Phonos denotes killing presented as a threat, criminal act, inner evil, or wrongdoing from which people do not repent.

The attested use presents killing as hostile violence or wrongdoing: it is threatened against disciples, charged alongside insurrection, attributed to rebels, listed among evils from the human heart, and named among acts from which people do not repent. Hebrews 11:37 also uses the singular form in the report that people were killed with the sword.

1. Killing as violent wrongdoing · dominant

   In Luke 23:19 the singular accusative form occurs in the stated reason a man had been imprisoned, alongside an insurrection; the APB renders the clause “for murder.” Mark 15:7 similarly places the singular with rebels who had done it in an uprising, while Mark 7:21 and Matthew 15:19 use the plural nominative among evils said to come from within the human heart. Acts 9:1 places the singular genitive in Saul's threats against the disciples, and Revelation 9:21 includes the plural genitive among acts from which people did not repent.

   Luke 23:19Mark 15:7Mark 7:21Matthew 15:19Acts 9:1Revelation 9:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the term with “murder” or “murders,” including threats, criminal charges, acts by rebels, inner evils, and unrepented acts. In Hebrews 11:37 it instead renders the clause “they were killed with the sword”; This variation does not establish a separate lexical sense.