ἄνθρωπος
human being
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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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G444 appears in the Book of John — 54 distinct verses. 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.
John
- John 1:4 ἀνθρώπων n gen pl masc In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
- John 1:6 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
- John 1:9 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
- John 1:52 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc
- John 2:10 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
- John 2:25 ἀνθρώπου ἀνθρώπῳ n gen sg masc n dat sg masc and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
- John 3:1 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
- John 3:4 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
- John 3:13 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
- John 3:14 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
- John 3:19 ἄνθρωποι n nom pl masc This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
- John 3:27 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
- John 4:28 ἀνθρώποις n dat pl masc So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
- John 4:29 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"
- John 4:50 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
- John 5:5 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
- John 5:7 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
- John 5:9 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
- John 5:12 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"
- John 5:15 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
- John 5:27 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
- John 5:34 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
- John 5:41 ἀνθρώπων n gen pl masc I don't receive glory from men.
- John 6:10 ἀνθρώπους n acc pl masc Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
- John 6:14 ἄνθρωποι n nom pl masc When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."
- John 6:27 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
- John 6:53 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
- John 6:62 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
- John 7:22 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
- John 7:23 ἄνθρωπος ἄνθρωπον n nom sg masc n acc sg masc If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?
- John 7:46 ἄνθρωπος ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc n nom sg masc The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
- John 7:51 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
- John 8:17 ἀνθρώπων n gen pl masc It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
- John 8:28 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
- John 8:40 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
- John 9:1 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
- John 9:11 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
- John 9:16 ἄνθρωπος ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc n nom sg masc Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
- John 9:24 ἄνθρωπον ἄνθρωπος n acc sg masc n nom sg masc So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
- John 9:30 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
- John 9:35 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
- John 10:33 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
- John 11:47 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
- John 11:50 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
- John 12:23 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
- John 12:34 ἀνθρώπου ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
- John 12:43 ἀνθρώπων n gen pl masc for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
- John 13:31 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
- John 16:21 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
- John 17:6 ἀνθρώποις n dat pl masc I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
- John 18:14 ἄνθρωπον n acc sg masc Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
- John 18:17 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."
- John 18:29 ἀνθρώπου n gen sg masc Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"
- John 19:5 ἄνθρωπος n nom sg masc Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- a human being, whether male or female
- indefinitely, someone, a man, one
- in the plural, people
- joined with other words, merchantman
Word origin
Derived from ανηρ (anḗr) (G435) — man.
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.
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
- ανδραποδιστης andrapodistḗs G405 man-stealer
- ανδριζομαι andrízomai G407 to show oneself brave
- ανδροφονος androphónos G409 murderer
Derived from this word
- ανηρ anḗr G435 man
- ανθρωπαρεσκος anthrōpáreskos G441 man-pleasing
- ανθρωπινος anthrṓpinos G442 human
- ανθρωποκτονος anthrōpoktónos G443 murderer
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 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
- Genesis 1:26 ἄνθρωπος
- Exodus 2:11 ἄνθρωπος
- Leviticus 1:2 ἄνθρωπος
- Numbers 2:2 ἄνθρωπος
- Deuteronomy 1:17 ἄνθρωπος
- Joshua 1:5 ἄνθρωπος
- Judges 9:13 ἄνθρωπος
- 1 Samuel 1:1 ἄνθρωπος
- 2 Samuel 7:14 ἄνθρωπος
- 1 Kings 2:32 ἄνθρωπος
- 2 Kings 1:9 ἄνθρωπος
- 1 Chronicles 17:17 ἄνθρωπος
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.
- Genesis 1:26 ἄνθρωπος God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:27 ἄνθρωπος God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 2:5 ἄνθρωπος No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 2:7 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 2:8 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:15 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Genesis 2:18 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:24 ἄνθρωπος Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Genesis 4:1 ἄνθρωπος The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."
- Genesis 5:1 ἄνθρωπος This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
- Genesis 6:1 ἄνθρωπος It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
- Genesis 6:2 ἄνθρωπος that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:3 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 6:4 ἄνθρωπος The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:5 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:6 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Genesis 6:7 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Genesis 6:9 ἄνθρωπος This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 6:13 ἄνθρωπος God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 7:21 ἄνθρωπος All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
- Genesis 7:23 ἄνθρωπος Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 8:21 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 9:5 ἄνθρωπος I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
- Genesis 9:6 ἄνθρωπος Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 9:20 ἄνθρωπος Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
- Genesis 11:3 ἄνθρωπος They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
- Genesis 11:5 ἄνθρωπος Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 13:8 ἄνθρωπος Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
- Genesis 13:13 ἄνθρωπος Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- Genesis 16:12 ἄνθρωπος He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
- Genesis 20:7 ἄνθρωπος Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
- Genesis 20:8 ἄνθρωπος Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
- Genesis 24:21 ἄνθρωπος The man looked steadfastly at her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
- Genesis 24:22 ἄνθρωπος It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
- Genesis 24:26 ἄνθρωπος The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.
- Genesis 24:29 ἄνθρωπος Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
- Genesis 24:30 ἄνθρωπος It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 24:32 ἄνθρωπος 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 24:43 ἄνθρωπος Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.
- Genesis 24:58 ἄνθρωπος They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."
- Genesis 24:61 ἄνθρωπος Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
- Genesis 24:65 ἄνθρωπος She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.
- Genesis 25:27 ἄνθρωπος The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
- Genesis 26:11 ἄνθρωπος Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Genesis 26:13 ἄνθρωπος The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
- Genesis 26:31 ἄνθρωπος They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- Genesis 30:43 ἄνθρωπος The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Genesis 32:25 ἄνθρωπος When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
- Genesis 32:29 ἄνθρωπος Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
- Genesis 34:14 ἄνθρωπος and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
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.