Word Study · Strong's G3376 · Greek
μήν
men
mane
Strong's 1890 spelling: mḗn
“a month”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a month
Rendered in the KJV as
month.
- 18occurrencesin the New Testament
- 5 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 18 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- μῆνας14
- μῆνα2
- μὴν1
- μηνὶ1
How it is rendered · 3
- months13
- month4
- for months1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural14
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- N-APM · 14
- N-ASM · 2
- N-DSM · 1
- N-NSM · 1
All 18, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Luke5 occurrences
- Luke 1:24μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralAfter these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,here: months
- Luke 1:26μηνὶmēninoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singularIn the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,here: month
- Luke 1:36μὴνmēnnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singularLook, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.here: month
- Luke 1:56μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralMary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.here: months
- Luke 4:25μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralBut I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.here: months
Acts5 occurrences
- Acts 7:20μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralAt that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.here: months
- Acts 18:11μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralSo Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.here: months
- Acts 19:8μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralThen Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.here: months
- Acts 20:3μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralwhere he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.here: months
- Acts 28:11μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralAfter three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.here: months
Galatians1 occurrence
Revelation6 occurrences
- Revelation 9:5μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralThe locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.here: months
- Revelation 9:10μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralThey had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.here: for months
- Revelation 9:15μῆναmēnanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singularSo the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.here: month
- Revelation 11:2μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralBut exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.here: months
- Revelation 13:5μῆναςmēnasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluralThe beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.here: months
- Revelation 22:2μῆναmēnanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulardown the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.here: month
Same headword in Strong's