μήν mēn

Greek word for “month” · Strong’s G3376 · used 18 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

μήν genitive, μηνός, ὁ; a month: 1:36, 56 4:25, 18:11 19:8 20:3 28:11, 9:15 11:2 13:5 22:2; pl., of the festival of the new moon (cf.).†;

How it is translated

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

• months 14
• month 4

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 1 (4), Revelation 9 (3), Luke 4 (1), Acts 7 (1), Acts 18 (1), Acts 19 (1), Acts 20 (1), Acts 28 (1), Galatians 4 (1), James 5 (1)

Forms

• μῆνας 14
• μῆνα 2
• μηνὶ 1
• μὴν 1

Words used with it

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

• τρεῖς treis “Three” 7
• ἐνιαυτός eniautos “year” 4
• ἕξ hex “six” 3
• πέντε pente “five” 3
• σκορπίος skorpios “scorpion” 2
• Ἐλισάβετ Elisabet “Elizabeth” 2
• ἕκτος hektos “sixth” 2
• συλλαμβάνω sullambanō “to seize/conceive/help” 2
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 4
• τεσσαράκοντα tessarakonta “forty” 2
• ἀνάγω anagō “to lead” 2
• Ἡλίας Hēlias “Elijah” 2

Key verses

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

• Luke 1:26 — And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
• Luke 4:25 — But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was…
• Acts 7:20 — In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
• Acts 19:8 — And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
• Acts 20:3 — And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
• James 5:17 — Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years…
• Revelation 9:5 — And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion,…
• Revelation 9:10 — And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
• Revelation 9:15 — And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
• Revelation 11:2 — But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty…
• Revelation 13:5 — And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
• 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.