noun · feminine
marias
Strong’sG3137
Mary, Miriam
stem mari-28 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 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
Mary (also transliterated Miriam) is a proper name, the Greek form of a Hebrew and Aramaic name, borne by six different women in the New Testament 1234.
The name appears in two forms in the New Testament text, the Hellenized Maria and the indeclinable Mariam 13.
The six women who bear the name are: the mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene; the wife of Clopas, mother of James the younger and Joses; the sister of Martha and Lazarus; the mother of John Mark; and a Christian woman greeted by Paul 123.
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
Μαρία, -ας (Hellenized form), and Μαριάμ, indecl., ἡ (Aram. מַרְיָם; Heb. (MT) מִרְיָם),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3137 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmar-ee'-ah
Maria or Mariam (i.e. Mirjam), the name of six Christian females
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesMary.
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
Mary. In NT;
__1. the mother of Jesus:
__2. M. Magdalene (which see).
__3. The wife of Clopas (
__4. The sister of Martha and Lazarus:
__5. The mother of John Mark:
__6. A Christian greeted by St. Paul:
(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 | marias19×Μαρία | mariais |
| object accusative | marian1×Μαρίαν | mariain |
| direct address vocative | mariar | mariair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mariau7×Μαρίας | mariaiu |
| to, for dative | maria1×Μαρίᾳ | mariai |
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
maria 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.
28 occurrences, every one of them listed
marias“Mary”subjectnominative singular19×
Matthew 27:56en hai ate Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas tou …Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James …
Matthew 27:56… hai ate Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas tou Iakōbou kai Iōsēf mētēras …Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph …
Matthew 27:61… Mariam tas Magdalēnas kai tas allosas Marias kathorōntais apenanti tou tafou.Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were …
Matthew 28:1… Mariam tas Magdalēnas kai tas allosas Marias theōrara ton tafon.… the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went …
Mark 15:40… apo makrothen theōrarōntais, en hai kai Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas Iakōbou …… from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James …
Mark 15:40… hai kai Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas Iakōbou tou mikrou kai Iōsētou …… distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger …
Mark 15:47tas de Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas Iōsētou …Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of …
Mark 15:47tas de Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas Iōsētou theōrale pou tithotē.Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where …
Mark 16:1Kai diageneranteu teu sabbateu Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas tou …When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James …
Mark 16:1… teu sabbateu Marias tas Magdalēnas kai Marias tas tou Iakōbou kai Salōmas agorazala …… the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome …
Luke 2:19tas de Marias panteim suntērate teim rēmeim houteim sumballarōntas …But Mary treasured up all these things and …
Luke 8:2… therapeuorēntais apo pneumeiu ponēreiu kai astheniaiu, Marias tas kalorōntas Magdalēnas, apo hau daimoneim …… healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons …
Luke 24:10ale de tas Magdalēnas Marias kai Iōannas kai Marias tas Iakōbou …It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of …
Luke 24:10… tas Magdalēnas Marias kai Iōannas kai Marias tas Iakōbou kai tais loipais sun …It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the …
John 11:20… akouata hoti Iēsus erchotō hupantata auto; Marias de en to oiko kathezote.… went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
John 19:25… kai tas adelfas tau mētērau autou, Marias tas tou Klōpou kai Marias tas …… and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary …
John 19:25… autou, Marias tas tou Klōpou kai Marias tas Magdalēnas.… Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.
John 20:1Ta de hena teiu sabbateiu Marias tas Magdalēnas erchotō prōi skotiau ēti …… week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and …
John 20:11Marias de stēatelē pros te mnēmeie exō …But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. And …
marian“Mary”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 1:20… Iōsēf huios David, mē fobiseia paralabara Marian tan gunaikan su, tem gar en …… do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One …
mariau“Mary”of, belonging togenitive singular7×
Matthew 1:16… de gennata ton Iōsēf ton andron Mariau, ek hau gennita Iēsus tos legorōntos …… father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who …
Matthew 1:18… houtōs ate. mnēsteuirantau tau mētērau autou Mariau to Iōsēf, prin ē sunerchara autoin …… Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph …
Matthew 2:11… tan oikian horala tem paidiem meta Mariau tau mētērau autou, kai piptarantois proskunala …… saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped …
Mark 6:3… atō tos tektonos, tos huios tau Mariau kai adelfos Iakōbou kai Iōsētou kai …… this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses …
Luke 1:41… geneta hōs akouata ton aspasmon tau Mariau tas Elisabet, skirtata tem brefem en …When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her …
John 11:1… Lazaros apo Bēthaniau ek tau kōmau Mariau kai Marthau tau adelfau autau.… lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
Acts 12:12… tē erchata epi tan oikian tau Mariau tau mētērau Iōannou tou epikalorōntou Markou, …… he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called …
maria“Mary”to, fordative singular1×
Mark 16:9… de prōi prōta sabbateu fanita prōtem Maria ta Magdalēna, para hau ekbalatelē hepta …… had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven …