Quick Definition
an enslaver, a kidnapper
Strong's Definition
an enslaver (as bringing men to his feet)
Derivation: from a derivative of a compound of G435 (ἀνήρ) and G4228 (πούς);
KJV Usage: menstealer
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνδραποδιστής, 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: 1Ti_1:10. (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Isocrates, Lysias, Polybius)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνδραποδιστής andrapodistēs 1x
a man-stealer, kidnapper, 1Ti_1:10
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀνδραποδιστής , -οῦ , ὁ
( < ἀνδράποδον , a slave , captured in war),
a slave-dealer, kidnapper: 1Ti_1:10 ( v. MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνδραποδιστής [page 40]
For the original noun cf. BGU IV. 1059 .9 (Aug.) ταξαμένη τὸ τέλος εἰς τὰ ἀ ., having paid the slave-duty, and Syll 825 .2 (iv/B.C.) ὅρος ἐργαστηρίου καὶ ἀνδραπόδων πεπραμένων ἐπὶ λύσει : workshop and slaves attached to it, sold ΰ rιmιrι (Michel). OGIS 218 .62, .110 (iii/B.C.) has ἀνδράποδα in a catalogue of property, ib. 773 .4 (iv/iii B.C.) τῶν ἀ . [τ ]ῶν ἀποδράντων , also ib. 629 .22 (A.D. 137) ex suppl. It also occurs in a psephism of Apamea (or a neighbouring town) of the reign of Augustus : ἀνδράποδα δὲ καὶ τετράποδα καὶ λοιπὰ ζῷα ὁμοίως πωλείσθω . This last combination reminds us of the etymology of the word, which is merely an analogy-formation from τετράποδα , with which it is so often associated just as electrocute is made out of execute , to take a modern instance of a common resource of language. The word, which was normally plural (sing. in P Cattaoui v. 16 = Chrest. II. p. 423, ii/A.D.), was never an ordinary word for slave : it was too brutally obvious a reminder of the principle which made quadruped and human chattels differ only in the number of their legs. The derivative ἀνδραποδίζω , kidnap supplied an agent noun with the like odious meaning, which alone appears in NT ( 1Ti_1:10 ). See also Philo de Spec. Leg. IV. 13 (p. 338 M.) κλέπτης δέ τίς ἐστι καὶ ὁ ἀνδραποδιστής , ἀλλὰ τοῦ πάντων ἀρίστου , ὅσα ἐπὶ γῆς εἶναι συμβέβηκεν .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνδραποδιστής [Etym: from ἀνδραποδίζω] "a slave-dealer, kidnapper", Ar. , Plat. ; ἀνδρ. ἑαυτοῦ "one who sells his" own "independence", Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀνδραποδιστής, -οῦ, ὁ
(ἀνδράποδον, a slave, captured in war)
a slave-dealer, kidnapper: 1Ti.1:10 (see MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)