STRONGS NUMBER G405


Word Summary
andrapodistēs: a slave dealer
Original Word: ἀνδραποδιστής
Transliteration: 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: ἀνδραποδιστής

ἀνδραποδιστής, ἀνδραποδιστου, (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)