ΜΕΓΕΘΕΙ, μεγεθει
MEGETHEI, megethei
Sounds Like: MEG-eh-thee
Translations: (by) size, (by) greatness, (by) magnitude, (by) extent
From the root: ΜΕΓΕΘΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the physical or abstract dimension of something, indicating its size, greatness, or magnitude. It is often used to describe the extent or measure of an object or concept. In the provided examples, it describes the 'size' or 'greatness' of a 'braxionos' (arm/power).
Inflection: Singular, Dative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3172 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 0:1
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 20:144
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 11:194
- Book 2 — 5:81, 6:97, 9:214, 9:217, 9:229, 11:262
- Book 3 — 6:127, 7:166
- Book 4 — 2:26
- Book 5 — 8:264
- Book 6 — 6:130
- Book 7 — 8:189
- Book 8 — 1:17, 7:176
- Book 10 — 11:227
- Book 12 — 2:61, 2:62, 2:77, 6:233
- Book 13 — 1:16
- Book 15 — 3:51, 8:298, 10:377
- Book 16 — 1:7, 4:121, 10:306
- Book 17 — 1:7, 5:92, 5:123, 5:142, 10:273, 10:278, 11:323
- Book 19 — 1:64, 1:145
- Book 20 — 8:189
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 5:6, 8:7, 20:9, 22:18
- Book Two — 4:3
- Book Three — 3:10, 7:113
- Book Seven — 5:23, 6:7, 6:13, 9:17
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 6:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΓΕΘΟΣ.
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.
- ΕΘΕΣΙ — to the sizes, in the sizes, with the sizes
- ΜΕΓΕΘΕΙΤΗΣ — of greatness, of magnitude, of size, of importance
- ΜΕΓΕΘΕΣΙ — (to) sizes, (to) magnitudes, (to) greatnesses, (in) sizes, (in) magnitudes, (in) greatnesses
- ΜΕΓΕΘΕΣΙΝ — (to) sizes, (to) magnitudes, (to) greatnesses
- ΜΕΓΕΘΗ — greatness, magnitudes, sizes
- ΜΕΓΕΘΟΣ — greatness, magnitude, size, a greatness, a magnitude, a size
- ΜΕΓΕΘΟΣΤΗΣ — of greatness, of magnitude, of size, of extent
- ΜΕΓΕΘΟΥΣ — of greatness, of magnitude, of size, of stature
- ΤΟΜΕΓΕΘΟΣ — the greatness, the magnitude, the size
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