makran

Strong’sG3112

far away

stem makran-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

μακράν (prop. fem. acc. of μακρός, sc. ὁδόν), adv.,

[in LXX for רחק hi., רָחֹק, etc.;]

a long way, far: Lk 15:20, Ac 22:21; seq. ἀπό, Mt 8:30, Lk 7:6, Jo 21:8, Ac 17:27; id. metaph., Mk 12:34; οἱ εἰς μ., Ac 2:39 (cf. Is 2:2); metaph., οἱ ποτὲ ὄντες μ. (opp. to ἐγγύς), Eph 2:13; οἱ μ., Eph 2:17.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3112 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmak-ran'

at a distance (literally or figuratively)

Fromfeminine accusative case singular of G3117 (G3598 being implied);

King James(a-)far (off), good (great) way off.

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

μακράν,
Ionic dialect μακρήν, accusative feminine of μακρός used as adverb, far, μ. ἀνωτέρω θακῶν Refs 4th c.BC+; μ. λελειμμένος left far behind,Refs 5th c.BC+; τοὔργον οὐ μ. λέγεις the business you speak of is not far to seek, Refs 5th c.BC+: with genitive, far from, βαρβάρου χθονός Refs 5th c.BC+ to a greater distance, Refs 5th c.BC+ as far as possible, with genitive loci, Refs
2 μακρὰν λέγειν speak at length, Refs 5th c.BC+
II of Time, long, μ. ζῆν, ἀναμένειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐ μ. shortly, Refs 5th c.BC+ (but, not at length, Refs 1st c.BC+

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.

far2×long way off1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

makran3×

Mark 12:34… hoti nounechōs apokrinita legata auto; Ouk makran asō apo tau basileiau tou theou. …… wisely, He said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And …

Luke 7:6… sun autoi. ēdē de autou ouk makran apecharōntou apo tau oikiau pempata filoin …… them. But when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent …

Luke 15:20“long way off”… ton patron heautou. ēti de autou makran apecharōntou horata auton tos patros autou …… went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was …