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Strong's #435: aner (pronounced an'-ayr)

a primary word (compare 444); a man (properly as an individual male):--fellow, husband, man, sir.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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anēr

1) with reference to sex

1a) of a male

1b) of a husband

1c) of a betrothed or future husband

2) with reference to age, and to distinguish an adult man from a boy

3) any male

4) used generically of a group of both men and women

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: a primary word compare G444

Citing in TDNT: 1:360, 59




Usage:

This word is used 215 times:

1 Timothy 3:2: "must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober,"
1 Timothy 3:12: "Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and"
1 Timothy 5:9: "old, having been the wife of one man,"
Titus 1:6: "If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful"
Titus 2:5: "good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God"
James 1:8: "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."
James 1:12: "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried,"
James 1:20: "For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."
James 1:23: "a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face"
James 2:2: "unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel,"
James 3:2: "word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the"
1 Peter 3:1: "ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the"
1 Peter 3:5: "themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:"
1 Peter 3:7: "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the"
Revelation 21:2: "a bride adorned for her husband."









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