adverb
molis
Strong’sG3433
with difficulty, hardly
stem moli-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 booksnever changes form
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.
μόλις,
adv.(< μόλος, toil),
post-Hom. alternative for μόγις,[in LXX: Pr 11:31, Wi 9:16, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3433 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmol'-is
with difficulty
Fromprobably by variation for G3425;
King Jameshardly, scarce(-ly), + with much work.
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
adverb, post-Refs 8th c.BC+, prevailing in Trag., Comedy texts, and Attic dialect prose, though in Refs 5th c.BC+ the Laur. Ms. gives each form twice, the same Ms. of Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. μέν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως ἠνεσχόμην Refs 5th c.BC+; ζῶντι καὶ μάλα μ. nay, only just alive, Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. καὶ ἠρέμα πάσχειν scarcely at all.., Refs 4th c.BC+ not scarcely, i.e. quite, utterly, ἀπώλεσας οὐ μ. Refs 4th c.BC+; θέλουσαν οὐ μ. καλεῖς Refs 5th 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
molis6×
Acts 14:18“scarcely”kai houteim legarōntois molis katapauala toin ochloin teu mē thuarō …Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to …
Acts 27:7“with difficulty”en hikanai de hēmerai braduploarōntois kai molis generantois kata tan Knidan, mē proseasarōntou …… sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the …
Acts 27:8molis tē paralegorōntois autan erchana eis topon …… we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called …
Acts 27:16“with difficulty”… de tinem hupotrecharantois kalorōntem Kaudem ischuana molis perikratois genera tau skafau,… lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
Romans 5:7molis gar huper dikaiou tinos apothnēsketi; huper …Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous …
1 Peter 4:18“with difficulty”kai ei tos dikaios molis sōzotō, tos asebos kai hamartōlos pou …And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”