mēros

Strong’sG3382

the thigh

stem mēr-once in the New Testament1 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.

μηρός, -οῦ, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for יָרֵךְ;]

the thigh: Re 19:16.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3382 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmay-ros'

a thigh

Fromperhaps a primary word;

King Jamesthigh.

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

μηρός, ὁ,
thigh, φάσγανον ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενος παρὰ μηροῦ drawing his sword from his thigh, where it hung, Refs 8th c.BC+; μηρὼ πληξάμενος, in sign of vehement agitation, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐπὶ μηρόν τινος beside it, LXX+7th c.BC+
2 thigh-bone, κατ᾽ ἰσχίον, ἔνθα τε μηρὸς ἰσχίῳ ἐνστρέφεται Refs 8th c.BC+; especially of thigh-bones with flesh offered in sacrifice, μηροὺς ἐξέταμον Refs 8th c.BC+
3 generally, leg-bones, κάμηλος ἐν τοῖσι ὀπισθίοισι σκέλεσι ἔχει τέσσερας μηροὺς καὶ γούνατα τέσσερα Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf. OIr. mīr 'piece', Latin membrum, from mēmsro-, Sanskrit māmsám 'meat'.)

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.

thigh1×

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	mēros	mērois
object accusative	mēron1×μηρὸν	mēroin
direct address vocative	mēror	mēroir
of, belonging to genitive	mērou	mēroiu
to, for dative	mēro	mēroi

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

mērstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

mēro 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

mēron“thigh”objectaccusative singular1×

Revelation 19:16… epi tem himatiem kai epi ton mēron autou onomem graforēntem; Basilevos basilevoiu kai …… on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF …