2001 Translation

MYRIA, myria

Sounds Like: MOO-ree-ah

Translations: ten thousand, countless, innumerable, a myriad, myriads

From the root: ΜΥΡΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a very large, indefinite number, often specifically ten thousand. It can function as an adjective meaning 'countless' or 'innumerable', or as a noun referring to a 'myriad' or 'ten thousand'. In the provided examples, it is used to denote a large quantity of people or animals.

Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative

Strong’s number: G3461 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 21:6

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:10

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 3:9
• Job — 42:12

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:13
• Book 7 — 14:340, 14:379
• Book 13 — 12:337, 14:382
• Book 14 — 4:78
• Book 17 — 10:269
• Book 18 — 3:64
• Book 19 — 1:3

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:17
• Book Two — 16:29
• Book Five — 9:32

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 115:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Chronicles — 29:7
• Esther — 3:9
• 3 Maccabees — 3:21
• Job — 42:12
• Enoch — 21:6

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.

• 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
• ΜΥΡΙΟΥΣ — ten thousand, countless, innumerable
• ΜΥΡΙΩ — ten thousand, countless, innumerable
• ΜΥΡΙΩΝ — of ten thousand, of myriads, of innumerable

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