noun · feminine
muriadas
Strong’sG3461
a myriad, ten thousand
stem muriad-8 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 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.
μυριάς, -άδος, ἡ
(< μυρίος), [in LXX chiefly for רְבָבָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3461 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmoo-ree'-as
a ten-thousand; by extension, a "myriad" or indefinite number
Fromfrom G3463;
King Jamesten thousand.
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
Attic dialect genitive plural μυριαδῶν Refs 2nd c.AD+:—number of Refsmyriad, Refs 5th c.BC+ times Refs 3rd c.AD+: frequently of countless numbers, Refs 5th c.BC+; of money (i.e. δραχμῶν), Refs 5th c.BC+; of corn (i.e. μεδίμνων), Refs 5th c.BC+; also (i.e. ἀρταβῶν), Refs 3rd c.AD+
II as adjective, φύστις μ. ἀνδρῶν 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.
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 | muriadas | muriadais2×μυριάδες |
| object accusative | muriadan | muriadain1×μυριάδας |
| direct address vocative | muriadar | muriadair |
| of, belonging to genitive | muriadau | muriadaiu3×μυριάδων |
| to, for dative | muriada | muriadai2×μυριάσιν |
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
muriada 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
muriadais“thousands”subjectnominative plural2×
Acts 21:20… legala tē auto; Theōrasō, adelfor, posais muriadais alō en toi Ioudaioi toiu pisteuarēntoiu, …… Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all …
Revelation 5:11“ten thousand”… presbuteroiu, kai ate tos arithmos autoiu muriadais muriadaiu kai chiliadais chiliadaiu,… I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
muriadain“thousand”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 19:19… tain timain autaiu kai heuriskala argurieu muriadain pente.… calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
muriadaiu“ten thousand”of, belonging togenitive plural3×
Luke 12:1En hei episunagirantaiu taiu muriadaiu tou ochlou, hōste katapatarō allēloin, archeta …… the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were …
Revelation 5:11“ten thousand”… kai ate tos arithmos autoiu muriadais muriadaiu kai chiliadais chiliadaiu,… I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
Revelation 9:16“ten thousand”… arithmos teiu strateumeiu teu hippikeu dismuriadais muriadaiu; akouama ton arithmon auteiu.And the number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.
muriadai“myriads”to, fordative plural2×
Hebrews 12:22… pola theou zōarōntou, Ierousalēm epourana, kai muriadai angeloiu, panēguria… heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
Jude 1:14“ten thousands”… legarōntos; Idou erchata kurios en hagiai muriadai autou,… about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones