Word Summary
andrapodistēs: a slave dealer
Original Word: ἀνδραποδιστήςTransliteration: andrapodistēs
Phonetic Spelling: (an-drap-od-is-tace')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a slave dealer
Meaning: a slave dealer
Strong's Concordance
kidnapper, slave trader.
From a derivative of a compound of aner and pous; an enslaver (as bringing men to his feet) -- menstealer.
see GREEK aner
see GREEK pous
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 405: ἀνδραποδιστήςἀνδραποδιστής,
ἀνδραποδιστου,
ὁ (from
ἀνδραποδίζω, and this from
τό ἀνδράποδον — from
ἀνήρ and
πούς — a slave, a man taken in war and sold into slavery),
a slave-dealer, kidnapper, man-stealer, i. e. as well one who unjustly reduces free men to slavery, as one who steals the slaves of others and sells them:
1 Timothy 1:10. (
Aristophanes,
Xenophon,
Plato,
Demosthenes,
Isocrates,
Lysias,
Polybius)