G435: ἀνήρ (anḗr)

Quick Definition

ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ n.m. a male human being, a man

Strong's Definition

a primary word (compare 444); a man (properly as an individual male)

KJV Usage: fellow, husband, man, sir

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀνήρ (G0435)

noun, m. | ἀνδρός | ἀνδρίζομαι

9.24 · People · Males

man an adult male person of marriageable age In some languages the equivalent of ‘now that I am a man’ is ‘now that I am grown’ or ‘now that I have become strong.’

MAT 7:24 · MAT 7:26 · MAT 14:21 · MAT 15:38 · MRK 6:20 · MRK 6:44 · LUK 1:27 · LUK 1:34 · LUK 5:8 · LUK 5:12 · LUK 5:18 · LUK 6:8 · LUK 7:20 · LUK 8:27 · LUK 8:38 · LUK 8:41 · LUK 9:14 · LUK 9:30 · LUK 9:32 · LUK 9:38 · LUK 14:24 · LUK 17:12 · LUK 19:2 · LUK 19:7 · LUK 22:63 · LUK 23:50 · LUK 23:50 · LUK 24:4 · LUK 24:19 · JHN 1:30 · ACT 1:10 · ACT 1:16 · ACT 1:21 · ACT 2:22 · ACT 2:37 · ACT 3:2 · ACT 3:12 · ACT 3:14 · ACT 4:4 · ACT 5:1 · ACT 5:14 · ACT 5:25 · ACT 5:35 · ACT 5:36 · ACT 6:3 · ACT 6:5 · ACT 6:11 · ACT 7:2 · ACT 7:26 · ACT 8:3 · ACT 8:9 · ACT 8:12 · ACT 8:27 · ACT 9:2 · ACT 9:7 · ACT 9:12 · ACT 9:13 · ACT 9:38 · ACT 10:1 · ACT 10:5 · ACT 10:17 · ACT 10:19 · ACT 10:21 · ACT 10:22 · ACT 10:30 · ACT 11:3 · ACT 11:11 · ACT 11:12 · ACT 11:20 · ACT 11:24 · ACT 13:6 · ACT 13:7 · ACT 13:15 · ACT 13:21 · ACT 13:22 · ACT 13:26 · ACT 14:8 · ACT 14:15 · ACT 15:7 · ACT 15:13 · ACT 15:22 · ACT 15:22 · ACT 15:25 · ACT 16:9 · ACT 17:5 · ACT 17:12 · ACT 17:22 · ACT 17:31 · ACT 18:24 · ACT 19:7 · ACT 19:25 · ACT 19:35 · ACT 19:37 · ACT 20:30 · ACT 21:11 · ACT 21:23 · ACT 21:26 · ACT 21:38 · ACT 22:3 · ACT 22:4 · ACT 22:12 · ACT 23:1 · ACT 23:6 · ACT 23:21 · ACT 23:27 · ACT 23:30 · ACT 24:5 · ACT 25:5 · ACT 25:14 · ACT 25:17 · ACT 25:23 · ACT 27:10 · ACT 27:21 · ACT 27:25 · ACT 28:17 · ROM 7:3 · ROM 7:3 · 1CO 11:3 · 1CO 11:3 · 1CO 11:4 · 1CO 11:7 · 1CO 11:7 · 1CO 11:8 · 1CO 11:8 · 1CO 11:9 · 1CO 11:9 · 1CO 11:11 · 1CO 11:11 · 1CO 11:12 · 1CO 11:12 · 1CO 11:14 · 1CO 13:11 · 1TI 2:8 · 1TI 2:12 · JAS 1:8 · JAS 2:2

9.1 · People · Human Beings

(in the singular) person, human being, individual, (in the plural) people, persons, mankind a human being (normally an adult) In MAT 14:35 (ἐπιγνόντες αὐτὸν οἱ ἄνδρες τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου ‘when the people of that place recognized him’) one may argue that οἱ ἄνδρες refers specifically to males, but the context would seem to indicate that the reference is to people in general. In translation a pronominal expression may frequently be employed when ἀνήρ[b] occurs in the text, for example, ‘when those who lived in that place recognized him.’
It is not uncommon in languages for a term which is often used to refer to an adult male to be employed also in a generic sense of ‘person.’ This is especially true when such terms are used in the plural form.
In a number of instances, generic meanings of receptor languages have not been recognized as such, since translators have assumed that such receptor-language terms refer only to members of a particular tribe or group (because they have been found only in specific contexts), while in reality such terms often designate people in general. One must, however, be on the alert for seemingly generic terms which refer only to the so-called ‘in-group,’ that is to say, members of a particular tribe, society, or community.
The parallelism in the ROM 4:8 quotation from PSA 32:1-PSA 32:2 indicates clearly that the reference of ἀνήρ is not a particular male but any person.

