phoneuo denotes killing prohibited in the commandments and charged against those who killed righteous people.

The verb is used for the act forbidden among the commandments and for concrete accusations that people killed prophets or a righteous person. Its forms occur both in prohibitions and in statements describing perpetrators of such killing.

1. Prohibited killing and acts charged against perpetrators · dominant

   In Matthew 5:21, Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9, and James 2:11, the forms stand among commandments that prohibit the act. The same verb describes those who killed the prophets in Matthew 23:31 and the righteous person in James 5:6; in James 4:2 it is set alongside envy, quarrelling, and fighting.

   Matthew 5:21Matthew 19:18Mark 10:19Luke 18:20Romans 13:9James 5:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB uses "murder" in command prohibitions and in accusations of completed acts, including the killing of prophets and a righteous person. These renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than isolating every contribution of the Greek form.