ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑ, μεγιστα
MEGISTA, megista
Sounds Like: MEH-giss-tah
Translations: greatest, very great, most great, greatest ones, very great ones, most great ones
From the root: ΜΕΓΑΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the superlative form of 'great', meaning 'greatest' or 'very great'. It is used to describe something or someone as being the utmost in size, importance, or degree. In the provided examples, it refers to 'great ones' or 'nobles', indicating people of high status or power.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3176 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Peter — 1:4
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 8:213
- Book 8 — 2:23, 5:138
- Book 10 — 7:116
- Book 12 — 2:102, 6:282
- Book 13 — 6:199
- Book 15 — 8:270, 9:299
- Book 16 — 3:76, 4:99, 5:147, 8:230, 11:363, 11:376
- Book 18 — 6:181
- Book 20 — 1:5, 2:44
Josephus' The Jewish War
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 1:9
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 2 Peter — 1:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΓΑΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΑΝΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ — not great, not large, insignificant, small, of insignificant things, of small things
- ΓΑΝ — great, large, big, mighty, important, a great
- ΕΓΑ — great, large, big, mighty, important, a great, a large
- ΕΓΑΛΗ — great, large, mighty, a great
- ΕΓΑΛΗΣ — great, large, mighty, a great one
- ΕΠΙΜΕΙΖΟΝ — greater, larger, more important, more significant
- ΛΗΝ — great, large, a great, a large
- ΜΕΓΑ — great, large, mighty, important, a great, a large
- ΜΕΓΑVΛΗ — great, large, mighty, a great thing, a large thing
- ΜΕΓΑΙΛΗ — great, large, mighty, a great one, a large one, a mighty one
- ΜΕΓΑΛ — great, large, mighty, important, a great, a large
- ΜΕΓΑΛΑ — great, large, mighty, important, a great thing, great things
- ΜΕΓΑΛΑΙ — great, large, mighty, important, a great, a large
- ΜΕΓΑΛΑΙΣ — great, large, mighty, important, loud, a great, a large
- ΜΕΓΑΛΑΣ — great, large, mighty, important, loud
- ΜΕΓΑΛΕ — O great one, great
- ΜΕΓΑΛΕΙΑ — great things, mighty works, wonderful works, greatness, majesty
- ΜΕΓΑΛΕΙΟΤΕΡΑ — greater, more magnificent, more splendid, more excellent, a greater thing, greater things
- ΜΕΓΑΛΕΙΩΣ — magnificently, splendidly, gloriously, majestically
- ΜΕΓΑΛΗ — great, large, mighty, a great, a large, a mighty
- ΜΕΓΑΛΗΝ — great, large, mighty, a great, a large, a mighty
- ΜΕΓΑΛΗΣ — (of) great, (of) large, (of) mighty, (of) powerful
- ΜΕΓΑΛΟΙ — great, large, mighty, great ones, large ones
- ΜΕΓΑΛΟΙΟ — of great, of large, of mighty, of powerful, of important
- ΜΕΓΑΛΟΙΣ — to great, with great, by great, to large, with large, by large, to mighty, with mighty, by mighty
- ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ — (of) great, (of) a great, (to) great, (to) a great, great things
- ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥΣ — great, large, mighty, important, a great one, a large one, a mighty one
- ΜΕΓΑΛΩ — great, large, mighty, to great, with great
- ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ — of great, of large, of mighty, of important
- ΜΕΓΑΛΩΣ — greatly, mightily, loudly, exceedingly, very much
- ΜΕΓΑΛ‾Η‾ — great, large, a great, a large
- ΜΕΓΑΝ — great, large, mighty, important, a great, a large
- ΜΕΓΑΣ — great, large, mighty, important, significant, powerful
- ΜΕΓΑΤΩ — unknown
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙ — greatest, very great, largest
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙΣ — (to) greatest, (to) largest, (to) most important, (to) mightiest
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΣ — greatest, very great, chief men, nobles, a chief man, a noble
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΤΟΙΣ — to the greatest, for the greatest, to the largest, for the largest
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΕ — greatest, mightiest, biggest, O greatest, O mightiest, O biggest
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗ — greatest, largest, most important, a greatest, the greatest
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗΝ — greatest, a greatest, largest, a largest, biggest, a biggest
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗΣ — (of) greatest, (of) largest, (of) mightiest, (of) most important
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΙ — greatest, largest, mightiest, most important
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΙΣ — (to) greatest, (for) greatest, (to) largest, (for) largest, (to) mightiest, (for) mightiest
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΝ — greatest, largest, most important, a greatest thing
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΥ — (of) greatest, (of) biggest, (of) largest, (of) most important
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΥΣ — greatest, largest, biggest, most important, most powerful
- ΜΕΓΙΣΤΩΣ — most greatly, most highly, most importantly, most exceedingly
- ΜΕΙΖΟ — greater, larger, more important, a greater, a larger
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝ — greater, larger, more important, a greater thing
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΑ — greater, larger, more important, a greater, a larger, a more important
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΑΜΕΝ — greater, larger, more, indeed, on the one hand
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΑΣ — greater, larger, more important
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΕΣ — greater, larger, more important, greater ones, larger ones, more important ones
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΙ — greater, larger, older, more important, a greater, a larger
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΟΣ — of greater, of larger, of more, of elder
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΩΝ — of greater, of larger, of more important, of mightier
- ΜΕΙΖΟΝΩΣ — more greatly, more, greater, more exceedingly, more importantly
- ΜΕΙΖΟΣ — greater, larger, more important, mightier, older
- ΜΕΙΖΟΣΙ — (to) greater, (to) larger, (to) more important
- ΜΕΙΖΟΣΙΝ — to greater, to larger, to more important, to older, to mightier
- ΜΕΙΖΟΤΕΡΑΝ — greater, a greater, larger, a larger, more important, a more important
- ΜΕΙΖΟΥΣ — greater, larger, mightier, more important
- ΜΕΙΖΩ — greater, larger, more important, mightier, older
- ΜΕΙΖΩΝ — greater, larger, mightier, more important
- ΜΕΙΣΩΝ — greater, larger, more, superior
- ΜΙΖΟΝ — greater, larger, more, older, mightier
- ΜΙΖΟΝΑ — greater, larger, more, more important, a greater, a larger
- ΜΙΖΟΝΕΣ — greater, larger, more important, mightier
- ΜΙΖΟΝΟΣ — of greater, of larger, of more, of older
- ΜΙΖΟΤΕΡΑΝ — greater, larger, more important, a greater, a larger, a more important
- ΤΗΝΜΕΙΖΟΝΑ — the greater, the larger, the more important
- ΤΗΣΜΕΓΑΛΗΣ — (of) great, (of) large, (of) mighty, (of) important
- ΤΟΝΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΝ — the greatest, the largest, the mightiest
- ΤΩΜΕΙΖΟΝΙ — to the greater, to the larger, to the more important, to the elder
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