MAT 12:41 · MAT 14:35 · LUK 11:31 · LUK 11:32 · LUK 14:24 · JHN 6:10 · ACT 1:11 · ACT 2:5 · ACT 2:14 · ACT 2:22 · ACT 2:29 · ACT 8:2 · ACT 10:28 · ACT 13:16 · ACT 13:38 · ACT 17:34 · ACT 21:28 · ACT 22:1 · ACT 25:24 · ROM 4:8 · ROM 11:4 · EPH 4:13 · JAS 1:8 · JAS 1:12 · JAS 1:20 · JAS 1:23 · JAS 3:2

10.53 · Kinship Terms · Kinship Relations Based upon Marriage

husband a man who is married to a woman ἀνήρ in the meaning of ‘husband’ is normally clearly marked by context, usually involving a so- called ‘possessive marker,’ though in some contexts such as JHN 4:17 and MAT 19:10, the distinctions in meaning are quite clear, but it is only from each individual context that one can determine whether ἀνήρ means simply ‘man’ (see 9.24) or ‘husband.’ See also discussion at 10.54.

MAT 1:16 · MAT 1:19 · MRK 10:2 · MRK 10:12 · LUK 2:36 · LUK 16:18 · JHN 1:13 · JHN 4:16 · JHN 4:17 · JHN 4:17 · JHN 4:18 · JHN 4:18 · ACT 5:9 · ACT 5:10 · ROM 7:2 · ROM 7:2 · ROM 7:2 · ROM 7:3 · ROM 7:3 · 1CO 7:2 · 1CO 7:3 · 1CO 7:3 · 1CO 7:4 · 1CO 7:4 · 1CO 7:10 · 1CO 7:11 · 1CO 7:11 · 1CO 7:13 · 1CO 7:13 · 1CO 7:14 · 1CO 7:16 · 1CO 7:16 · 1CO 7:34 · 1CO 7:39 · 1CO 7:39 · 1CO 11:3 · 1CO 11:3 · 1CO 14:35 · 2CO 11:2 · GAL 4:27 · EPH 5:22 · EPH 5:23 · EPH 5:24 · EPH 5:25 · EPH 5:28 · EPH 5:33 · COL 3:18 · COL 3:19 · 1TI 3:2 · 1TI 3:12 · 1TI 5:9 · TIT 1:6 · TIT 2:5 · 1PE 3:1 · 1PE 3:5 · 1PE 3:7 · REV 21:2

¹ It is possible that ἄνθρωπος[b] differs somewhat from ἀνήρ[a] in connotation, since ἄνθρωπος[b] would perhaps be somewhat more generic in implications.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ, a man, Lat. vir. The meanings of this word in the N. T. differ in no respect fr. classic usage ; for it is employed 1. with a reference to sex, and so to distinguish a man from a woman; either a. asa male: Acts viii. 12; xvii.12; 1 Tim.ii.12; or b. asa husband: Mt.i.16; Mk. x.2; Jn. iv. 16 sqq.; Ro..vii. 2 sqq:; 1 Co. vii. 2 sqq.; Gal. iv. 27; 1 Tim. iii. 2,12; Tit. i. 6, etc.; a betrothed or future husband: Mt.i.19; Rev. xxi. 2, ete. 2. with a reference to age, and to distinguish an adult man from a boy: Mt. xiv. 21; xv. 38 (where ἄνδρες, γυναῖκες and παιδία are discriminated) ; with the added notion also of intelligence and virtue: 1 Co. xiii. 11 (opp. to νήπιος) ; Eph. iv. 13; Jas. iii. 2, (in the last two pass. τέλειος ἀνήρ). 3. univ. any male person, a man; so where tis might have been used: Lk. viii. 41; ix.38; Acts νἱ. 11; x.5,ete. where ἀνήρ and τὶς are united: Lk. viii. 27; Actsv.1; x.1. or ἀνήρ and ὅς he who, etc.: Ro. iv. 8; Jas.i.12. where mention is made of something usually done by men, not by women: Lk. xxii. 63; Acts v.36. where angels or other heavenly beings are said to have borne the forms of men: Lk. ix. 30; xxiv.4; Acts x. 30. where it is so connected with an adjective as to give the adj. the force of a substantive: ἀνὴρ ἁμαρτωλός a sinner, Lk. ν. 8; λεπροὶ ἄνδρες, Lk. xvii. 12; or is joined to appellatives: ἀνὴρ φονεύς, Acts iii. 14; av. προφήτης, Lk. xxiv. 19, (821 WS, Judg. vi. 8; [cef. W. 30; § 59,1; B. 82 (72); other reff. 5. v. ἄνθρωπος, 4 a. fin.]); or to gentile names: ἄνδρες Νινευῖται, Mt. xii. 41; ἀνὴρ ᾿Ιουδαῖος, Acts xxii. 3; av. Αἰθίοψ, Acts viii. 27; avd. Κύπριοι, Acts xi. 20; esp. in addresses of honor and respect [W. § 65, 5d.; B. 82 (72)], Actsi.11; ii. 14; xiii. 16; xvii. 22, ete.; even ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, Acts i. 16; [1]. 29,37; vii. 2]; xiii. [15], 26, ete. 4. when persons of either sex are included, but named after the more important: Mt. xiv. 35; Acts iv.4; [Meyer seems inclined (see his com. on Acts 1. c.) to dispute even these examples; but al. would refer several other instances (esp. Lk. xi. 31; Jas. i. 20) to the same head].

