ἄνδρα (andra)

ἄνδρα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνήρ, meaning “man, husband”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 2,586 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1153: ἔνθʼ ἔρις ἄνδρα ἕκαστον ἀριστήων ὀρόθυνεν,

New Testament, John 4.17: ἀπεκρίθη ἡ γυνὴ καὶ εἶπεν [αὐτῷ] Οὐκ ἔχω ἄνδρα. λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς Καλῶς εἶπες ὅτι Ἄνδρα οὐκ ἔχω·

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum 5: … λοῦν, τὰ δὲ τὸ συμβεβηκός, πρότερον δʼ εἶναι τῇ φύσει τὴν οὐσίαν τῶν συμβεβηκότων̓, ὡς τὰ Ὁμηρικὰ ἔχει ταυτί· ἄνδρά μοι ἔννεπε Μοῦσα πολύτροπον καὶ μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά καὶ ἠέλιος δʼ ἀνόρουσε λιπών καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοις· ἡγεῖ …

All forms of ἀνήρ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.