Strong G5408φόνος
murder
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- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From an obsolete primary φένω phenō (to slay); murder: - murder + be slain with slaughter.
Detailed definition
φόνος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for דָּם, פֶּה, etc.;]
murder, slaughter: Mrk.15:7, Luk.23:19, 25, Act.9:1, Rom.1:29; φ. μαχαίρης (cf. Exo.17:13, al.), Heb.11:37; pl., Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21, Rev.9:21.†
(AS)
[in LXX for דָּם, פֶּה, etc.;]
murder, slaughter: Mrk.15:7, Luk.23:19, 25, Act.9:1, Rom.1:29; φ. μαχαίρης (cf. Exo.17:13, al.), Heb.11:37; pl., Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21, Rev.9:21.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5408 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- murder8
- slaughter1
First verses
- Matthew 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Mark 15:7And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
- Luke 23:19(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
- Luke 23:25And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
- Acts 9:1And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
- Romans 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
- Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
- Revelation 9:21Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
φόνος, ὁ,
(θείνω) murder, slaughter, τεύξασα πόσει φόνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.430; τοίσδεσσι φόνον καὶ κῆρα φυτεύει 2.165; φ. ῥάπτειν 16.379; μερμηρίζειν 2.325; ὁρμαίνειν 4.843; σμικρῇσι φόνον φέρει ὀρνίθεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.757, etc.; φόνον πράσσειν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.46; ἀκούσιον φ. ἐξεργάσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 869a; βουλεῦσαί τινι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1055; ἔθου φόνον [prev. author] “OC” 542 (Lyric poetry); ἐκπορίζειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1114)]; of arrows, φ. προπέμπειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 105)]; τὸν Δωριέος πρὸς Ἐγεσταίων φόνον ἐκπρήξασθαι exact vengeance for the killing.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.158)]; κατὰ ζῴων φόνου καὶ μὴ φόνου ὧδε ἔχει killing or not-killing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 257)]; in poetry phrases, φ. συρίζειν, κινύρεσθαι, πνεῖν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 357 (assuming variant), “Th.” 123 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 1309)]; φ. τινός the murder of.., [Refs ([prev. author] “Eu.” 580, etc.)]; φ. Ἑλληνικὸς μέγιστος slaughter of Greeks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.170; ὅμαιμος αὐθέντης φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 212; πατρῷος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 955)]; πολύκερως, ἄρνειος φ., [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 55, 309; ἐπὶ φόνῳ πράσσεις φόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1579, compare “HF” 1084 (Lyric poetry); γέρων φ. μηκέτ᾽ ἐν δόμοις τέκοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 805 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ὁ ὑπὸ Θήβης Ἀλεξάνδρον φ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.856a; ὁ κατὰ τῶν πολιτῶν φ. 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.8: _plural_, φόνοι τ᾽ ἀνδροκτασίαι τε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.612 (personified in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 228); ἔμφυλοι φ. ἀνδρῶν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 51, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 962.)]
2 in law, murder, homicide, δικάζειν τοὺς βασιλέας αἰτιῶν φόνου Legal Dracontis cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.115.12; φόνου διώκειν τινά 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.9; δικάζειν δίκας φόνου [prev. author] 5.11; παραδοῦναι φόνου δίκην [prev. author] 6.42; ἁλῶναι [prev. author] 5.59, etc.; φεύγειν 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 133 (poetry, παίδων φόνον φεύγουσα)] fleeing from.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 795))]; ἔνοχοι τῷ φόνῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.11; φόνου ὑπόδικος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.25)]; φόνου καθαρός, ἁγνός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 451b, “Lg.” 759c: ἀκούσιος φ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.72; φόνων ἀπέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1032 (_anapaest meter_); αἱ τῶν φ. δίκαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 778d; φόνοι.. φόνοις δεόμενοι καθαίρεσθαι [prev. work] 870c, +others)]; λαγχάνονται αἱ τοῦ φ. δίκαι πρὸς [τὸν βασιλέα] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 57.2.)]
3 death as a punishment, φ. προκεῖσθαι δημόλευστον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 36.)]
4 blood when shed, gore, ἂμ φόνον, ἂν νέκυας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.298; κέατ᾽ ἐν φόνῳ 24.610; ἐρευγόμενοι φόνον αἵματος 16.162; φ. κέχυται γυναίκων 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “fragment” 153 Lobel; φόνον κεύθειν 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 100.4; μέλανι ῥαίνων φόνῳ πεδίον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).55; φόνου κηκίς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 1012; ἐμοῦσα θρόμβους οὓς ἀφείλκυσας φόνου [prev. author] “Eu.” 184; σταγόνες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1278; σταλαγμοί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 241; χεῖρα χραίνεσθαι φόνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 43)]; of a sacrifice, ταυρείου φόνου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 44; Ἕλλην οὗ καταστάζει φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 72)]; rarely in Prose of blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.73.)]
5 corpse, πρὶν ἴδω τὸν Ἑλένας φόνον.. κείμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1357 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ φόνῳ χαμαιπετεῖ ματρός [prev. work] 1491 (Lyric poetry).)]
