μακράν
makrán · G3112 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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far, at a distance, some distance away, far away
A position at a relatively great distance from another position
ExamplesMatthew 8:30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at a distance from them.
Mark 12:34 When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And then, no one dared any longer to question Him.
Luke 7:6 Now Jesus started on His way with them; but already, when He was not yet far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, “Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to enter under my roof;
In the other Testament 2 words
- רָחוֹק râchôwq · H7350 · far, distant, distance
- Hebrew רָחוֹק denotes spatial or temporal distance with broad application (far off, long ago, remote space); Greek μακράν functions as its direct equivalent for physical/figurative distance, particularly in LXX renderings where Hebrew distance concepts carry into Greek.
- רָחַק râchaq · H7368 · to be far, to go far, to stay far
- Greek adverb μακράν denotes spatial or figurative distance as a state or position ('at a distance'), while Hebrew verb רָחַק expresses the dynamic action of distancing, removing, or withdrawing ('be/go/put far'), making them natural translation equivalents across the static/dynamic aspectual distinction inherent to their respective parts of speech.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Far, at a distance, some distance away, far away83.30
- This lexeme describes spatial or relational distance. Acts 17:27 states that people would seek God, “though He is not far from each one of us.”
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (properly, feminine accusative of the adjective μακρός, namely, ὁδόν, a long way (Winers…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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