Acts 28:4:17Acts.28.4.W17TAB
φονεύς
phoneus
“a murderer”
- Transliteration
- pho-NEUS
- Extended
- pʰoh-NEH-oos
- IPA
- /pʰoˈneus/
Meaning by language
- English
- a murderer
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Phi | ph — as in phone (f) | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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The word
Word in context
- word
pho-NEUS
- sentence
hôs de EI-don hoi BAR-ba-roi kre-MA-me-non to thê-RI-on ek tês khei-ROS au-TOU pros al-LÊ-lous E-le-gon PAN-tôs pho-NEUS es-TIN ho AN-thrô-pos HOU-tos hon di-a-sô-THEN-ta ek tês tha-LAS-sês hê DI-kê zên ouk EI-a-sen
Exegesis
Their verdict begins with the emphatic adverb pantōs {Πάντως | pán-tōs} ‘certainly’, leading into the predicate phoneus {φονεύς | pho-neús} ‘murderer’ and the demonstrative houtos {οὗτος | hou-tos} ‘this man’, completed by the copula estin {ἐστιν | é-stin} ‘is’, forming a strong accusatory statement.
In context — Acts 28:4
But when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer; though he has been saved from the sea , Justice has not allowed him to live.”
About this coordinate
Acts 28:4:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Acts 28:4, so the Greek word φονεύς (phoneus) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.28.4.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.28.4.W17.S1) and character.