Quick Definition
ἄρσην, ενος, εν Adj male
Strong's Definition
male (as stronger for lifting)
Derivation: probably from G142 (αἴρω);
KJV Usage: male, man
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -εν, -ενος
79.102 · Features of Objects · Male, Female
male, man the male of any living creature
MAT 19:4 · MRK 10:6 · ROM 1:27 · ROM 1:27 · ROM 1:27 · GAL 3:28 · REV 12:5 · REV 12:13
10.45 · Kinship Terms · Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations
Collocation: ἄρσην διανοίγων μήτραν
firstborn son, firstborn male (an idiom, literally: male that opens the womb, and closely related in meaning to πρωτότοκος[a], ‘firstborn,’ 10.43) the first male offspring of a female A literal translation of the idiom ‘male that opens the womb’ may be extremely misleading in some languages, since it may refer to the first act of sexual intercourse and not to the birth of the first, male child.
1 LUK 2:23 This idiom is also discussed in 8.69 in connection with the meaning of μήτρα.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄρσην, -evos, 6, ἄρσεν, τό, also (acc. to R G in Rey. xii. 5, 13, and in many edd., that of Tdf. included, in Ro. i. 27
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄρσην arsēn 9x
male, of the male sex, Mt. 19:4; Mk. 10:6; Lk. 2:23; Rom. 1:27; Gal. 3:28; Rev. 12:5, 13*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἄρσην (ἄρρην, T, in Ro 1:27; Rec. in Re 12:5, 13), -ενος, ὁ, ἡ, ἄρσεν, τό
(old Attic for ἄρρην, v. supr.; both forms are found in π.; MM, s.v.), [in LXX chiefly for זָכָר;]
male: Mt 19:4, Mk 10:6, Lk 2:23, Ro 1:27, Ga 3:28, Re 12:5, 13.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἄρσην. The form ἄρσην, which WH read throughout, is illustrated by P Oxy IV. 744° (B.c. 1) (=Se/ections, p. 33) where with reference to the birth of a child it is directed ἐὰν ἣν (ὁ ἢ) ἄρσενον ἄφες, ἐὰν ἦν (/. ἦ) θήλεα ἔκβαλε: cf. also P Gen I, 355 (A.D. 161) κ[αμήλους] [τε]λείους ἄρσενας δύο λευκούς. In P Oxy I. 3717 (A.D. 49) (= Selections, p. 49) we have ἀρρενικὸν σωμάτιον, but in 74. 387 (a document dealing with the same incident, A.D. 49-50) (= Selections, p. 53) it is ἀρσενικὸν σωμάτιον. For ἄρρην see further CPR 2813 (A.D. 110) τῶν δὲ ἀρρένων υἱῶν, BGU I, 885 (A.D. 147) κάμηλ(ον) ἄρρενον [A]evkdy, P Strass 1. 30! (A.D. 276) ἀρρενικὰ ἑπτά, P Lond 461% (magic, iv/a.D.) (=I. p. 68) θῆλυ καὶ ἄρρεν. Ostr 1601 has παιδίου ἀρσενικοῦ : cf. P Oxy IX. 1216" (iiili A.D.) q Kal ἀρσενεικὸν ἡμῖν ἀφίκαταί[ι :), “Have you produced us a male child?” (Ed.), and the MGr ἀρσενικός. There is an important investigation into the rationale of the variation between po and pp in the Κοινή in Wackernagel He//enistica, p. 12ff.: also see Thumb Hedlen., p. 77 f. A further orthographic difference appears in P Petr III. 59 ὁ (iii/ii 8.6.) σώματα ἐρσενικά : see other instances, and a discussion on ἀρτέμων 80 dialect points involved, in Mayser Gr. p. 5; and cf. Thumb’s Gr, Dial. (index s.v. ἔρσην).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἄρρην, ἄρσην (arrēn, arsēn) — male. ἄρσην, ὁ, ἡ, ἄρσεν, τό, genitive ἄρσενος, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, and Trag.: Attic dialect ἄρρην [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Aeolic dialect, Cretan dialect, Epid., and [Refs 5th c.BC+] ἔρσην, which see; ἀρσ- prevails in LXX and NT, ἀρρ- is more common in Papyrus (exc. Papyrus Mag.): nominative ἄρσης [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—male, μήτε τις οὖν θήλεια θεὸς.. μήτε τις ἄρσην[Refs 8th c.BC+]; γονή[Refs 5th c.BC+] the male, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἄρσενες the male sex, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. masculine, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, mighty, κτύπος ἄρσην πόντου[Refs 5th c.BC+]; of plants, robust, coarse, opposed to θῆλυς (tender, delicate), [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. of gender of nouns, masculine, ὀνόματα[Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. of sex in plants, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄρρενος τοῖς θήλεσι βοήθεια[Refs 4th c.BC+]:—but also, coarse, tough, γογγυλίς [Refs]ἀρρέντερος (compare θηλύτερος), κὰ τὠρρέντερον γένος in the male line, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
5. adverb ἀρρένως[Refs 4th c.BC+]; cf. Sanskrit ṛ[snull]abhás 'bull', Avest. aršan- 'man'.)
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