Greek noun (masculine) · G3316
μεσίτης
mesitesmes-ee'-tace
mediator
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mesítēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3316is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3316
a go-between, i.e. (simply) an internunciator, or (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor)
The King James renders it: mediator.
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
mesites is rendered "mediator". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Galatians 3:19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
Galatians 3:19μεσίτου
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- mediator4
- a mediator1
- of a mediator1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| μεσιτεύω | mesiteuo | to guarantee | Uses1 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- μεσίτης4
- μεσίτῃ1
- μεσίτου1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular4N-NSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
Galatians
two uses
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
- μεσίτουmesitounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of a mediator
A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.
- μεσίτηςmesitesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a mediator
1 Timothy
one use
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- μεσίτηςmesitesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: mediator
Hebrews
three uses
Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
- μεσίτηςmesitesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: mediator
Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
- μεσίτηςmesitesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: mediator
to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- μεσίτῃmesitenoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: mediator
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
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.