φόνος
murder
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G5408 appears in the Genitive case, across 3 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 1 verse
Romans 1 verse
Revelation 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 φονος centers on the idea of “murder.” First canonically at Matthew 15:19, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. Related forms include φονευς. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5408 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 56%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 33%
- Johannine 1 verse · 11%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 11%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 11%
- Revelation 1 verse · 11%
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: Murder 4×, Murders 4×
- American Standard Version: Murder 4×, Murders 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Murder 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Murder 5×, Murders 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5408 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5408 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5408 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5408 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- murder, slaughter
Word origin
Origin: from an obsolete primary pheno (to murder)
From an obsolete primary φένω phenō (to slay ); murder : - murder + be slain with slaughter.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5408 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φόνον phónon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 15:7 | 3 |
| φόνοι phónoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 15:19 | 2 |
| φόνου phónou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 9:1 | 2 |
| φόνων phónōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 9:21 | 1 |
| φόνῳ phónō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 11:37 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5408, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φονος appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 9 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 5:3 φόνος
- Leviticus 26:7 φόνος
- Numbers 21:24 φόνος
- Deuteronomy 13:16 φόνος
- Job 21:22 φόνος
- Proverbs 1:18 φόνος
- Jeremiah 22:17 φόνος
- Ezekiel 43:7 φόνος
- Hosea 4:2 φόνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5408) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 5:3 φόνος They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 17:13 φόνος Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
- Exodus 22:1 φόνος "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- Leviticus 26:7 φόνος You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
- Numbers 21:24 φόνος Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
- Deuteronomy 13:16 φόνος You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
- Deuteronomy 20:13 φόνος and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
- Deuteronomy 22:8 φόνος When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 φόνος Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
- Job 21:22 φόνος "Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?
- Proverbs 1:18 φόνος But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
- Proverbs 28:17 φόνος A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.
- Jeremiah 22:17 φόνος But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Ezekiel 43:7 φόνος He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
- Ezekiel 43:8 φόνος in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
- Ezekiel 43:9 φόνος Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
- Hosea 4:2 φόνος There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5408) 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.
