mesēmbrias

Strong’sG3314

the South

stem mesēmbri-2 times 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.

μεσημβρία, -ας, ἡ

(μέσος, ἡμέρα), [in LXX chiefly for צֹהַר, Ge 3:16, al; also for נֶגֶב, Da LXX 8:4, 9, al.;]

1. noon: Ac 22:6.

2. the South: Ac 8:26.†

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

Strong’s G3314 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmes-ame-bree'-ah

midday; by implication, the south

Fromfrom G3319 and G2250;

King Jamesnoon, south.

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

μεσημβρ-ία
(μέσος, ἡμέρα), Ionic dialect μεσαμβρίη Refs 5th c.BC+: ἡ:— midday, Ζεὺς ἐκ μεσημβρίης ἔθηκε νύκτα Refs 7th c.BC+; μεσαμβρίης at noon, Refs; ἔτρωγ᾽.. σῦκα τῆς μεσημβρίας Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ μεσημβρίας just after noon, Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. ἵσταται 'tis high noon, Refs
II the South, Μολοσσῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίης Refs 5th c.BC+; κεῖται πόλις πρὸς μεσαμβρίηνRefs 2nd 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.

noon1×south1×

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	mesēmbrias	mesēmbriais
object accusative	mesēmbrian2×μεσημβρίαν	mesēmbriain
direct address vocative	mesēmbriar	mesēmbriair
of, belonging to genitive	mesēmbriau	mesēmbriaiu
to, for dative	mesēmbria	mesēmbriai

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

mesēmbristem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

mesēmbria 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

mesēmbrian“noon”objectaccusative singular2×

Acts 8:26… Filippon legarōntos; Anastēasar kai poreuosōr kata mesēmbrian epi tan hodan tan katabainarōntan apo …… to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes …

Acts 22:6… poreuorōnto kai engizarōnto ta Damaska peri mesēmbrian exaifnōs ek tou ouranou periastraptara fōtem …About noon as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly …