noun · feminine
megaleiotas
Strong’sG3168
majesty
stem megaleiot-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
μεγαλειότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< μεγαλεῖος), [in LXX: Je 40 (33):9 (תִּפְאֶרֶת), Da LXX 7:27, I Es 1:5 4:40*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3168 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmeg-al-i-ot'-ace
superbness, i.e. glory or splendor
Fromfrom G3167;
King Jamesmagnificence, majesty, mighty power.
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
majesty, magnificence, NT+1st c.AD+; of a person, greatness, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II as a title, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἐν ταῖς μ. γενήσεται Refs 2nd c.AD+; also, = Latin majestas, ἡ μ. τοῦ Ῥωμαίων δήμου Refs 3rd 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | megaleiotas | megaleiotais |
| object accusative | megaleiotan | megaleiotain |
| direct address vocative | megaleiotar | megaleiotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | megaleiotau2×μεγαλειότητος | megaleiotaiu |
| to, for dative | megaleiota1×μεγαλειότητι | megaleiotai |
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
megaleiota 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
megaleiotau“majesty”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 19:27“magnificence”… logizira, mellarō tē kai kathairorō tau megaleiotau autau, han holas tas Asias kai …… the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed — she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole …
2 Peter 1:16… parousian, alla epoptois genirantois tau ekeinou megaleiotau.… but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
megaleiota“greatness”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 9:43ekplēssole de pantois epi ta megaleiota tou theou. Pantoiu de thaumazarōntoiu epi …… they were all astonished at the greatness of God. While everyone was marveling …