μέγεθος
mégethos · G3174 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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great, greatly, greatness, to a great degree, intense, terrible
The upper range of a scale of extent, with the possible implication of importance in relevant contexts
ExamplesEphesians 1:19 and what is the boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 2 words
- גֹּדֶל gôdel · H1433 · greatness
- Hebrew noun denoting greatness or magnitude, direct translation equivalent used in LXX contexts for abstract greatness
- גְּדוּלָה gᵉdûwlâh · H1420 · greatness, great thing
- Hebrew feminine noun for greatness/majesty, commonly rendered by Greek μέγεθος and cognates in LXX to express magnitude and splendor
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Great, greatly, greatness, to a great degree, intense, terrible78.2
- This lexeme denotes greatness or magnitude in the abstract. Ephesians 1:19 speaks of “the boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe.”
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μεγέθους, τό (μέγας) (from Homer down), greatness: Eph 1:19.
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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