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μεγαλωσύνη

megalōsýnē · G3172 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. prominence, greatness, importance

    A state of greatness or importance

    Examples

    Jude 1:25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen.

  2. the Majesty, the Majestic One

    (A title for God, literally: majesty) One who is characterized by majesty and greatness

    Examples

    Hebrews 1:3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

    Hebrews 8:1 Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
גְּדוּלָה gᵉdûwlâh · H1420 · greatness, great thing
Greek μεγαλωσύνη (greatness/majesty, especially divine majesty) directly translates Hebrew גְּדוּלָה (greatness/majesty) in LXX contexts referring to God's exalted dignity and sovereign power.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Prominence, greatness, importance87.21
This lexeme denotes the greatness or majesty befitting a supreme position. Hebrews 1:3 describes the Son as having “sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.”
Word family 13 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μείζων meízōn · G3187 · larger · 0×μέγας mégas · G3173 · much, big, great · 243×μεγαλύνω megalýnō · G3170 · to make big, to make large, to enlarge · 8×μεγαλειότης megaleiótēs · G3168 · prominence, greatness, importance · 3×μεγαλωσύνηmegalōsýnē · G3172μεγιστᾶνες megistânes · G3175 · very important person, great person · 3×μεγαλαυχέω megalauchéō · G3166 · to boast · 1×μεγαλεῖος megaleîos · G3167 · mighty act, great deed · 1×μεγαλοπρεπής megaloprepḗs · G3169 · very wonderful, sublime · 1×μεγάλως megálōs · G3171 · great, greatly, greatness · 1×μέγεθος mégethos · G3174 · great, greatly, greatness · 1×μέγιστος mégistos · G3176 · greatest or very great · 0×μεῖζον meîzon · G3185 · in greater degree · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μεγαλωσύνης, ἡ, only in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings (cf. Winers Grammar, 26, 95…
μεγαλωσύνης, ἡ, only in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings (cf. Winers Grammar, 26, 95 (90); Buttmann, 73, and see ἀγαθωσύνη) (μέγας), the Sept. for גֹּדֶל and גְּדוּלָה; majesty: of the majesty of God, Heb 1:3; Heb 8:1; Jude 1:25 (so 2 Sam 7:23; Ps 144:3, Ps 144:6 (Ps 145:3, Ps 145:6); Wis. 18:24; Sir. 2:18, and often).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Supernatural Beings2 occurrencesHigh Status or Rank [including persons of high status]1 occurrence

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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