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Lexicon :: Strong's G5407 - phoneuō

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φονεύω
Transliteration
phoneuō (Key)
Pronunciation
fon-yoo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

φονεύω phoneúō, fon-yoo'-o; from G5406; to be a murderer (of):—kill, do murder, slay.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G5407 in the following manner: kill (10x), do murder (1x), slay (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G5407 in the following manner: kill (10x), do murder (1x), slay (1x).

  1. to kill, slay, murder

  2. to commit murder

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φονεύω phoneúō, fon-yoo'-o; from G5406; to be a murderer (of):—kill, do murder, slay.
STRONGS G5407:
φονεύω; future φονεύσω; 1 aorist ἐφόνευσα; (φονεύς); from (Pindar, Aeschylus), Herodotus down; the Sept. mostly for רָצֵח, also for הָרַג, הִכָּה, etc.; to kill, slay, murder; absolutely, to commit murder (A. V. kill): Matthew 5:21; James 4:2; οὐ (which see 6) φονεύσεις, Matthew 5:21; Matthew 19:18; Romans 13:9 (Exodus 20:15 [Exodus 20:13]); μή φονεύσῃς, Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20; James 2:11. τινα: Matthew 23:31, 35; James 5:6.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
20:13
Matthew
5:21; 5:21; 19:18; 23:31; 23:35
Mark
10:19
Luke
18:20
Romans
13:9
James
2:11; 4:2; 5:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5407 matches the Greek φονεύω (phoneuō),
which occurs 43 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:13 - “You shall not murder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13 - However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19 - The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - “ ‘But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30 - “ ‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - “ ‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:17 - “You shall not murder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 - That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:30 - The LORD also gave that city and its king into Israel’s hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:32 - The LORD gave Lachish into Israel’s hands, and Joshua took it on the second day. The city and everyone in it he put to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:35 - They captured it that same day and put it to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it, just as they had done to Lachish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:13 - So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Libnah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Gezer,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - The Levite clans of the Gershonites were given: from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Be Eshterah, together with their pasturelands—two towns;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Hammoth Dor and Kartan, together with their pasturelands—three towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:36 - from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer, Jahaz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38 - from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Mahanaim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:40 - While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” “That is your sentence,” the king of Israel said. “You have pronounced it yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - Say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:3 - After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11 - Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:3 - How long will you assault me? Would all of you throw me down— this leaning wall, this tottering fence?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6 - They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 - For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:26 - Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - “ ‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,[fn] burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - “Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:9 - As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
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