres Noun, Vocative, Plural, Masculine Acts 2:22 4
Ἀνὴρ Anḕr Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 5:1 3
ἀνδρί andrí Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 Corinthians 7:3 2
ἄνερ áner Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine 1 Corinthians 7:16 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G435, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

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Proper names from this root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ανηρ appears 1,368 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,187 verses in 36 books.

1,368
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
1,187
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
36 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G435) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,187. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G435) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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