Greek noun (masculine) · G3175
μεγιστᾶνες
megistanesmeg-is-tan'-es
great man
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: megistânes
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3175is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3175
grandees
The King James renders it: great men, lords.
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
megistanes is rendered "great man". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 6:21On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
Mark 6:21μεγιστᾶσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- great ones2
- great men1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μέγιστος | megistos | greatest | Usesnot recorded |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings 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
- μεγιστᾶνες2
- μεγιστᾶσιν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2N-NPM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
Mark
one use
On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- μεγιστᾶσινmegistasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: great men
Revelation
two uses
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- μεγιστᾶνεςmegistanesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: great ones
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
- μεγιστᾶνεςmegistanesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: great ones
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.