noun · feminine
magdalēnas
Strong’sG3094
Magdalene
stem magdalēn-12 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Magdalene means "of Magdala," a place-name used as a descriptive title attached to a woman named Mary, identifying her as being from Magdala 1234. In the Gospels it always appears together with the name Mary, as "Mary the Magdalene" 13.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G3094 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmag-dal-ay-nay'
a female Magdalene, i.e. inhabitant of Magdala
Fromfeminine of a derivative of G3093;
King JamesMagdalene.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Magdalene, of Magdala: Μαρία (which see) ἡ MM.,
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | magdalēnas11×Μαγδαληνὴ | magdalēnais |
| object accusative | magdalēnan | magdalēnain |
| direct address vocative | magdalēnar | magdalēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | magdalēnau | magdalēnaiu |
| to, for dative | magdalēna1×Μαγδαληνῇ | magdalēnai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
magdalēna is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
magdalēnas“Magdalene”subjectnominative singular11×
Matthew 27:56en hai ate Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas tou Iakōbou kai …Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and …
Matthew 27:61ate de ekei Mariam tas Magdalēnas kai tas allosas Marias kathorōntais apenanti …Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting …
Matthew 28:1… eis henan sabbateiu, erchata Mariam tas Magdalēnas kai tas allosas Marias theōrara ton …… first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to …
Mark 15:40… theōrarōntais, en hai kai Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas Iakōbou tou mikrou …… a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the …
Mark 15:47tas de Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas Iōsētou theōrale pou …Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph …
Mark 16:1Kai diageneranteu teu sabbateu Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas tou Iakōbou kai …When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and …
Luke 8:2… ponēreiu kai astheniaiu, Marias tas kalorōntas Magdalēnas, apo hau daimoneim hepta exerchatelē,… evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone …
Luke 24:10ale de tas Magdalēnas Marias kai Iōannas kai Marias tas …It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James …
John 19:25… tas tou Klōpou kai Marias tas Magdalēnas.… the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.
John 20:1… de hena teiu sabbateiu Marias tas Magdalēnas erchotō prōi skotiau ēti arōntau eis …… while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw …
John 20:18erchotō Mariam tas Magdalēnas angelarōntas toi mathētoi hoti Horamē ton …Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples …
magdalēna“Magdalene”to, fordative singular1×
Mark 16:9… prōta sabbateu fanita prōtem Maria ta Magdalēna, para hau ekbalatelē hepta daimoneim.… risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out …