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ἄνθρωπος

anthrōposa humanHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentNoun · masculine551 occurrences24 books498 verses

Definition

ἄνθρωπος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for אִישׁ ,אָדָם, also for אֱנוֹשׁ, etc. ;]

man:

1. generically, a human being, male or female (Lat. homo): John 16:21; with art., Matthew 4:4; 12:35, Mark 2:27, John 2:25, Romans 7:1, al; disting. from God, Matthew 19:6, John 10:33, Colossians 3:23, al.; from animals, etc., Matthew 4:19, Luke 5:10, Revelation 9:4, al.; implying human frailty and imperfection, 1 Corinthians 3:4; σοφία ἀνθρώπων, 1 Corinthians 2:5; ἀνθρώπων ἐπιθυμίαι, 1 Peter 4:2; κατὰ ἄνθρωπον περιπατεῖν, 1 Corinthians 3:3; κατὰ ἄ. λέγειν (λαλεῖν), Romans 3:5, 1 Corinthians 9:8; κατὰ ἄ- λέγειν, Galatians 3:15 (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:32, Galatians 1:11); by meton., of man's nature or condition, ὁ ἔσω (ἔξω) ἄ., Romans 7:22, Ephesians 3:16, 2 Corinthians 4:16 (cf. 1 Peter 3:4); ὁ παλαιὸς, καινὸς, νέος ἄ., Romans 6:6, Ephesians 2:15; 4:22, 24, Colossians 3:9, 10; joined with another subst., ἄ. ἔμπορος, a merchant, Matthew 13:45 (WH, txt. om. ἄ.); οἰκοδεσπότης, Matthew 13:52; βασιλεύς, 18:23; φάγος, 11:19; with name of nation, Κυρηναῖος, Matthew 27:32; Ἰουδαῖος, Acts 21:39; Ῥωμαῖος, Acts 16:37; pl. οἱ ἄ., men, people: Matthew 5:13, 16, Mark 8:24, John 4:28; οὐδεὶς ἀνθρώπων, Mark 11:2, 1 Timothy 6:16.

2. Indef., ἄ. = τις, some one, a man: Matthew 17:14, Mark 12:1, al.; τις ἄ., Matthew 18:12, John 5:5, al.; indef. one (Fr. on), Romans 3:28, Galatians 2:16, al.; opposite to women, servants, etc., Matthew 10:36; 19:10, John 7:22, 23.

3. Definitely, with art., of some particular person; Matthew 12:13, Mark 3:5, al.; οὗτος ὁ ἄ., Luke 14:30; ὁ ἄ οὗτος, ἐκεῖνος, Mark 14:71, Matthew 12:45; ὁ ἄ. τ. ἀνομίας, 2 Thessalonians 2:3; ἄ τ. θεοῦ (of Heb. אִישׁ אֱלֹהִים), 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 3:17, 2 Peter 1:21; ὁ υἰὸς τοῦ ἀ., see: υἱός.

Synonyms: ἀνήρ, which see (and cf. MM, VGT, 44; Cremer, 103, 635).

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ἄνθρωπος:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

551 total
  1. Acts 16:17ἄνθρωποι · men
    This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!”
  2. Acts 16:20ἄνθρωποι · men
    They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil
  3. Acts 16:35ἀνθρώπους · men
    When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”
  4. Acts 16:37ἀνθρώπους
    But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”
  5. Acts 17:26ἀνθρώπων · of men
    From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
  6. Acts 17:29ἀνθρώπου · by man’s
    Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
  7. Acts 17:30ἀνθρώποις · people
    Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
  8. Acts 18:13ἀνθρώπους · [people]
    “This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.
  9. Acts 19:16ἄνθρωπος · man
    Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. The attack was so violent that they ran out of the house naked and wounded.
  10. Acts 19:35ἀνθρώπων · [everyone]
    Finally the city clerk quieted the crowd and declared, “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?
  11. Acts 21:28ἄνθρωπος · man
    …crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
  12. Acts 21:39ἄνθρωπος
    But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
  13. Acts 22:15ἀνθρώπους
    You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.
  14. Acts 22:25ἄνθρωπον · a
    But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?”
  15. Acts 22:26ἄνθρωπος · man
    On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
  16. Acts 23:9ἀνθρώπῳ · man
    A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
  17. Acts 24:16ἀνθρώπους · man
    In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
  18. Acts 25:16ἄνθρωπον · man {over}
    I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.
  19. Acts 25:22ἀνθρώπου · man
    Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear this man myself.” “Tomorrow you will hear him,” Festus declared.
  20. Acts 26:31ἄνθρωπος · man
    On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”
  21. Acts 26:32ἄνθρωπος · man
    And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
  22. Acts 28:4ἄνθρωπος · man
    When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
  23. Romans 1:18ἀνθρώπων · of men
    The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
  24. Romans 1:23ἀνθρώπου · man
    …and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
  25. Romans 2:1ἄνθρωπε · [you]
    You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
  26. Romans 2:3ἄνθρωπε · man
    So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
  27. Romans 2:9ἀνθρώπου · human
    There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
  28. Romans 2:16ἀνθρώπων · men’s
    …on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
  29. Romans 2:29ἀνθρώπων · men
    No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.
  30. Romans 3:4ἄνθρωπος · man
    Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
  31. Romans 3:5ἄνθρωπον · human terms
    But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
  32. Romans 3:28ἄνθρωπον · a man
    For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
  33. Romans 4:6ἀνθρώπου · man
    And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
  34. Romans 5:12ἀνθρώπου · man; ἀνθρώπους · men
    Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
  35. Romans 5:15ἀνθρώπου · man
    But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
  36. Romans 5:18ἀνθρώπους · men; ἀνθρώπους · men
    So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.
  37. Romans 5:19ἀνθρώπου · man
    For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
  38. Romans 6:6ἄνθρωπος · self
    We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
  39. Romans 7:1ἀνθρώπου · a man
    Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
  40. Romans 7:22ἄνθρωπον · being
    For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
  41. Romans 7:24ἄνθρωπος · man
    What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
  42. Romans 9:20ἄνθρωπε · man
    But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
  43. Romans 10:5ἄνθρωπος · man [who]
    For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
  44. Romans 12:17ἀνθρώπων
    Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
  45. Romans 12:18ἀνθρώπων
    If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.
  46. Romans 14:18ἀνθρώποις · by men
    For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
  47. Romans 14:20ἀνθρώπῳ · for a man
    Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
  48. 1 Corinthians 1:25ἀνθρώπων · than man’s [wisdom]
    For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.