noun · masculine
modios
Strong’sG3426
a dry measure, nearly two English gallons
stem modi-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
† μοιχαλίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(= Att. μοιχάς, fem. of μοιχός), [in LXX: Pr 18:22 24:55 (30:20), Ez 16:38 23:45, Ho 3:1, Ma 3:5 (נֹאֶפֶת, מְנָאֶפֶת)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3426 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmod'-ee-os
a modius, i.e. certain measure for things dry (the quantity or the utensil)
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jamesbushel.
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
= Latin modius, a dry measure, = 1/6 μέδιμνος, for which it is falsa lectio in Refs 4th c.BC+
2 vessel of this capacity, NT
II a measure of length, = 200 ὀργυιαί, Refs 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.
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 | modios | modiois |
| object accusative | modion3×μόδιον | modioin |
| direct address vocative | modior | modioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | modiou | modioiu |
| to, for dative | modio | modioi |
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
modio 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
modion“basket”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 5:15… luchnon kai tithalō auton hupo ton modion alla epi tan luchnan, kai lampatō …… lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a …
Mark 4:21… erchotō tos luchnos hina hupo ton modion tithiteia ē hupo tan klinan, ouk …… lamp to put it under a basket or under a bed? Doesn’t he …
Luke 11:33… eis kruptan tithatō oude hupo ton modion alla epi tan luchnan, hina tois …… in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a …