Greek adverb · G3433
μόλις
molismol'-is
hardly
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mólis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3433is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3433
with difficulty
The King James renders it: hardly, scarce(-ly), + with much work.
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
molis is rendered "hardly". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 14:18Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.
The first use
Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.
Acts 14:18μόλις
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
- with difficulty4
- hardly1
- Rarely1
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 6, 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
- μόλις6
The grammar of each form
- adverb6ADV
Acts
four uses
Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.
- μόλιςmolisadverbtagged: hardly
After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
- μόλιςmolisadverbtagged: with difficulty
After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.
- μόλιςmolisadverbtagged: With difficulty
Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
- μόλιςmolisadverbtagged: with difficulty
Romans
one use
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
- μόλιςmolisadverbtagged: Rarely
1 Peter
one use
And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
- μόλιςmolisadverbtagged: with difficulty
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.