μέσος mesos

Greek word for “midst” · Strong’s G3319 · used 58 times in 56 verses

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Meaning

μέσος, -η, -ον; middle, in the middle or midst;

How it is translated

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

• midst 48
• middle 5
• between 2
• mid 1
• way 1
• center 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 13 (2), Matthew 18 (2), Luke 4 (2), Luke 22 (2), John 8 (2), John 20 (2), Acts 1 (2), Acts 17 (2), Acts 27 (2), Matthew 10 (1)

Forms

• μέσῳ 29
• μέσον 16
• μέσου 8
• μέσος 3
• Μέσης 1
• μέσης 1

Words used with it

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

• ἵστημι histēmi “to stand” 13
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 10
• ἀνά ana “each” 4
• ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai “to go out” 7
• ζῷον zōon “living thing” 3
• κατά kata “according to” 6
• τέσσαρες tessares “four” 3
• Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 4
• ἀκέραιος akeraios “innocent” 2
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 5
• θρόνος thronos “throne” 3
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 4

Key verses

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

• Matthew 10:16 — Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
• Matthew 18:20 — For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
• John 20:19 — Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and…
• Acts 2:22 — Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of…
• 2 Corinthians 6:17 — Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
• Philippians 2:15 — That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the…
• Revelation 1:13 — And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
• Revelation 2:1 — Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven…
• Revelation 4:6 — And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes…
• Revelation 5:6 — And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns…
• Revelation 7:17 — For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from…
• Revelation 22:2 — In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every…

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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.