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀνήρ anēr 216x

a male person of full age and stature, as opposed to a child or female, 1 Cor. 13:11; a husband, Mt. 1:16; a man, human being, individual, Lk. 11:31; used also pleonastically with other nouns and adjectives, Lk. 5:8; Acts 1:16

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for אִישׁ, freq. אֱנוֹשׁ, also אָדָם, etc.;]

a man, Lat. vir. As opp. to a woman, Ac 8:12, I Ti 2:12; as a husband, Mt 1:16, Jo 4:16, Ro 7:2, Tit 1:6.

As opp. to a boy or infant, I Co 13:11, Eph 4:13, Ja 3:2.

In appos. with a noun or adj., as ἀ. ἁμαρτωλός, Lk 5:8; ἀ. προφήτης, 24:19; freq. in terms of address, as ἀ. ἀδελφοί, Ac 1:16; and esp. with gentilic names, as ἀ. Ἰουδαῖος, Ac 22:3; ἀ. Ἐφέσιοι, 19:35.

In general, a man, a male person: = τις, Lk 8:41, Ac 6:11.

SYN.: ἄνθρωπος, q.v. (cf. MM, VGT, s.v.).

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀνήρ. 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* (where ἀνδρός is written over an erased ὁμομητρίου ἀδελφοῦ), or in a marriage contract as τορϑ τηρεῖν τὰ πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρᾳ καὶ τὸν κοινὸν βίον δίκαια, while the document will also use ἀνήρ for irregular relations in the pledge μηδ᾽ ἄλλωι ἀνδρὶ συνεῖναι. Then under Grimm’s (3) we have 1189" of σημαινόμενοι ἄνδρες “the persons named,” 10617 where Patellis and ἄλλοι ἄνδρες te committed a burglary; the common phrase (τὸ) κατ᾽ ἄνδρα, ‘‘viritim,” in 1047 Hi (a.p. 131); and (from A.D. 196) 10227 ἄνδρες κράτιστοι in address (cf. II. 6462°— A.D. 193—@ ἄνδρ]ες ᾿Αλεξανδρεῖς) accounts for another use. ᾿Ανήρ in distinction from νήπιος or παιδίον alone remains : of this less common use we do not happen to notice an , avOpwrtvos example, but literature supplies them in plenty. We might add as an instance of technical use ἀνδρῶν καὶ ἱππέω[ν], P Flor IT. 278 iv- (jii/a.p.).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀνήρ (anēr) — man. ἀνήρ, ὁ, ἀνδρός, ἀνδρί, ἄνδρα, vocative ἄνερ: plural ἄνδρες, -δρῶν, -δράσι [ᾰ], -dras: Aeolic dialect dative plural ἄνδρεσι[Refs 7th c.BC+] for οἱ ἄνδρε; the Ionic dialect crasis is ὡνήρ, ὧνδρες, [Refs 5th c.BC+] [Epic dialect Poets mostly use ᾱ in arsi, ᾰ in thesi; but in trisyllable forms with stem ἀνέρ- always ; so also Trag. in Lyric poetry, [Refs 5th c.BC+] in nominative by analogy; cf. Sanskrit nar- from I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] ner-, nṛ- from nṛ-, Gk. ἀνδρ- from ṇr-):—man, opposed to woman (ἄνθρωπος being man as opposed to to beast), [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἄπαις without male children, [Refs 8th c.BC+] mostly of princes, leaders, etc., but also of free men; ἀ δήμου one of the people, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; with a qualifying word to indicate rank, ἀ. βουληφόρος[Refs 8th c.BC+]

