adverb
makrothen
Strong’sG3113
from a distance
stem makrothen-14 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 booksnever changes form
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
μακρόθεν means from a distance or from afar 1234, describing something happening or being seen while remote in space from the main scene, such as watching from far off or coming from far away 12.
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
μακρόθεν
(< μακρός),
adv. (chiefly late),[in LXX for רָחוֹק, מֵרָחוֹק, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3113 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmak-roth'-en
from a distance or afar
Fromadverb from G3117;
King Jamesafar off, from far.
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
adverb from afar, NT+3rd c.BC+; of Time, from long since, Refs 2nd 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.
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.
14 occurrences, every one of them listed
makrothen14×
Matthew 26:58“far away”tos de Petros akolouthate auto apo makrothen heōs tau aulau tou archierevou, kai …But Peter followed Him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. And he went …
Matthew 27:55Ale de ekei gunaikais pollais apo makrothen theōrarōntais, hotinais akolouthala to Iēso apo …And many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee …
Mark 5:6“afar”kai horarantos ton Iēsun apo makrothen trechata kai proskunata auton,… the man saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees before Him.
Mark 8:3“far away”… ta hoda; kai tinois autoiu apo makrothen hēkalē.… faint along the way. For some of them have come a great …
Mark 11:13“a distance”kai horarantos sukan apo makrothen echarōntan fulleim erchata ei ara tinem …Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there was …
Mark 14:54kai tos Petros apo makrothen akolouthata auto heōs esō eis tan …Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the …
Mark 15:40Ale de kai gunaikais apo makrothen theōrarōntais, en hai kai Marias tas …… there were also women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary …
Luke 16:23“far away”… huparcharōntos en basanai, horatō Abraam apo makrothen kai Lazaron en toi kolpoi autou.… he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
Luke 18:13“far off”tos de telōnos makrothen stēarēntos ouk thelate oude toin ofthalmoin …But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven …
Luke 22:54… tou archierevou; tos de Petros akolouthate makrothen.… the high priest. And Peter followed at a distance.
Luke 23:49stēalelē de pantois tois gnōstois auto makrothen, kai gunaikais tais sunakoloutharōntais auto apo …… followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching these things.
Revelation 18:10“far off”apo makrothen stēarēntois dia ton fobon tou basanismou …In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city …
Revelation 18:15“far off”… houteiu, tois ploutarantois apo autau, apo makrothen stēeli dia ton fobon tou basanismou …… who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will …
Revelation 18:17“far off”… kai hosois tan thalassan ergazolō, apo makrothen stēala… their living from the sea, will stand …