noun · feminine
monas
Strong’sG3438
lodging, dwelling-place, room
stem mon-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
** μονή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< μένω), [in LXX: I Mac 7:38*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3438 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmon-ay'
a staying, i.e. residence (the act or the place)
Fromfrom G3306;
King Jamesabode, mansion.
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
(μένω) abiding, tarrying, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἔξοδος, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to φορά, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to κίνησις, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὴν μονὴν ποιεῖσθαι make delay, tarry, Refs 5th c.BC+; persistence, continuance, τοῦ αἰσθήματος Refs 4th c.BC+
2 permanence, τῆς γῆς Refs 4th c.BC+
3 Grammars, preservation, τοῦ ν ¯ Refs 2nd c.AD+
II stopping-place, station, Refs 2nd c.AD+; apartment, NT; quarters, billets, Refs
II.2 monastery, Refs 6th c.AD+
III appearance in a court of law, Refs 3rd 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 | monas | monais1×μοναὶ |
| object accusative | monan1×μονὴν | monain |
| direct address vocative | monar | monair |
| of, belonging to genitive | monau | monaiu |
| to, for dative | mona | monai |
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
mona 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
monan“home”objectaccusative singular1×
John 14:23… auton, kai pros auton ercheni kai monan para auto poieni.… come to him and make Our home with him.
monais“rooms”subjectnominative plural1×
John 14:2en ta oikia tou patrou mu monais pollais alō; ei de mē, legama …In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would …