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Ἄνθρωπος is a common Greek noun for a human being or person. Depending on number, grammar, and referent, it may denote an individual, people generally, a male person, humanity, Adam, Christ in His true humanity, or the title "Son of Man" as part of a larger phrase.
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Ἄνθρωπος is a common Greek noun for a human being or person. Depending on number, grammar, and referent, it may denote an individual, people generally, a male person, humanity, Adam, Christ in His true humanity, or the title "Son of Man" as part of a larger phrase.
The BSB source-word alignment has 551 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Man (131), men (85), of Man (79), a man (60), . . . (37).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 4:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (115), Luke (95), John (60), Mark (56).
This entry includes 10 verse guides that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Ἄνθρωπος is a common Greek noun for a human being or person. Depending on number, grammar, and referent, it may denote an individual, people generally, a male person, humanity, Adam, Christ in His true humanity, or the title "Son of Man" as part of a larger phrase. The noun identifies the human referent; the sentence supplies the theological claim.
Matthew 4:4 speaks of human dependence on God's word. Romans 5:12-19 uses one man and all people within Paul's Adam and Christ comparison. First Corinthians 15:21-22 joins death through a man to resurrection through a man. First Timothy 2:5 locates mediation in Christ Jesus' authentic humanity within a confession that also affirms one God. John 19:5 records Pilate presenting Jesus in public humiliation. These passages can support teaching about dependence, sin, judgment, resurrection, mediation, and Christ's humanity, but G444 alone does not prove a complete doctrine of humanity or determine the referent without context.
The local Greek artifact currently counts about 550 uses of G444. The noun can identify one person, people as a group, humanity, a contextually male person, Adam, Christ as man, or the human term within the title Son of Man.
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Jesus answers temptation by citing Deuteronomy: human life is not sustained by bread alone but by every word from God's mouth. The noun names the human subject; the quotation supplies the claim about dependence.
When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
Pilate presents Jesus in the crown of thorns and purple robe with the words, 'Here is the man.' The noun identifies Jesus in public humiliation; any wider Johannine significance must remain governed by the passion narrative.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Paul introduces the one-man comparison through which sin and death entered and then develops Adam's trespass and Christ's righteous act through verse 19. The noun participates in a representative contrast defined by the whole paragraph.
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
Paul sets death through a man beside resurrection through a man and immediately identifies the corporate comparison as all in Adam and all in Christ. The verse affirms Christ's true humanity within a resurrection argument.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
The confession names one God and one mediator between God and humanity, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom. The noun supports Christ's true humanity but does not imply that He is merely human.
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Greek word. a human
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 559 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 9 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
ἄνθρωπος is built from these roots:
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
G444 is a common noun whose theological importance depends on its referent and sentence. Matthew 4:4 uses it for the human being dependent on God's word. Romans 5:12-19 and First Corinthians 15:21-22 place man-language inside carefully developed Adam and Christ comparisons. First Timothy 2:5 names the one mediator as the man Christ Jesus, affirming true humanity without reducing Christ to mere humanity.
Elsewhere the noun may identify people generally, one individual, a contextually male person, or the human term within the title Son of Man. Teachers should neither force every use into a male-only claim nor flatten explicit male and representative references into abstraction. Grammar, context, and the identity of the referent must carry the conclusion.
Matt.4.4
G444 can be singular or plural, articular or anarthrous, vocative, generic, individual, representative, or contextually male. It also appears within the title Son of Man. The local artifact's count of about 550 is a qualified project total. Article, number, modifiers, predicate, and discourse identify the referent more reliably than a single fixed English gloss.
The Old Testament provides the creation, Adam, mortality, and human-dependence settings cited or developed by the New Testament passages. Those canonical links should be traced through explicit quotation and argument, especially Matthew 4 and Romans 5, rather than by assuming that every G444 occurrence invokes the whole biblical theology of humanity.
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