noun · feminine
mnas
Strong’sG3414
a mina
stem mn-9 times in the New Testament3 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.
μνᾶ, -ᾶς, ἡ
(a Semitic word; cf. Heb. מָנֶה, Aram. מְנֵא, a weight and a sum of money = 100 shekels, cf. III Ki 10:17),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3414 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmnah
a mna (i.e. mina), a certain weight
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jamespound.
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
genitive μνᾶς, nominative plural μναῖ, etc., always contracted in Attic dialect, as Refs; Ionic dialect nominative plural μνέαι Refs 6th c.BC+; accusative plural μνέας Refs 5th c.BC+; but accusative singular μνῆν Refs 3rd c.BC+; nominative plural μνέες falsa lectio for{μνέαι} in Refs 2nd c.AD+:—mina,
I as a weight, = Refs 4th c.BC+
II as a sum of money, also = Refs 5th c.BC+ (Semitic word, cf. Hebrew māneh.)
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 | mnas3×μνᾶ | mnais |
| object accusative | mnan1×μνᾶν | mnain5×μνᾶς |
| direct address vocative | mnar | mnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mnau | mnaiu |
| to, for dative | mna | mnai |
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
mna 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
mnas“mina”subjectnominative singular3×
Luke 19:16… de tos prōtos legarōntos; Kurior, tas mnas su deka prosergazeta mnain.… came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has produced ten more minas.’
Luke 19:18kai erchata tos deuteros legarōntos; Tas mnas su, kurior, poiata pente mnain.… servant came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’
Luke 19:20… heteros erchata legarōntos; Kurior, idou tas mnas su han echame apokeiorōntan en soudarie;… and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in …
mnan“mina”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 19:24… parastēarēntoi legata; Airavar apo autou tan mnan kai dōavar to tain deka mnain …… told those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to …
mnain“minas”objectaccusative plural5×
Luke 19:13… deka douloin heautou dōata autoi deka mnain kai legata pros autoin; Pragmateuevar en …… his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I …
Luke 19:16… Kurior, tas mnas su deka prosergazeta mnain.… your mina has produced ten more minas.’
Luke 19:18… Tas mnas su, kurior, poiata pente mnain.… Master, your mina has made five minas.’
Luke 19:24… mnan kai dōavar to tain deka mnain echarōnto… to the one who has ten minas.’
Luke 19:25“minas”kai legala auto; Kurior, echatō deka mnain‘Master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’