Word Summary
anthrōpoktonos: a manslayer
Original Word: ἀνθρωποκτόνοςTransliteration: anthrōpoktonos
Phonetic Spelling: (anth-ro-pok-ton'-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a manslayer
Meaning: a manslayer
Strong's Concordance
murderer.
From anthropos and kteino (to kill); a manslayer -- murderer. Compare phoneus.
see GREEK anthropos
see GREEK phoneus
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 443: ἀνθρωποκτόνοςἀνθρωποκτόνος,
ἀνθρωποκτονον (
κτείνω to kill),
a manslayer, murderer:
John 8:44. contextually, to be deemed equal to a murderer,
1 John 3:15. (
Euripides, Iph. T. (382) 389.) (Cf.
Trench, § 83, and
φονεύς.)