Quick Definition
a male human being, a man
Strong's Definition
a man (properly as an individual male)
Derivation: a primary word (compare G444 (ἄνθρωπος));
KJV Usage: fellow, husband, man, sir
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ, a man, Latinvir. The meanings of this word in the N. T. differ in no respect from classic usage; for it is employed
1. with a reference to sex, and so to distinguish a man from a woman; either a. as a male: Act_8:12; Act_17:12; 1Ti_2:12; or b. as a husband: Mat_1:16; Mar_10:2; Joh_4:16 ff; Rom_7:2 ff; 1Co_7:2 ff; Gal_4:27; 1Ti_3:2; 1Ti_3:12; Tit_1:6, etc.; a betrothed or future husband: Mat_1:19; Rev_21:2, etc.
2. with a reference to age, and to distinguish an adult man from a boy: Mat_14:21; Mat_15:38 (where ἄνδρες, γυναῖκες and παιδία are discriminated): with the added notion also of intelligence and virtue: 1Co_13:11 (opposed to νήπιος); Eph_4:13; Jas_3:2 (in the last two passages τέλειος ἀνήρ).
3. universally, any male person, a man; so where τίς might have been used: Luk_8:41; Luk_9:38; Act_6:11; Act_10:5, etc. where ἀνήρ and τίς are united: Luk_8:27; Act_5:1; Act_10:1. or ἀνήρ and ὅς he who, etc.: Rom_4:8; Jas_1:12. where mention is made of something usually done by men, not by women: Luk_22:63; Act_5:36. where angels or other heavenly beings are said to have borne the forms of men: Luk_9:30; Luk_24:4; Act_10:30. where it is so connected with an adjective as to give the adjective the force of a substantive: ἀνήρ ἁμαρτωλός a sinner, Luk_5:8; λεπροί ἄνδρες, Luk_17:12; or is joined to appellatives: ἀνήρ φονεύς, Act_3:14; ἀνήρ προφήτης, Luk_24:19 (πΘαΔιΰ ΰΔιωΡ, Jdg_6:8; (cf. Winers Grammar, 30; § 59, 1; Buttmann, 82 (72); other references under the word ἄνθρωπος, 4 a. at the end)) or to gentile names: ἄνδρες Νινευῖται, Mat_12:41; ἀνήρ Ἰουδαῖος, Act_22:3; ἀνήρ Αἰθίοψ, Act_8:27; ἄνδρες Κύπριοι, Act_11:20; especially in addresses of honor and respect (Winers Grammar, § 65, 5 d.; Buttmann, 82 (72)), Act_1:11; Act_2:14; Act_13:16; Act_17:22, etc.; even ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, Act_1:16; (Act_2:29; Act_2:37; Act_7:2); 13:(15),26, etc.
4. when persons of either sex are included, but named after the more important: Mat_14:35; Act_4:4; (Meyer seems inclined (see his commentary on Acts, the passage cited) to dispute even these examples; but others would refer several other instances (especially Luk_11:31; Jas_1:20) to the same entry).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνήρ anēr 216x
a male person of full age and stature, as opposed to a child or female, 1Co_13:11 ; a husband, Mat_1:16 ; a man, human being, individual, Luk_11:31 ; used also pleonastically with other nouns and adjectives, Luk_5:8 ; Act_1:16 husband; man.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀνήρ , ἀνδρός , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H376 , freq . H582 , also H120 etc.;]
a man, Lat. vir.
1. As opp . to a woman, Act_8:12 , 1Ti_2:12 ; as a husband, Mat_1:16 , Joh_4:16 , Rom_7:2 , Tit_1:6 .
2. As opp . to a boy or infant, 1Co_13:11 , Eph_4:13 , Jas_3:2
3. In appos. with a noun or adj. , as ἀ . ἁμαρτωλός , Luk_5:8 ; ἀ . προφήτης , Luk_24:19 ; freq . in terms of address, as ἀ . ἀδελφοί , Act_1:16 ; and esp . with gentilic names, as ἀ .Ἰουδαῖος , Act_22:3 ; ἀ . Ἐφέσιοι , Act_19:35 .
