Greek noun (masculine) · G3376
μήν
menmane
month
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mḗn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3376is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3376
a month
The King James renders it: month.
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
men is rendered "month". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Six of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:24After these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
After these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
Luke 1:24μῆνας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's eighteen 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
- months13
- month4
- for months1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- μῆνας14
- μῆνα2
- μὴν1
- μηνὶ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural14N-APM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Luke
five uses
After these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
- μηνὶmeninoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: month
Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
- μὴνmennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: month
Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
But 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.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
Acts
five uses
At 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.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
Then Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
where 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.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
Galatians
one use
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
James
one use
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
Revelation
six uses
The 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.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: for months
So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
- μῆναmenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: month
But 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.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
- μῆναςmenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: months
down 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.
- μῆναmenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: month
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.