Word

μονόφθαλμος

monóphthalmos · G3442 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. one-eyed, blind in one eye

    Pertaining to one who has only one eye with which he can see (in other words, one who is blind in one eye)

    Examples

    Matthew 18:9 “And if your eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fiery hell.

    Mark 9:47 “And if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell,

How it’s used

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Semantic domains 1 entry
One-eyed, blind in one eye24.39
This sense denotes a person lacking sight in one eye. Mark 9:47 instructs, “If your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell.”
Word family 6 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μονόφθαλμον (μόνος, ὀφθαλμός) (Vulg.luscus, Mk 9:47), deprived of one eye, having one…
μονόφθαλμον (μόνος, ὀφθαλμός) (Vulg.luscus, Mk 9:47), deprived of one eye, having one eye: Mt 18:9; Mk 9:47. (Herodotus, Apollod., Strabo, (Diogenes Laërtius, others; (Lob. ad Phryn., p. 136; Bekker Anecd. 1:280; Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 209; Winer's Grammar, 24).)

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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