μύριοι
mýrioi · G3463 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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ten thousand
Cardinal number, where there are ten thousand instances of a countable entity
ExamplesMatthew 18:24 “And when he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.
1 Corinthians 14:19 nevertheless, in church I prefer to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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very very many, innumerable, countless
Pertaining to what is extremely numerous
Examples1 Corinthians 4:15 For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Ten thousand60.45
- This sense denotes the specific number ten thousand. Matthew 18:24 describes how, as a king settled his accounts, “one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.”
- Very very many, innumerable, countless60.7
- This sense denotes an extremely large, uncountable quantity used hyperbolically. 1 Corinthians 4:15 tells the Corinthians that even if they were “to have countless tutors in Christ,” they would not have many fathers.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μύρια, μυριον (from Homer down); 1. innumerable, countless (A. V. ten thousand): 1 Cor…
1. innumerable, countless (A. V. ten thousand): 1 Cor 4:15; 1 Cor 14:19.
2. with the accent drawn back (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprchl. § 70 Anm. 15, vol. 1:278; Passow, under the word at the end; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, III.)), μύριοι, μύριαι, μύρια, ten thousand: Mt 18:24.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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