noun · masculine
mēdos
GreekΜῆδος (mēdos)
Strong’sG3370
a Mede
stem mēd-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Μῆδος, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3370 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmay'-dos
a Median, or inhabitant of Media
Fromof foreign origin (compare );
King JamesMede.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | mēdos | mēdois1×Μῆδοι |
| object accusative | mēdon | mēdoin |
| direct address vocative | mēdor | mēdoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mēdou | mēdoiu |
| to, for dative | mēdo | mēdoi |
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
mēdo 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
mēdois“Medes”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 2:9“Medes”Parthois kai Mēdois kai Elamitois, kai tois katoikarōtois tan Mesopotamian, Ioudaian tē kai Kappadokian, Ponton kai tan Asian,Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,