Murderer

Usually translated “murderers” and “murderer”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• murderers 3
• a murderer 3
• to murderers 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 3
• Revelation 2
• Matthew 1
• 1 Peter 1

4 books in all.

• Murderer (anthrōpoktonos)
• Matricide (mētralōas)
• Patricide (patralōas)
• Murderer (androphonos)

• Acts 3:14But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
• Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
• 1 Peter 4:15But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
• Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Revelation 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “murderer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.