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Strong's G5408 φόνος (phonos)

Phonos means “murder” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5408 — nathach (“divide”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5408
Language Greek
Linked Usages 34
Books 22

Strong's G5408 Quick Answer

Strong's G5408 φόνος (phonos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phonos (fon'-os) n. 1. murder [from an obsolete primary pheno "to slay"] It has 34 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include murders, murder, slaughter, and slain. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
phonos (fon'-os) n. 1. murder [from an obsolete primary pheno "to slay"]
Usage
34 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
murders, murder, slaughter, and slain

Meaning and Definition

phonos (fon'-os) n. 1. murder [from an obsolete primary pheno "to slay"] KJV: murder, + be slain with, slaughter

Original Word
φόνος
Transliteration
phonos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5408. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

murder

Usage: φόνος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX for דָּם, פֶּה, etc. ;] murder, slaughter: Mrk.15:7, Luk.23:19, 25, Act.9:1, Rom.1:29; φ. μαχαίρης (cf. Exo.17:13, al.), Heb.11:37; pl., Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21, Rev.9:21.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5408 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phonos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

murder Mark 15:7 murders Matthew 15:19 slain Hebrews 11:37 slaughter Acts 9:1

How Strong's G5408 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 16 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5408 (φόνος) appears 24 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5408 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5408 in the New Testament

10 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 15:19 KJV

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Mark 7:21 KJV

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Mark 15:7 KJV

And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

Strong's G5408 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

16 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 5:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And they say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to him: we will go therefore a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.

Exodus 17:13 Septuagint / Brenton

And Joshua routed Amalek and all his people with the slaughter of the sword.

Exodus 22:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And if the thief be found in the breach made by himself and be smitten and die, there shall not be blood shed for him.

Strong's G5408 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 2:11 Septuagint / Brenton

But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them; but put them to the slaughter, and spoil them wheresoever thou goest.

Judith 8:22 Septuagint / Brenton

And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in bondage; and we shall be an offense and a reproach to all them that possess us.

Judith 9:3 Septuagint / Brenton

wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain, so that they dyed their bed in blood, being deceived, and smotest the servants with their lords, and the lords upon their thrones;

Strong's G5408 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 12:6 Septuagint / Brenton

of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'

Usage Excerpts

First 34 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5408.

Exodus 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to him: we will go therefore a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.
Exodus 17:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua routed Amalek and all his people with the slaughter of the sword.
Exodus 22:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the thief be found in the breach made by himself and be smitten and die, there shall not be blood shed for him.
Leviticus 26:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and ye shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with slaughter.
Numbers 21:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and they became possessors of his land, from Arnon to Jabbok, as far as the children of Ammon, for Jazer is the borders of the children of Ammon.
Deuteronomy 13:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
thou shalt utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; ye shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it.
Deuteronomy 20:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
until the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, and thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the sword:
Deuteronomy 22:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou shouldest build a new house, then shalt thou make a parapet to thy house; so thou shalt not bring bloodguiltiness upon thy house, if one should in anywise fall from it.
Deuteronomy 28:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord smite thee with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue thee until they have destroyed thee.
Job 21:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? And does not he judge murders?
Proverbs 1:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; And the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
Jeremiah 22:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thy heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
Ezekiel 43:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;
Ezekiel 43:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
when they set my doorway by their doorway, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.
Ezekiel 43:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
Hosea 4:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
Matthew 15:19 New Testament, KJV
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21 New Testament, KJV
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mark 15:7 New Testament, KJV
And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
Luke 23:19 New Testament, KJV
(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
Luke 23:25 New Testament, KJV
And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
Acts 9:1 New Testament, KJV
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
Romans 1:29 New Testament, KJV
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Galatians 5:21 New Testament, KJV
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Hebrews 11:37 New Testament, KJV
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
Revelation 9:21 New Testament, KJV
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Judith 2:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them; but put them to the slaughter, and spoil them wheresoever thou goest.
Judith 8:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in bondage; and we shall be an offense and a reproach to all them that possess us.
Judith 9:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain, so that they dyed their bed in blood, being deceived, and smotest the servants with their lords, and the lords upon their thrones;
2 Maccabees 4:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon’s faction murders were committed,
2 Maccabees 4:35 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the which cause not only the Jews, but many also of other nations, took great indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of the man.
3 Maccabees 3:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So that there reigned in all men without exception, blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, Corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,
1 Enoch 12:6 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5408, grouped by book.

Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G5408 FAQ

What does phonos (φόνος) mean?

Phonos (Strong's G5408) is a Greek word most simply glossed "murder". phonos (fon'-os) n. 1. murder [from an obsolete primary pheno "to slay"]

How many times is phonos (φόνος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 34 linked usages for Strong's G5408 across 22 books.

Where can I study phonos (φόνος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5408 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate phonos (φόνος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as murders, murder, slaughter, and slain. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5408 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 16 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5408, with linked reader references where each row is available.