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ἄνθρωπος

human being

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G444 Strong's Greek
ánthrōpos Transliteration
/anth'-ro-pos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 550 appearances

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About this entry

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ανθρωπος — transliterated ánthrōpos — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “human being.” Thayer's distinguishes 4 senses for it. The Greek New Testament uses it across 496 verses — common. Debuting at Matthew 4:4, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with ανηρ, ανδραποδιστης and ανδριζομαι. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
certain
Modern gloss
human being
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 G444 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 →

496
distinct verses
The word appears in 496 distinct verses.
24 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 24 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:4
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:4.
Revelation 21:17
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:17.
#35
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 35 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 496 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 291 · 59%
  • Acts 45 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 111 · 22%
  • General Epistles 25 · 5%
  • Revelation 24 · 5%

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 496 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 291 verses · 59%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 131 verses · 26%
  • Pauline corpus 111 verses · 22%
  • Johannine 79 verses · 16%
  • Revelation 24 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 17 verses · 3%
  • Hebrews 8 verses · 2%

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: Man 335×, Men 185×, Man's 10×
  • American Standard Version: Man 337×, Men 182×, Certain 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Man 284×, Men 124×, People 12×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Man 341×, Men 200×, A 21×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G444 across 556 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 335×
  • “Men” 185×
  • “Man's” 10×
  • “Men's” 5×
  • “Certain” 3×
  • “Certain man” 3×
  • “Is a man” 2×
  • “Shall a man” 2×

Plus 11 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 3 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G444 across 561 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 337×
  • “Men” 182×
  • “Certain” 3×
  • “People” 3×
  • “The” 3×
  • “To” 3×
  • “Among men” 2×
  • “State of” 2×
  • “Than men” 2×
  • “Unto” 2×

Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G444 across 479 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 284×
  • “Men” 124×
  • “People” 12×
  • “Human” 8×
  • “Man’s” 6×
  • “Self” 5×
  • “Mankind” 3×
  • “Men’s” 3×
  • “Anyone” 2×
  • “Being” 2×
  • “Boy” 2×
  • “Can a man” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 20 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 66 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G444 across 592 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 341×
  • “Men” 200×
  • “A” 21×
  • “Of” 12×
  • “To” 6×
  • “People” 3×
  • “Person” 2×
  • “The” 2×

Plus 5 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 4 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. a human being, whether male or female
  2. indefinitely, someone, a man, one
  3. in the plural, people
  4. joined with other words, merchantman

Word origin

Derived from ανηρ (anḗr) (G435) — man.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 07:04,6

From G435 and ὤψ ō ps (the countenance ; from G3700 ); manfaced that is a human being : - certain man.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 14 distinct written forms G444 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀνθρώπου anthrṓpou Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 8:20 129
ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 4:4 113
ἀνθρώπων anthrṓpōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 4:19 99
ἄνθρωπον ánthrōpon Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:9 61
ἀνθρώποις anthrṓpois Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 6:5 44
ἀνθρώπους anthrṓpous Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:19 31
ἀνθρώπῳ anthrṓpō Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 12:13 25
ἄνθρωποι ánthrōpoi Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 7:12 25
ἄνθρωπός ánthrōpós Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 8:9 10
ἄνθρωπε ánthrōpe Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine Luke 5:20 9
ἄνθρωποί ánthrōpoí Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 Corinthians 3:4 1
ἄνθρωπόν ánthrōpón Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 9:33 1
Ἄνθρωποι Ánthrōpoi Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 18:10 1
Ἄνθρωπος Ánthrōpos Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 16:19 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G444, 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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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 ανθρωπος appears 1,098 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 983 verses in 36 books.

1,098
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
983
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 (G444) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 983. 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 (G444) 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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