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GreekG0435Noun (Masculine)

ἀνήρ

anēr

195Occurrences
G0435Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a man (properly as an individual male)

a primary word (compare G444 (ἄνθρωπος));

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
a man, Lat. vir.
1.As opposite to a woman
2.As opposite to a boy or infant
3.In appos. with a noun or adj., as ἀ. ἁμαρτωλός
4.In general, a man, a male person
Synonyms
ἄνθρωπος, which see .
LXX: chiefly for אִישׁ, frequently אֱנוֹשׁ, also אָדָם, etc.

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

G:N-M

Full Description

Greek Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

ἀνήρ appears 195 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Acts
99
Luke
26
1 Corinthians
20
Matthew
8
Ephesians
7
James
6
John
6
1 Timothy
5

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 11:3BSB

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Acts 10:28BSB

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Acts 21:11BSB

Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”

Acts 7:26BSB

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

Luke 17:12BSB

As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.