phoneus · murderer

What it means

phoneus (φονεύς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “murderer”.

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. One who deliberately kills another person.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• murderers ×4
• murderer ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Acts×3
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 22:7

  The king was angered, and sending his troops, he destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

• Acts 3:14

  But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a man who was a murderer to be granted to you,

• Acts 7:52

  Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,

• Acts 28:4

  And when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they were saying to one another, “This man is surely a murderer; though he was brought safely out of the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

• 1 Peter 4:15

  For let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

• Revelation 21:8

  But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and detestable and murderers and the sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

• Revelation 22:15

  Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who holds dear and practices falsehood.