adjective
megaleiem
Strong’sG3167
grand, magnificent
stem megalei-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
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.
μεγαλεῖος, -εία, -εῖον
(< μέγας), [in LXX: Ps 70 (71):19 (גָּדוֹל), al., freq. in Sir;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3167 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmeg-al-i'-os
magnificent, i.e. (neuter, plural as noun) a conspicuous favor, or (subjectively) perfection
Fromfrom G3173;
King Jamesgreat things, wonderful works.
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
(μέγας) magnificent, splendid, ῥήματα Refs 5th c.BC+; κτῆμαRefs 5th c.BC+; πίστιν -οτάταν probably in Paean cited in Refs 1st c.AD+; τὸ μ. τῶν πράξεων, τῆς ἀθανασίας, Refs 2nd c.BC+, cf. Vett. Val.70.1; τὰ μ. mighty works, LXX+NT. adverb -ως greatly, ὠφελῶν τὴν πόλιν Refs 5th c.BC+; magnificently, μ. εἴρηκας Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -ότερον Refs 5th c.BC+; -οτέρως, γαμεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of persons, stately, haughty, Refs
3 τὸ μ. τινός, as a title, Highness, Refs 3rd c.AD+
4 of style, elevated, Refs 4th c.BC+ adverb superlative -ότατα, ἑρμηνεῦσαι Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | megaleios | megaleias | megaleiem | megaleiois | megaleiais | megaleieim1×μεγαλεῖα |
| object accusative | megaleion | megaleian | megaleioin | megaleiain | ||
| direct address vocative | megaleior | megaleiar | megaleioir | megaleiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | megaleiou | megaleiau | megaleieu | megaleioiu | megaleiaiu | megaleieiu |
| to, for dative | megaleio | megaleia | megaleie | megaleioi | megaleiai | megaleiei |
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
megalei 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
megaleieim“deeds of power”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Acts 2:11“deeds of power”… lalarōntoiu autoiu tai hēmeterai glōssai teim megaleieim tou theou.… we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”