arrhēn · male

What it means

arrhēn (ἄῤῥην) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “male”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Of the masculine sex, as distinct from woman.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• male ×6
• males ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• Romans×3
• Galatians×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 19:4

  But he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

• Mark 10:6

  But from the beginning of creation, ‘male and female he made them.’

• Luke 2:23

  (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord”),

• Romans 1:27

  and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their desire for one another, males with males committing the indecency and receiving in themselves the penalty that was due for their error.

• Galatians 3:28

  There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; there is no male and female; for you are all one in the Messiah Jesus.

• Revelation 12:5

  And she gave birth to a son, a male, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

• Revelation 12:13

  And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

And 2 more times.