2001 Translation

MALA, mala

Sounds Like: MAH-lah

Translations: very, much, exceedingly, greatly, indeed

From the root: ΜΑΛΑ

Part of Speech: Adverb

Explanation: This word is an adverb used to intensify the meaning of an adjective, adverb, or verb. It means 'very,' 'much,' or 'exceedingly.' It is often found in combination with other adverbs, such as 'εὖ' (eu), to form phrases like 'εὖ μάλα' meaning 'very well' or 'exceedingly well.' It emphasizes the degree or extent of something.

Inflection: Does not inflect

Strong’s number: G3170 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:20, 1:190, 1:207, 1:220

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:4, 3:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 7:10, 10:6
• 4 Maccabees — 13:13

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 5:51
• Book Two — 5:51

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 12 — 10:398
• Book 14 — 14:374
• Book 16 — 10:323
• Book 18 — 5:116
• Book 19 — 1:138, 6:294

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 14:14, 18:2
• Book Seven — 5:63

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 68:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Numbers — 26:37, 27:1
• 2 Samuel — 14:5
• 1 Kings — 1:43
• 2 Kings — 4:14
• Tobit — 7:10, 10:6
• 2 Maccabees — 8:30, 10:18, 10:32, 12:18
• 4 Maccabees — 13:13
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 10:21

From the same root

No other words from the same root, ΜΑΛΑ, appear in our texts.

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