COMPANION BIBLE. APPENDIX 123.  

THE SYNONYMOUS WORDS FOR "MAN", "MEN".



Sometimes the word "man" is added in translating the Masc. Gender of Adjectives or Nouns, in which case it is not one of the words given below.

  1. anthropos = an individual of the Genus Homo; a human being as distinct from animals.  See Ap. 98. XVI, for "the Son of man".

  2. aner = an adult male person.  Lat. vir, an honourable title (as distinct from mere "man", No. 1);  hence, used of a husband.

  3. tis = some one, a certain one.

  4. arren = a male; of the male sex.

  5. arsen = The same as No. 4; being the old Ionic form, as No. 4 is the later Attic form.

  6. teleios = one who has reached maturity as to age or qualification, or by initiation.  Rendered  "man" in 1Cor. 14:20.  See note there; also Ap. 125. 1, and cp. 1Cor. 2:6.
     

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