A human
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Ἄνθρωπος is a Greek noun for a human being, person, mankind, or man, depending on context. It can refer to humanity generally, an individual person, male humanity in a particular setting, or the representative human role of Adam and Christ.
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Ἄνθρωπος is a Greek noun for a human being, person, mankind, or man, depending on context. It can refer to humanity generally, an individual person, male humanity in a particular setting, or the representative human role of Adam and Christ.
The BSB source-word alignment has 551 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Man (131), men (85), of Man (79), a man (60), . . . (37).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 4:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (115), Luke (95), John (60), Mark (56).
This entry includes 10 verse guides that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Ἄνθρωπος is a Greek noun for a human being, person, mankind, or man, depending on context. It can refer to humanity generally, an individual person, male humanity in a particular setting, or the representative human role of Adam and Christ.
Pastorally, this word matters because Scripture speaks honestly about human dependence, sin, weakness, dignity, and redemption. Man does not live by bread alone. Sin and death entered through one man. Resurrection comes through a man. The one mediator is the man Christ Jesus.
The word should not be made to carry a gender claim every time it appears. The sentence decides whether the referent is a human being, people generally, a male person, Adam, Christ, or humanity under comparison with God.
Anthropos is currently counted about 550 times in the local Greek artifact. It commonly names a human being, person, mankind, or man in context.
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Jesus cites Scripture that man does not live by bread alone. The word points to human dependence on God's word.
When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
Pilate says, Here is the man. The word identifies Jesus in His suffering and public humiliation.
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.
Paul speaks of sin entering through one man and death passing to all. The word belongs to Adamic humanity.
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
Death came through a man and resurrection comes through a man. The word serves the Adam and Christ contrast.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Paul names the one mediator as the man Christ Jesus. The word supports Christ's true humanity in mediation.
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Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Greek word. a human
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 559 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
a man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read versea man, one of the human race
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 9 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
ἄνθρωπος is built from these roots:
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Anthropos names human beings or a human person. In key passages, it helps readers trace human dependence, Adamic fallenness, and Christ's true humanity.
Matt.4.4
Anthropos may be generic, individual, representative, or contextually male. The article, modifiers, and argument decide the referent.
Scripture traces humanity from creation dependence through Adamic sin to the true humanity and mediation of Christ. anthropos often marks that human side of the storyline.
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