II. man, opposed to god, πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε [Refs]; Διὸς ἄγγελοι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: most common in plural, yet sometimes in singular, e.g. [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—also of men, opposed to monsters, [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—of men in societies and cities, οὔτε παρ᾽ ἀνδράσιν οὔτ᾽ ἐν ναυσὶ κοίλαις[Refs 5th c.BC+]; and so probably, ἄλλοτε μέν τ᾽ ἐπὶ Κύνθου ἐβήσαο.., ἄλλοτε δ᾽ ἂν νήσους τε καὶ ἀνέρας..[Refs]

III. man, opposed to youth, unless the context determines the meaning, as in οὔ πως ἔστι νεωτέρῳ ἀνδρὶ μάχεσθαι ἄνδρα γέροντα[Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ἀ. alone always means a man in the prime of life, especially warrior, ἀ. ἕλεν ἄνδρα[Refs 8th c.BC+]; the several ages are given as παῖς, μειράκιον, ἀ., πρεσβύτης[Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἄνδρας ἐγγράφεσθαι, συντελεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Inscrr. relating to contests, opposed to παῖδες, [Refs]

IV. man emphatically, man indeed, ἀνέρες ἄστε, φίλοι[Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἐν ἀνδράσι not like a man, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνδρὸς τὰ προσπίπτοντα γενναίως φέρειν 'tis the part of a man.., [Refs 4th c.BC+]

V. husband, [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—also of a paramour, opposed to πόσις, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

VI. Special usages:

VI.1. joined with titles, professions, etc., ἰητρὸς ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀ. μάντις, ἀ. στρατηγός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; with names of nations, as Φοίνικες ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὦ ἄνδρες gentlemen of the jury, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence in Comedy, ἄ. ἰχθύες[Refs 5th c.BC+]

VI.2. ὁ ἀνήρ, by crasis Attic dialect ἁνήρ, Ionic dialect ὡνήρ, is frequently used emphatically for αὐτός, ἐκεῖνος[Refs 5th c.BC+]: sometimes so in oblique cases without the Article, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but not in Prose.

VI.3. ἀ. ὅδε, ὅδ᾽ ἀ., in Trag., ={ἐγώ}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

VI.4. πᾶς ἀ. every man, every one, frequently in [Refs 5th c.BC+]

VI.5. a man, any man, εἶτ᾽ ἄνδρα τῶν αὑτοῦ τι χρὴ προϊένα;[Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς.. ἐσθ᾽ ὁ πλοῦς 'tis not every one that can go, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

VI.6. ὦ δαιμόνι᾽ ἀνδρῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; and often with a superlative, ὦ φίλτατ᾽ ἀνδρῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]

VI.7. κατ᾽ ἄνδρα viritim, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so τοὺς κατ᾽ ἄνδρα individuals, opposed to κοινῇ τὴν πόλιν, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

VI.8. In [LXX]; ἀ. τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ προσκολληθήσεται 'each to his fellow', of leviathan's scales, [LXX]; with negatives, ἀ. μὴ ἐπισκεπήτω[Refs]any one, Le. [Refs]

VI.9. ἄνδρας γράφειν· τὸ ἐν διδασκάλου τὰ παιδία ὀνόματα γράφειν, [Refs 5th c.AD+]

VII. male animal, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

ἀνήρ (anēr) — man: husband. ἀνήρ, ὁ, ἀνδρός, ἀνδρί, ἄνδρα, vocative ἄνερ: plural ἄνδρες, -δρῶν, -δράσι [ᾰ], -dras: Aeolic dialect dative plural ἄνδρεσι[Refs 7th c.BC+] for οἱ ἄνδρε; the Ionic dialect crasis is ὡνήρ, ὧνδρες, [Refs 5th c.BC+] [Epic dialect Poets mostly use ᾱ in arsi, ᾰ in thesi; but in trisyllable forms with stem ἀνέρ- always ; so also Trag. in Lyric poetry, [Refs 5th c.BC+] in nominative by analogy; cf. Sanskrit nar- from I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] ner-, nṛ- from nṛ-, Gk. ἀνδρ- from ṇr-):—man, opposed to woman (ἄνθρωπος being man as opposed to to beast), [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἄπαις without male children, [Refs 8th c.BC+] mostly of princes, leaders, etc., but also of free men; ἀ δήμου one of the people, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; with a qualifying word to indicate rank, ἀ. βουληφόρος[Refs 8th c.BC+]