μόγις
mógis · G3425 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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barely, just, scarcely, with difficulty, hardly
A degree which almost equals some point on a scale of extent, but not quite
This lexeme does not occur in the New Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- μόλις mólis · G3433 · barely, just, scarcely
- Greek adverb meaning 'with difficulty, scarcely, barely.' Extremely close in sense to μόγις, often used interchangeably in Hellenistic Greek to express the idea of something accomplished with great effort or barely achieved. Standard lexicons (BDAG, Thayer's) treat these as near-synonymous adverbs.
- δυσκόλως dyskólōs · G1423 · difficult, hard, with difficulty
- Greek adverb meaning 'with difficulty, hardly.' Used in the New Testament to express difficulty (e.g., in contexts about entering the kingdom of God). While μόγις emphasizes the arduousness of the action itself, δυσκόλως (glossed 'impracticably') often focuses on the difficulty inherent in the circumstances or conditions—describing something that is nearly impossible or impractical to accomplish.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (μόγος toil), from Homer down, hardly, with difficulty: Lk 9:39 (yet WH Tr marginal…
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