phonos · murder

What it means

phonos (φόνος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “murder”.

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. Taking a life violently.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

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

• murder ×5
• murders ×3
• they were killed ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×2
• Luke×2
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the heart of people, come the evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

• Mark 15:7

  And there was the man called Barabbas, bound with the rebels who in the uprising had committed murder.

• Luke 23:19

  (one who had been thrown into prison because of a certain uprising that had happened in the city, and for murder.)

• Luke 23:25

  and he released the one who had been thrown into prison for uprising and murder, whom they were asking for, but Jesus he handed over to their will.

• Acts 9:1

  But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

• Romans 1:29

  filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; they are gossips,

• Hebrews 11:37

  They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goat skins, destitute, afflicted, mistreated

• Revelation 9:21

  and they did not change their minds from their murders or from their sorceries or from their sexual immorality or from their thefts.