ΜΗΧΑΝΑΣ, μηχανας
MĒCHANAS, mēchanas
Sounds Like: mee-kha-NAS
Translations: machines, devices, contrivances, schemes, plots
From the root: ΜΗΧΑΝΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a machine, device, or contrivance, often one used for a specific purpose, such as a military engine or a tool. It can also refer to a clever plan, scheme, or plot, especially one designed to achieve a particular outcome, whether good or bad. In a sentence, it would function as the object of a verb or preposition.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3180 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 8:7
- Book Two — 19:34
- Book Three — 7:35, 7:121, 7:123, 7:136
- Book Four — 1:17, 1:19, 3:7, 9:98
- Book Five — 6:16, 6:39, 11:29, 11:31
- Book Six — 2:29, 8:19
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΗΧΑΝΗ.
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.
- ΜΗΧΑΝΑΙ — machines, devices, contrivances, engines, plans, schemes
- ΜΗΧΑΝΑΙΣ — by devices, by machines, by contrivances, by engines, by plans, by schemes
- ΜΗΧΑΝΑΣἨΡΟΝ — machines, devices, contrivances
- ΜΗΧΑΝΑΣΗΡΟΝ — unknown
- ΜΗΧΑΝΕΑΣ — of a device, of a machine, of an instrument, of a contrivance, of a stratagem, of a trick
- ΜΗΧΑΝΗ — device, a device, contrivance, a contrivance, machine, a machine, engine, an engine, plan, a plan, scheme, a scheme, means, a means, stratagem, a stratagem
- ΜΗΧΑΝΗΜΑ — device, a device, machine, a machine, contrivance, a contrivance, invention, an invention, engine, an engine, instrument, an instrument, stratagem, a stratagem, trick, a trick
- ΜΗΧΑΝΗΜΑΤΑ — devices, machines, contrivances, inventions, engines, instruments, mechanisms, implements, stratagems, plots, schemes
- ΜΗΧΑΝΗΝ — machine, a machine, device, a device, contrivance, a contrivance, means, a means, method, a method, plan, a plan, stratagem, a stratagem
- ΜΗΧΑΝΗΣ — of machine, of device, of contrivance, of engine, of siege engine, of plan, of scheme
- ΜΗΧΑΝΗΤΟΣ — contrived, devised, artificial, made by art, mechanical
- ΜΗΧΑΝΩΝ — of machines, of devices, of contrivances, of engines, of instruments, of means, of plans, of plots
- ΜΙΧΑΝΟΝ — device, contrivance, machine, engine, a device, a contrivance
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