noun · masculine
mesitos
Strong’sG3316
a mediator, go-between
stem mesit-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
† μεσίτης, -ου, ὁ
(< μέσος), [in LXX: Jb 9:33 (בַּיִן)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3316 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmes-ee'-tace
a go-between, i.e. (simply) an internunciator, or (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor)
Fromfrom G3319;
King Jamesmediator.
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
mediator, umpire, arbitrator, NT+3rd c.BC+; stakeholder, Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 feminine μεσῖτις, ιδος, φιλίας μεσῖτιν τράπεζαν παραθέμενοι Refs 2nd c.AD+
II in a middle position, of a limb, Refs 2nd 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 | mesitos4×μεσίτης | mesitois |
| object accusative | mesiton | mesitoin |
| direct address vocative | mesitor | mesitoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mesitou1×μεσίτου | mesitoiu |
| to, for dative | mesito1×μεσίτῃ | mesitoi |
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
mesito 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
mesitos“mediator”subjectnominative singular4×
Galatians 3:20tos de mesitos henou ouk atō, tos de theos …A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one …
1 Timothy 2:5henos gar theos, henos kai mesitos theou kai anthrōpoiu anthrōpos Christos Iēsus,… one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man …
Hebrews 8:6“mediator”… leitourgiau, hose kai kreittonau atō diathēkau mesitos, hotinas epi kreittonai epangeliai nomothetotē.… more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
Hebrews 9:15Kai dia houtem diathēkau kainau mesitos atō, hopōs thanatou generantou eis apolutrōsian …Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that …
mesitou“mediator”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Galatians 3:19… epangelotē, diatassirantos dia angeloiu en cheira mesitou;… was administered through angels by a mediator.
mesito“mediator”to, fordative singular1×
Hebrews 12:24kai diathēkau neau mesito Iēso, kai haime rantismou kreittonem lalarōnto …to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to …