φονεύς
murderer
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.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (29%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (29%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (14%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (14%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5406 appears — 7 distinct verses across 4 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 3:14 φονέα n acc sg masc But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
- Acts 7:52 φονεῖς n nom pl masc Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
- Acts 28:4 φονεύς n nom sg masc When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."
1 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 21:8 φονεῦσιν n dat pl masc But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
- Revelation 22:15 φονεῖς n nom pl masc Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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.
At its core, φονευς (phoneús) means “murderer.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 22:7. Spanning 7 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (43% of all occurrences). From the same root come φονος and φονευω. 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 G5406 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 3 verses 43%
- Revelation 2 verses 29%
- Matthew 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 43%
- Johannine 2 verses · 29%
- Revelation 2 verses · 29%
- Gospels 1 verse · 14%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 14%
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: Murderers 4×, Murderer 3×
- American Standard Version: Murderers 4×, Murderer 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Murderers 4×, Murderer 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Murderers 4×, Murderer 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5406 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5406 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5406 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5406 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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 murderer, a homicide
Word origin
Derived from φονος (phónos) (G5408) — murder.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5406 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φονεῖς phoneîs | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 7:52 | 3 |
| φονέα phonéa | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 3:14 | 1 |
| φονεύς phoneús | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 28:4 | 1 |
| φονεὺς phoneùs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 4:15 | 1 |
| φονεῦσιν phoneûsin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 21:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5406, 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
Derived from this word
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