Bible Lexicons

* ἀνθρωποκτόνος , -ον

(< κτείνω , to kill),

a murderer, manslayer (Eur.; v. MM, VGT, s.v.): John 8:44, 1 John 3:16.†

SYN.: φονεύς G5406, ἀνδροφόνος G409 (v. Tr., Syn, § 83).

ἀνθρωποκτόνος, for which only Euripides is cited, will be one of the words Hellenistic prose has taken over from poetical vocabulary. Murray gives the lines thus (1ph. Taur. 389)—

_{This land of murderers to its god hath given
Its own lust; evil dwelleth not in heaven.}