noun · neuter
mēkem
Strong’sG3372
length
stem mēk-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
μῆκος, -εος (-ους), τό,
[in LXX chiefly for אֹרֶךְ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3372 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmay'-kos
length (literally or figuratively) length.
Fromprobably akin to G3173;
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
Doric dialect μᾶκος Refs 4th c.BC+: εος, τό:— length, of a club, τόσσον ἔην μῆκος, τόσσον πάχος so large was it in length, so large in thickness, LXX+8th c.BC+; ἐπὶ μῆκος lengthwise, ἐπὶ μ. ἔκτασις Refs 5th c.BC+; μᾶκος ἔδικε threw a long distance, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ μεγάλα μ. great lengths, Refs 5th c.BC+
b height, of a wall, Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons, stature, Refs 8th c.BC+; μῆκος in height,Refs 5th c.BC+
c generally, μήκει in linear measurement, Refs 5th c.BC+; linearity, one-dimensional magnitude, opposed to ἐπίπεδον, βάθος, Refs: in Arith., in the first power, Refs
2 of Time, μ. χρόνου Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. λόγου, μ. τῶν λόγων, a long speech, Refs 5th c.BC+; μῆκος at length, εἰπέ μοι μὴ μ., ἀλλὰ σύντομα Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of Size or Degree, greatness, magnitude, ὄλβου Refs 5th c.BC+; μῆκος in greatness, ἔοικεν ἄλλῃ μ. οὐδὲν ἡδονῇ Refs 5th c.BC+
4 longitude, Refs 1st c.BC+
5 in Prosody, length, opposed to βραχύτης, Refs 5th c.BC+
6 first line of phalanx, Refs 1st 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 or object direct | mēkem3×μῆκος | mēkeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | mēkeu | mēkeiu |
| to, for dative | mēke | mēkei |
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
mēke 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
mēkem“length”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Ephesians 3:18… toi hagioi tinem tem platem kai mēkem kai hupsem kai bathem,… all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
Revelation 21:16… tas polas tetragōnas keiotō, kai tem mēkem autau hosem tem platem. kai metrata …… its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with …
Revelation 21:16… kalamo epi stadioin dōdeka chiliadaiu; tem mēkem kai tem platem kai tem hupsem …… its dimensions were equal — 12,000 stadia in length and width and height.