ἀνήρ
man
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
30 distinct verses where G435 appears in the Vocative case, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 29 verses
- Acts 1:11 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."
- Acts 1:16 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
- Acts 2:14 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
- Acts 2:22 Ἄνδρες ἄνδρα n voc pl masc n acc sg masc "Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,
- Acts 2:29 Ἄνδρες n voc pl masc "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- Acts 2:37 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
- Acts 3:12 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
- Acts 5:35 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
- Acts 7:2 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Acts 7:26 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'
- Acts 13:15 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
- Acts 13:16 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
- Acts 13:26 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
- Acts 13:38 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
- Acts 14:15 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
- Acts 15:7 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe.
- Acts 15:13 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me.
- Acts 17:22 Ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
- Acts 19:25 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
- Acts 19:35 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
- Acts 21:28 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"
- Acts 22:1 Ἄνδρες n voc pl masc "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
- Acts 23:1 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."
- Acts 23:6 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
- Acts 25:24 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
- Acts 27:10 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."
- Acts 27:21 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.
- Acts 27:25 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
- Acts 28:17 ἄνδρες n voc pl masc It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
1 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
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
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.
- #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
- Acts 98 verses 51%
- Luke 26 verses 13%
- 1 Corinthians 20 verses 10%
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- of a male
- of a husband
- of a betrothed or future husband
- with reference to age, and to distinguish an adult man from a boy
- any male
- used generically of a group of both men and women
Word origin
Derived from ανθρωπος (ánthrōpos) (G444) — human being.
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
- ανθρωπαρεσκος anthrōpáreskos G441 man-pleasing
- ανθρωπινος anthrṓpinos G442 human
- ανθρωποκτονος anthrōpoktónos G443 murderer
Derived from this word
- ανδραποδιστης andrapodistḗs G405 man-stealer
- ανδριζομαι andrízomai G407 to show oneself brave
- ανδροφονος androphónos G409 murderer
- ανθρωπος ánthrōpos G444 human being
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 2:23 ἀνήρ
- Exodus 2:13 ἀνήρ
- Leviticus 13:29 ἀνήρ
- Numbers 1:5 ἀνήρ
- Deuteronomy 1:13 ἀνήρ
- Joshua 2:2 ἀνήρ
- Judges 1:4 ἀνήρ
- Ruth 1:1 ἀνήρ
- 1 Samuel 1:8 ἀνήρ
- 2 Samuel 1:2 ἀνήρ
- 1 Kings 1:5 ἀνήρ
- 2 Kings 1:6 ἀνήρ
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.
- Genesis 2:23 ἀνήρ The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
- Genesis 3:6 ἀνήρ When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:16 ἀνήρ To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 4:23 ἀνήρ Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 12:20 ἀνήρ Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
- Genesis 14:21 ἀνήρ The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
- Genesis 14:24 ἀνήρ Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."
- Genesis 16:3 ἀνήρ Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
- Genesis 17:23 ἀνήρ Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
- Genesis 17:27 ἀνήρ All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
- Genesis 18:2 ἀνήρ He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
- Genesis 18:16 ἀνήρ The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
- Genesis 18:22 ἀνήρ The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
- Genesis 19:4 ἀνήρ But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Genesis 19:5 ἀνήρ They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."
- Genesis 19:8 ἀνήρ See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
- Genesis 19:9 ἀνήρ They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:10 ἀνήρ But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 19:11 ἀνήρ They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
- Genesis 19:12 ἀνήρ The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
- Genesis 20:2 ἀνήρ Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Genesis 20:3 ἀνήρ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
- Genesis 24:16 ἀνήρ The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
- Genesis 24:32 ἀνήρ The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
- Genesis 24:54 ἀνήρ They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."
- Genesis 26:7 ἀνήρ The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful to look on.
- Genesis 27:11 ἀνήρ Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
- Genesis 29:19 ἀνήρ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
- Genesis 29:22 ἀνήρ Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Genesis 29:32 ἀνήρ Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
- Genesis 29:34 ἀνήρ She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 30:15 ἀνήρ She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
- Genesis 30:18 ἀνήρ Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
- Genesis 30:20 ἀνήρ Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 32:7 ἀνήρ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
- Genesis 33:1 ἀνήρ Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Genesis 34:7 ἀνήρ The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
- Genesis 34:20 ἀνήρ Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 38:21 ἀνήρ Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
- Genesis 39:1 ἀνήρ Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
- Genesis 39:2 ἀνήρ Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
- Genesis 43:15 ἀνήρ The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
- Genesis 46:32 ἀνήρ These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
- Genesis 46:34 ἀνήρ that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
- Genesis 47:2 ἀνήρ From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 47:5 ἀνήρ Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
- Genesis 49:15 ἀνήρ He saw a resting-place, that it was good, The land, that it was pleasant; He bows his shoulder to the burden, And becomes a servant doing forced labor.
- Exodus 2:13 ἀνήρ He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
- Exodus 10:11 ἀνήρ Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
- Exodus 12:37 ἀνήρ The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
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.