2001 Translation

MYRIOUS, myrious

Sounds Like: MY-ree-oos

Translations: ten thousand, countless, innumerable

From the root: ΜΥΡΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is an adjective that literally means 'ten thousand'. However, it is often used hyperbolically to mean 'countless' or 'innumerable', indicating a very large, indefinite number. It can be used to describe a multitude of people or things.

Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3463 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 9:16
• Judith — 2:15
• 1 Corinthians — 4:15, 14:19

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 12:131
• Book Two — 12:131

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 4:70
• Book 4 — 7:159
• Book 5 — 2:122, 2:164, 4:196, 5:199, 5:202, 5:203
• Book 7 — 5:109, 6:121, 6:127, 9:215, 14:379
• Book 8 — 2:58, 4:122
• Book 9 — 8:174, 9:191, 11:238
• Book 10 — 7:101
• Book 12 — 5:251
• Book 13 — 7:91, 13:356
• Book 14 — 4:71, 5:83
• Book 15 — 9:314, 11:390
• Book 17 — 10:297
• Book 20 — 9:219

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:3, 5:9, 9:3
• Book Two — 18:12, 20:6
• Book Four — 8:8

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 62:321, 64:331

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Chronicles — 29:7
• Esther — 9:16
• Judith — 2:15

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 1 Corinthians — 4:15, 14:19

From the same root

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

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.

• ΜΥΡΙΑ — ten thousand, countless, innumerable, a myriad, myriads
• ΜΥΡΙΑΙ — ten thousand, innumerable, myriad, ten thousands, myriads
• ΜΥΡΙΑΙΣ — (to) ten thousand, (to) innumerable, (to) countless
• ΜΥΡΙΟΣ — ten thousand, a myriad, countless, innumerable, infinite, very many
• ΜΥΡΙΩ — ten thousand, countless, innumerable
• ΜΥΡΙΩΝ — of ten thousand, of myriads, of innumerable

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