μένω menō

Greek word for “to stay” · Strong’s G3306 · used 118 times in 102 verses

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Meaning

μένω; to stay, abide, remain.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for menō in context, with how often each is used:

• abides 23
• abiding 15
• shall abide 8
• do remain 7
• abide 7
• stayed 7
• remained 6
• do abide 5
• remain 5
• remains 4
• should abide 4
• may remain 3

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 John 2 (8), John 15 (7), 1 John 3 (6), 1 Corinthians 7 (5), John 1 (4), 1 John 4 (4), John 12 (3), John 14 (3), John 6 (2), John 8 (2)

Forms

• μένει 28
• ἔμεινεν 9
• μένων 7
• μένετε 6
• μεῖναι 6
• μείνῃ 6
• μείνατε 5
• μένουσαν 5
• μένειν 5
• μενέτω 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with menō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἐάν ean “if” 18
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 11
• ἄν an “if” 9
• ἕως heōs “until” 8
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 11
• αἰών aiōn “an age” 7
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 10
• ἀγάπη agapē “love” 7
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 9
• εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai “to enter” 7
• γινώσκω ginōskō “to know” 7
• ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai “to go out” 7

Key verses

The verses using menō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• John 3:36 — He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
• John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the…
• John 8:31 — Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
• John 15:4 — Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
• John 15:16 — Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye…
• Acts 16:15 — And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.…
• 1 Corinthians 13:13 — And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
• 2 Corinthians 3:14 — But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
• 1 John 2:19 — They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be…
• 1 John 2:27 — But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,…
• 1 John 3:14 — We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• 1 John 3:17 — But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.