noun · masculine
megistanos
Strong’sG3175
a great one, a lord
stem megistan-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.
† μεγιστάν, -ᾶνος, ὁ
(< μέγιστος), [in LXX chiefly for שַׂר, Je 24:8, al.; רַבְרְבָן, Da LXX TH 5:23, al.; freq. in Sir (sing., Si 4:7);] usually pl., οἱ μ.,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3175 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmeg-is-tan'-es
grandees
Fromplural from G3176;
King Jamesgreat men, lords.
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
great man, grandee, LXX+4th 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.
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 | megistanos | megistanois2×μεγιστᾶνες |
| object accusative | megistanon | megistanoin |
| direct address vocative | megistanor | megistanoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | megistanou | megistanoiu |
| to, for dative | megistano | megistanoi1×μεγιστᾶσιν |
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
megistano 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
megistanois“great men”subjectnominative plural2×
Revelation 6:15“great men”… tois basilevois tau gēau kai tois megistanois kai tois chiliarchois kai tois plousiois …Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the …
Revelation 18:23“great men”… hoti tois emporois su ale tois megistanois tau gēau, hoti en ta farmakeia …… again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
megistanoi“nobles”to, fordative plural1×
Mark 6:21… tei genesiei autou deipnem poiata toi megistanoi autou kai toi chiliarchoi kai toi …… Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading …