μνᾶ
mnâ · G3414 · Greek · 9 occurrences
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Meanings
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a quantity of money, one hundred denarii
A Greek monetary unit worth one hundred denarii
ExamplesLuke 19:13 “And he called ten of his own slaves and gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with this money until I come back.’
Luke 19:16 “The first slave appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’
Luke 19:18 “The second one came, saying, ‘Your mina, master, has made five minas.’
How it’s used In 4 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
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 3
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- δέκαten 4
- πέντεfive 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
- προσεργάζομαιto make more 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἔχωto have 2
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
- αἴρωto take up, to take away, to carry 1
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
- προσεργάζομαιto make more 1
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
- מָנֶה mâneh · H4488 · mina
- Direct cross-linguistic equivalent: Greek μνᾶ is the standard rendering of Hebrew מָנֶה, both denoting the same unit of weight and currency (the mina/maneh), representing a genuine translation relationship across the Hebrew Bible and its Greek translation tradition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- A quantity of money, one hundred denarii6.81
- This sense denotes a unit of currency worth about one hundred days' wages. In the parable of the minas, Luke 19:13 records the nobleman calling his ten slaves and giving them “ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’”
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μνᾶς, ἡ, a word of Eastern origin (cf. Schrader, Keilinschriften as above with, p. 143),…
1. in the O. T. a weight, and an imaginary coin or money of account, equal to one hundred shekels: 1 Kgs 10:17, cf. 2 Chr 9:16; 2 Chr 9:2 Esdr. 2:69, (otherwise in Ezek 45:12 (cf. Bible Educator, index under the word Maneh; Schrader in Riehm under the word Mine, p. 1000f)).
2. In Attic a weight and a sum of money equal to one hundred drachmae (see δραχμή (and B. D. under the word ; especially Schrader in Riehm as above)): Lk 19:13, Lk 19:16, Lk 19:18, Lk 19:20, Lk 19:24f
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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