Greek noun (feminine) · G3461
μυριάς
myriasmoo-ree'-as
myriad
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: myriás
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3461is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3461
a ten-thousand; by extension, a "myriad" or indefinite number
The King James renders it: ten thousand.
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
myrias is rendered "myriad". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 12:1In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:1μυριάδων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine 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
- myriads5
- of myriads1
- ten thousands1
- to myriads1
- twice ten thousand1
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- μυριάδων3
- μυριάδες2
- μυριάσιν2
- δισμυριάδες1
- μυριάδας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural3N-GPF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural2N-DPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural2N-NPF
- ADV + G3461=N-NPF1ADV + G3461=N-NPF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
Luke
one use
In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- μυριάδωνmuriadonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: myriads
Acts
two uses
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
- μυριάδαςmuriadasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: myriads
When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
- μυριάδεςmuriadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: myriads
Hebrews
one use
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
- μυριάσινmuriasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: to myriads
Jude
one use
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
- μυριάσινmuriasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: myriads
Revelation
four uses
Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
- μυριάδεςmuriadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: myriads
- μυριάδωνmuriadonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of myriads
And the number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.
- δισμυριάδεςdismuriadesADV + G3461=N-NPFtagged: twice ten thousand
- μυριάδωνmuriadonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: ten thousands
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.