ἄῤῥην
árrhēn · G730 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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male, man
The male of any living creature
ExamplesMatthew 19:4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,
Mark 10:6 “But from the beginning of creation, God CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE.
Romans 1:27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
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firstborn son, firstborn male
(An idiom, literally: male that opens the womb, and closely related in meaning to πρωτότοκος, ‘firstborn,’) The first male offspring of a female
ExamplesLuke 2:23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “EVERY FIRSTBORN MALE THAT OPENS THE WOMB SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE LORD”),
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διανοίγωto open 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐκκαίωto be inflamed with passion 1
- κατεργάζομαιto work out, to produce 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τίκτωto give birth, to bear 1
Second object ofSecond object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 2
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- οὐnot 1
- ἅγιοςholy 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- זָכָר zâkâr · H2145 · male, man
- Greek ἄῤῥην and Hebrew זָכָר both denote biological maleness, with ἄῤῥην serving as the standard LXX rendering of זָכָר across contexts distinguishing male from female (Genesis 1:27, Leviticus 12:2, etc.), representing direct translation equivalence for the core concept of masculine sex.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Firstborn son, firstborn male10.45
- In Luke 2:23, quoting the Law, it is written that “every firstborn male (árren) that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord,” naming the specific firstborn-son requirement of consecration.
- Male, man79.102
- In Matthew 19:4, Jesus asks, “have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male (árren) and female,” naming the general biological sex rather than any birth-order distinction.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see ἄρσην. G730 — ἄρσην , ἄρσενος, ὁ, ἄρσεν, τό, also (according to R G in Rev 12:5, Rev…
G730 — ἄρσην
, ἄρσενος, ὁ, ἄρσεν, τό, also (according to R G in Rev 12:5, Rev 12:13, and in many editions, that of Tischendorf included, in Rom 1:27a; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. i., p. 78; (Winer's Grammar, 22)) ἄρρην, ἀρρενος, ὁ, ἀρρεν, τό (from Homer down), male: Mt 19:4; Mk 10:6; Lk 2:23; Rom 1:27; Gal 3:28; Rev 12:5, Rev 12:13 (where Lachmann reads ἀρσεναν; on which Alex. form of the accusative cf. Winers Grammar, 48 (47f); 66 (64); Mullach, p. 22 (cf. p. 162); Buttmann, 13 (12); (Sophocles Lexicon, Introduction, p. 36; Tdf. Proleg., p. 118; Müller's note on the Epistle of Barnabas 6, 2 [ET], p. 158; WHs Appendix, p. 157 L Scrivener, Collation etc., p. liv.)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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