4. In general, a man, a male person: τις , Luk_8:41 , Act_6:11 .
SYN.: ἄνθρωπος G444 , q.v. ( cf. MM , VGT , s.v. ).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνήρ [page 43]
The special differentia of ἀνήρ : ἄνθρωπος survives in MGr (ἄντρας , ἄθρωπος ), where even the old gen. sing. (ἀντρός ) may still be found beside the regular τοῦ ἄντρα (Thumb Handbook , p. 48). Naturally there is nothing particular to record in the uses of this everyday word, which has in NT and Hellenistic generally much the same range as in class. Gk. Thus, taking the index to BGU IV., we can illustrate many of the uses noted for the NT in Grimm from documents of the Augustan period. So (1) husband by the perpetual phrase μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρός after the name of a woman, as 1126 .4 (where ἀνδρός is written over an erased ὁμομητρίου ἀδελφοῦ ), or in a marriage contract as 1098 .33 τηρεῖν τὰ πρὸς τὸ̣ν̣ ἄνδρ̣α̣ καὶ τὸν κοινὸν βίον δίκαια , while the document will also use ἀνήρ for irregular relations in the pledge μηδ᾽ ἄλλωι ἀνδρὶ συνεῖναι̣. Then under Grimm s (3) we have 1189 .11 οἱ σημαινόμενοι ἄνδρες the persons named, 1061 .7 where Patellis and ἄλλοι , ἄνδρες ῑε̅ committed a burglary; the common phrase (τὸ ) κατ᾽ ἄνδρα , viritim, in 1047 iii. 11 (A.D. 131); and (from A.D. 196) 1022 .7 ἄνδρες κράτιστοι in address (cf. II. 646 .20 A.D. 193 ὦ ἄνδρ ]ες Ἀλεξανδρεῖς ) accounts for another use. Ἀνήρ in distinction from νήπιος or παιδίον alone remains : of this less common use we do not happen to notice an example, but literature supplies them in plenty. We might add as an instance of technical use ἀνδρῶν καὶ ἱππέω [ν ], P Flor II. 278 iv. 29 (iii/A.D.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνήρ [Etym: Root ΑΝΕΡ] "a man", Lat. vir (not "homo"): "a man", opp. to "a woman", Hom. , etc. "a man", opp. to a god, πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε id=Hom. "a man", opp. to a youth, "a man in the prime of life", id=Hom. , etc.; εἰς ἄνδρας ἐγγράφεσθαι to be enrolled among "the men", Dem. "a man" emphatically, "a man indeed", ἀνέρες ἔστε, φίλοι Il. ; πολλοὶ μὲν ἄνθρωποι, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἄνδρες many human beings, but few "men", Hdt. "a man", opp. to his "wife, a husband", Hom. , etc.; αἰγῶν ἄνερ, Virgil's "vir gregis", Theocr.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for אִישׁ, frequently אֱנוֹשׁ, also אָדָם, etc. ;]
a man, Lat. vir.
__1. As opposite to a woman, Act.8:12, 1Ti.2:12; as a husband, Mat.1:16, Jhn.4:16, Rom.7:2, Tit.1:6.
__2. As opposite to a boy or infant, 1Co.13:11, Eph.4:13, Jas.3:2.
__3. In appos. with a noun or adj., as ἀ. ἁμαρτωλός, Luk.5:8; ἀ. προφήτης, 24:19; frequently in terms of address, as ἀ. ἀδελφοί, Act.1:16; and esp. with gentilic names, as ἀ. Ἰουδαῖος, Act.22:3; ἀ. Ἐφέσιοι, 19:35.
__4. In general, a man, a male person: = τις, Luk.8:41, Act.6:11.
SYN.: ἄνθρωπος, which see (cf. MM, VGT, see word). (AS)
Bible Occurrences (194)
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