ΜΕΓΕΘΟΥΣ, μεγεθους
MEGETHOUS, megethous
Sounds Like: meh-GEH-thoos
Translations: of greatness, of magnitude, of size, of stature
From the root: ΜΕΓΕΘΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the quality of being great in size, extent, or importance. It can describe physical dimensions, such as the size of an object or a person's stature, or it can refer to the significance or grandeur of something. It is often used to emphasize the impressive nature of a subject.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3172 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Wisdom — 13:5
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 3:3
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 18:263
- Book 2 — 9:220, 9:224
- Book 3 — 5:76, 6:107, 7:174, 14:304
- Book 4 — 5:98
- Book 7 — 10:238
- Book 8 — 4:128, 6:168
- Book 9 — 1:17
- Book 12 — 2:61
- Book 13 — 6:211
- Book 15 — 11:395
- Book 18 — 7:256
Josephus' The Jewish War
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, 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
- ΜΕΓΕΘΕΙ — (by) size, (by) greatness, (by) magnitude, (by) extent
- 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
- ΤΟΜΕΓΕΘΟΣ — the greatness, the magnitude, the size
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