noun · masculine
mulos
Strong’sG3458
a millstone
stem mul-4 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.
† μύλος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for רֵחַים, Nu 11:8, De 24:6, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3458 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmoo'-los
a "mill", i.e. (by implication), a grinder (millstone)
Fromprobably ultimately from the base of G3433 (through the idea of hardship);
King Jamesmillstone.
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
={μύλη}, mill, LXX+1st c.AD+; μ. καβαλλαρικὸς ἐν λίθοις, μ. ὀνικός, μ. ὑδραλετικός, Refs
2 millstone, PCair. Zen.355.84 (uncertain, NT+3rd c.BC+: generally, stone, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 grinder, molar, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II poetry for μύλλος (which see), Refs 2nd c.AD+
III ={μύλη} IV, Refs 1st c.AD+ see at {ἐμυλώθη}, Refs 5th 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 | mulos2×μύλος | mulois |
| object accusative | mulon | muloin |
| direct address vocative | mulor | muloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mulou1×μύλου | muloiu |
| to, for dative | mulo1×μύλῳ | muloi |
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
mulo 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
mulos“millstone”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 18:6… eis min, sumferatō auto hina kremannuiteia mulos onikos eis ton trachēlon autou kai …… for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to …
Mark 9:42… kalem atō auto mallon ei perikeiotō mulos onikos peri ton trachēlon autou kai …… for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to …
mulou“mill”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 18:22“mill”… heuriskiteia en si ēti, kai fōnas mulou ouk mē akouiteia en si ēti,… trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
mulo“mill”to, fordative singular1×
Matthew 24:41duo alētharōntais en to mulo, henas paralabotō kai henas afiēkotō.… women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the …