6 rascal that deserves death, gallowsbird, a Dorian phrase, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 662.4.)]
II of the agent or instrument of slaughter, φόνον ἔμμεναι ἡρώεσσι to be a death to heroes, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.144, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.24)]; of poison, [LXX (“Mim.Oxy.” 413.180; ἐν φόνῳ μαχαίρας LXX.Exo.17.13, LXX.Deu.13.15(16), 20.13)]; without ἐν, [LXX (LXX.Num.21.24.)]
III ={ἀτρακτυλίς}, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.4.6.)]
(θείνω) murder, slaughter, τεύξασα πόσει φόνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.430; τοίσδεσσι φόνον καὶ κῆρα φυτεύει 2.165; φ. ῥάπτειν 16.379; μερμηρίζειν 2.325; ὁρμαίνειν 4.843; σμικρῇσι φόνον φέρει ὀρνίθεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.757, etc.; φόνον πράσσειν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.46; ἀκούσιον φ. ἐξεργάσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 869a; βουλεῦσαί τινι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1055; ἔθου φόνον [prev. author] “OC” 542 (Lyric poetry); ἐκπορίζειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1114)]; of arrows, φ. προπέμπειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 105)]; τὸν Δωριέος πρὸς Ἐγεσταίων φόνον ἐκπρήξασθαι exact vengeance for the killing.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.158)]; κατὰ ζῴων φόνου καὶ μὴ φόνου ὧδε ἔχει killing or not-killing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 257)]; in poetry phrases, φ. συρίζειν, κινύρεσθαι, πνεῖν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 357 (assuming variant), “Th.” 123 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 1309)]; φ. τινός the murder of.., [Refs ([prev. author] “Eu.” 580, etc.)]; φ. Ἑλληνικὸς μέγιστος slaughter of Greeks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.170; ὅμαιμος αὐθέντης φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 212; πατρῷος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 955)]; πολύκερως, ἄρνειος φ., [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 55, 309; ἐπὶ φόνῳ πράσσεις φόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1579, compare “HF” 1084 (Lyric poetry); γέρων φ. μηκέτ᾽ ἐν δόμοις τέκοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 805 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ὁ ὑπὸ Θήβης Ἀλεξάνδρον φ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.856a; ὁ κατὰ τῶν πολιτῶν φ. 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.8: _plural_, φόνοι τ᾽ ἀνδροκτασίαι τε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.612 (personified in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 228); ἔμφυλοι φ. ἀνδρῶν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 51, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 962.)]
2 in law, murder, homicide, δικάζειν τοὺς βασιλέας αἰτιῶν φόνου Legal Dracontis cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.115.12; φόνου διώκειν τινά 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.9; δικάζειν δίκας φόνου [prev. author] 5.11; παραδοῦναι φόνου δίκην [prev. author] 6.42; ἁλῶναι [prev. author] 5.59, etc.; φεύγειν 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 133 (poetry, παίδων φόνον φεύγουσα)] fleeing from.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 795))]; ἔνοχοι τῷ φόνῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.11; φόνου ὑπόδικος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.25)]; φόνου καθαρός, ἁγνός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 451b, “Lg.” 759c: ἀκούσιος φ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.72; φόνων ἀπέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1032 (_anapaest meter_); αἱ τῶν φ. δίκαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 778d; φόνοι.. φόνοις δεόμενοι καθαίρεσθαι [prev. work] 870c, +others)]; λαγχάνονται αἱ τοῦ φ. δίκαι πρὸς [τὸν βασιλέα] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 57.2.)]
3 death as a punishment, φ. προκεῖσθαι δημόλευστον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 36.)]
4 blood when shed, gore, ἂμ φόνον, ἂν νέκυας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.298; κέατ᾽ ἐν φόνῳ 24.610; ἐρευγόμενοι φόνον αἵματος 16.162; φ. κέχυται γυναίκων 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “fragment” 153 Lobel; φόνον κεύθειν 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 100.4; μέλανι ῥαίνων φόνῳ πεδίον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).55; φόνου κηκίς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 1012; ἐμοῦσα θρόμβους οὓς ἀφείλκυσας φόνου [prev. author] “Eu.” 184; σταγόνες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1278; σταλαγμοί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 241; χεῖρα χραίνεσθαι φόνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 43)]; of a sacrifice, ταυρείου φόνου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 44; Ἕλλην οὗ καταστάζει φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 72)]; rarely in Prose of blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.73.)]
5 corpse, πρὶν ἴδω τὸν Ἑλένας φόνον.. κείμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1357 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ φόνῳ χαμαιπετεῖ ματρός [prev. work] 1491 (Lyric poetry).)]
6 rascal that deserves death, gallowsbird, a Dorian phrase, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 662.4.)]
II of the agent or instrument of slaughter, φόνον ἔμμεναι ἡρώεσσι to be a death to heroes, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.144, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.24)]; of poison, [LXX (“Mim.Oxy.” 413.180; ἐν φόνῳ μαχαίρας LXX.Exo.17.13, LXX.Deu.13.15(16), 20.13)]; without ἐν, [LXX (LXX.Num.21.24.)]
III ={ἀτρακτυλίς}, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.4.6.)]