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μῆκος

mēkos · G3372 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. length

    The measurement of length

    Examples

    Ephesians 3:18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

    Revelation 21:16 The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length, width, and height are equal.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

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
אֹרֶךְ ʼôrek · H753 · length, long life, old age
Hebrew אֹרֶךְ (ʼôrek, H753) is the direct semantic equivalent denoting physical or metaphorical length/extension, cognate to Greek μῆκος (mēkos, G3372) in Septuagint translation contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Length81.12
This sense denotes the extent of an object from one end to the other. Ephesians 3:18 prays that believers may comprehend “what is the width and length and height and depth” of the love of Christ.
Word family 10 words

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

μῆκοςmēkos · G3372μέχρι méchri · G3360 · until, to, at last · 18×μακρόθεν makróthen · G3113 · far, at a distance, some distance away · 14×μακροθυμία makrothymía · G3115 · patience · 14×μακροθυμέω makrothyméō · G3114 · to be patient, to remain patient, to wait patiently · 10×μακράν makrán · G3112 · far, at a distance, some distance away · 9×μακρός makrós · G3117 · long, long time, for some time · 5×μακροθυμώς makrothymṓs · G3116 · patiently · 1×μακροχρόνιος makrochrónios · G3118 · long, long time, for some time · 1×μηκύνω mēkýnō · G3373 · to grow · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μηκεος (μήκους), τό, from Homer down; the Sept. very often for אֹרֶך; length: Rev 21:16;…
μηκεος (μήκους), τό, from Homer down; the Sept. very often for אֹרֶך; length: Rev 21:16; τό πλάτος καί μῆκος καί βάθος καί ὕψος, language used in shadowing forth the greatness, extent, and number of the blessings received from Christ, Eph 3:18.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Long, Short, Far3 occurrences

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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