"human, belonging to man, 1 Cor. 2:4, 13; 4:3; 10:13; Jas. 3:7; 1 Pet. 2:13; suited to man, Rom. 6:19*"
Definition and meaning
human, belonging to man, 1 Cor. 2:4, 13; 4:3; 10:13; Jas. 3:7; 1 Pet. 2:13; suited to man, Rom. 6:19*
In the original Greek the word is written: ἀνθρώπινος
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of anthropinos (G442) across the King James Bible.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
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Common questions
Strong's G442 (anthropinos) is a Greek word that means: human, belonging to man, 1 Cor. 2:4, 13; 4:3; 10:13; Jas. 3:7; 1 Pet. 2:13; suited to man, Rom. 6:19* It appears 6 times in the King James Bible.
The word anthropinos (G442) appears 6 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G442 is anthropinos, a Greek word defined as: human, belonging to man, 1 Cor. 2:4, 13; 4:3; 10:13; Jas. 3:7; 1 Pet. 2:13; suited to man, Rom. 6:19*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
anthropinos is a Greek word found in the New Testament.