Lexical Summary andrapodistēs: a slave dealer Original Word: ἀνδραποδιστήςTransliteration: andrapodistēs Phonetic Spelling: (an-drap-od-is-tace') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a slave dealer Meaning: a slave dealer Strong's Concordance kidnapper, slave trader.From a derivative of a compound of aner and pous; an enslaver (as bringing men to his feet) -- menstealer. see GREEK aner see GREEK pous Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 405: ἀνδραποδιστήςἀνδραποδιστής, ἀνδραποδιστου, ὁ (from ἀνδραποδίζω, and this from τό ἀνδράποδον — from ἀνήρ and πούς — a slave, a man taken in war and sold into slavery), a slave-dealer, kidnapper, man-stealer, i. e. as well one who unjustly reduces free men to slavery, as one who steals the slaves of others and sells them: 1 Timothy 1:10. (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Isocrates, Lysias, Polybius) |