Greek adverb · G3155
μάτην
matenmat'-ane
in vain
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mátēn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3155is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3155
folly, i.e. (adverbially) to no purpose
The King James renders it: in vain.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maten is rendered "in vain". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 15:9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
The first use
They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
Matthew 15:9μάτην
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in vain2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μάτην2
The grammar of each form
- adverb2ADV
Matthew
one use
They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
- μάτηνmatenadverbtagged: in vain
Mark
one use
They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’
- μάτηνmatenadverbtagged: In vain
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.