Quick Definition
ἀνδραποδιστής, οῦ, ὁ n.m. 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
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -οῦ | ἀνδρίζομαι + πούς
57.187 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Sell, Buy, Price
slave dealer, kidnapper one who sells persons as slaves, including one who kidnaps persons and sells them
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνδραποδιστής, -ov, 6, (fr. ἀνδραποδίζω, and this fr. τὸ avdparodov —fr. ἀνήρ and ποῦς ---ἃ 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: 1 Tim. i. 10. (Arstph., Xen., Plat., Dem., Isocer., Lys., Polyb.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνδραποδιστής andrapodistēs 1x
a man-stealer, kidnapper, 1 Tim. 1:10*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀνδραποδιστής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< ἀνδράποδον, a slave, captured in war),
a slave-dealer, kidnapper: I Ti 1:10 (v. MM, VGT, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνδραποδιστής. For the original noun cf. BGU IV. τοσοῦ (Aug.) ταξαμένη τὸ τέλος els τὰ ἀ., “having paid the slave-duty,” and Sy// 8255 (iv/B.C.) ὅρος ἐργαστηρίου kal ἀνδραπόδων πεπραμένων ἔπὶ λύσει : workshop and slaves attached to it, sold “ἃ réméré” (Michel). OGZS 218%, 110 (iii/B.c.) has ἀνδράποδα in a catalogue of property, 76. 773% (iv/ili B.C.) τῶν ἀ. [τ]ῶν ἀποδράντων, also 16. 6297" (A.D. 137) ex suppl. Tt also 40 ἀνέγκλητος 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 analogyformation from τετράποδα, with which it is so often associated —Jjust as e/ectrocute is made out of execzz/e, to take a modern instance of a common resource of language. The word, which was normally plural (sing. in P Cattaoui ¥- 16 = Chres¢, II. p. 423, ii/A.D.), was never an ordinary word for s/ave: 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 (1 Tim 119). Seealso Philo de Spec. Leg. IV. 13 (p. 338 M.) κλέπτης δέ τίς ἐστι Kal ὁ ἀνδραποδιστής, ἀλλὰ τοῦ πάντων ἀρίστου, ὅσα ἐπὶ γῆς εἶναι συμβέβηκεν.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀνδραποδιστής (andrapodistēs) — slave-trader. ἀνδραποδ-ιστής, οῦ, ὁ, slave-dealer or kidnapper, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; coupled with ἱερόσυλοι, τοιχωρύχοι, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+] one who sells his own independence, [Refs 5th c.BC+]