2001 Translation

MEGISTOS, megistos

Sounds Like: MEH-giss-toss

Translations: greatest, largest, most important, very great

From the root: ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is a superlative adjective, meaning 'greatest' or 'largest'. It is used to describe something that is supreme in size, importance, or degree. It functions similarly to the English 'most' or '-est' suffix when comparing things.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Superlative

Strong’s number: G3176 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 5:7

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 11 — 1:3
• Book 14 — 4:69, 15:462
• Book 15 — 9:336
• Book 19 — 5:287

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 20:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 15:18

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΣ.

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.

• ΜΕΓΙΣΤΩ — greatest, largest, most important, most significant, a greatest, a largest
• ΜΕΓΙΣΤΩΝ — of greatest, of largest, of mightiest, of most important, of the greatest, of the largest, of the mightiest, of the most important

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