Word

μόνος

mónos · G3441 · Greek · 112 occurrences

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Meanings

only one, alone

The only entity in a class

Examples
Luke 24:18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You possibly the only one living near Jerusalem who does not know about the things that happened here in these days?”
John 5:44 “How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?
John 8:16 “But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.
alone, all by oneself

The only item of a class in a place

Examples
Matthew 14:23 After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.
Mark 4:10 As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve disciples, began asking Him about the parables.
Mark 6:47 When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land.
only, alone, except

A particle marking a constituent as representing a limited number of entities

Examples
Matthew 4:4 But He answered and said, “It is written: ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.’”
Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.’”
Matthew 12:4 how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

How it’s used In 6 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔχωto have 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

δυνάστηςofficial 1
ἀδελφόςbrother 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1

Second object ofSecond object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 2 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
ὀθόνιονlinen cloth 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

κατάaccording to, against, down 4

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

בַּד bad · H905 · linen, apart, besides: בַּד (bad, H905) denotes solitude, separation, or exclusivity ('alone, only, apart'), semantically equivalent to μόνος (mónos, G3441) 'sole, single, remaining'; the Hebrew term's extended senses (branch, staff) are metaphorical extensions from the core 'separate/isolated' root, not distinct semantic territory.
בָּדָד bâdâd · H910 · alone, isolated, apart: μόνος (mónos, G3441) and בָּדָד (bâdâd, H910) share the core semantic field of singleness/solitude: μόνος emphasizes 'sole/only' (often in quantitative contexts: 'the only one'), while בָּדָד emphasizes 'alone/isolated' (often in spatial or relational contexts: 'dwelling apart'), but both denote the state of being without others and regularly align in LXX translations of solitary/isolated conditions.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Only one, alone58.50: Matthew 4:10 has Jesus answer the tempter, “YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.”
Alone, all by oneself58.51: Matthew 14:23 recounts that Jesus “went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.”

Word family 6 words

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

μόνοςmónos · G3441μόνον mónon · G3440 · only, merely · 67×μονογενής monogenḗs · G3439 · unique, only · 9×μονόφθαλμος monóphthalmos · G3442 · one-eyed, blind in one eye · 2×μονόω monóō · G3443 · to be without a family, to be without relatives · 1×καταμόνας katamónas · G2651 · according to sole places, i.e. separately · 0×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μόνη, μόνον, the Sept. chiefly for לְבַד (from Homer down); 1. an adjective, alone…

μόνη, μόνον, the Sept. chiefly for לְבַד (from Homer down);
1. an adjective, alone (without a companion);
a. with verbs: εἶναι, ἑυρίσκεσθαι, καταλείπεσθαι, etc., Mt 14:23; Mk 6:47; Lk 9:36; Jn 8:9; 1 Thess 3:1; added to the pronouns ἐγώ, αὐτός, οὐ, etc.: Mt 18:15; Mk 9:2; Lk 24:18; Rom 11:3; Rom 16:4, etc.
b. it is joined with its noun to other verbs also, so that what is predicated may be declared to apply to some one person alone (cf. Winer's Grammar, 131 (124) note): Mt 4:10; Lk 4:8; Lk 24:12 (T omits; L Tr brackets WH reject the verse); Jn 6:22; Heb 9:7; 2 Tim 4:11; with a neg. followed by ἀλλά, Mt 4:4. ὁ μόνος Θεός, he who alone is God: Jn 5:44; Jn 17:3; Rom 16:27; ὁ μόνος δεσπότης, Jude 1:4. οὐκ... εἰ μή μόνος: Mt 12:4; Mt 17:8; Mt 24:36; Lk 6:4; οὐδείς... εἰ μή μόνος, Phm 4:15. equivalent to forsaken, destitute of help, Lk 10:40; Jn 8:16; Jn 16:32, (Wis. 10:1).
2. Neuter μόνον as adverb, alone, only, merely: added to the object, Mt 5:47; Mt 10:42; Acts 18:25; Gal 3:2; to the genitive Rom 3:29 (here WH marginal reading μόνων); referring to an action expressed by a verb, Mt 9:21; Mt 14:36; Mk 5:36; Lk 8:50; Acts 8:16; 1 Cor 15:19; Gal 1:23; Gal 2:10. μόνον μή, Gal 5:13; οὐ (μή) μόνον, Gal 4:18; Jas 1:22; Jas 2:24; followed by ἀλλά, Acts 19:26 (L ἀλλά καί; cf. Winers Grammar, 498 (464); Buttmann, 370 (317)); by ἀλλά πολλῷ μᾶλλον, Phm 2:12; by ἀλλά καί, Mt 21:21; Jn 5:18; Jn 11:52; Jn 12:9; Jn 13:9; Jn 17:20; Acts 19:26 (Lachmann (see as above, especially Buttmann)); Acts 21:13; Acts 26:29; ; Rom 1:32; Rom 4:12, Rom 4:16, Rom 4:23; 2 Cor 7:7, etc.; οὐ μόνον δέ ἀλλά καί: Acts 19:27; and often by Paul (cf. Winer's Grammar, 583 (543)), Rom 5:3, Rom 5:11; Rom 8:23; Rom 9:10; 2 Cor 7:7; 2 Cor 8:19; Phm 2:27 (here οὐ δέ μόνον etc.); 1 Tim 5:13; (2 Tim 4:8. κατά μόνας (namely, χώρας), see καταμόνας).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Distinctive, Unique115 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