Strong's Concordance

Greek
G3173

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Original: μέγας

Transliteration: megas

Phonetic: meg'-as

Thayer Definition:

great
1. of the external form or sensible appearance of things (or of persons)
  1. in particular, of space and its dimensions, as respects
    1. mass and weight: great
    2. compass and extent: large, spacious
    3. measure and height: long
    4. stature and age: great, old
2. of number and quantity: numerous, large, abundant
3. of age: the elder
4. used of intensity and its degrees: with great effort, of the affections and emotions of the mind, of natural events powerfully affecting the senses: violent, mighty, strong
predicated of rank, as belonging to
1. persons, eminent for ability, virtue, authority, power
2. things esteemed highly for their importance: of great moment, of great weight, importance
3. a thing to be highly esteemed for its excellence: excellent
splendid, prepared on a grand scale, stately
great things
1. of God's preeminent blessings
2. of things which overstep the province of a created being, proud (presumptuous) things, full of arrogance, derogatory to the majesty of God

Origin: [including the prolonged forms, feminine megale, plural megaloi, etc., cf also G3176, G3187]

TDNT entry: 12:49,6

Part(s) of speech: Adjective

Strong's Definition: Including the prolonged forms, femine μεγάλη megalē, plural μέγάλοι megaloi, etc.; compare also G3176, G3187], big (literally or figuratively, in a very wide application): - (+ fear) exceedingly, great (-est), high, large, loud, mighty, + (be) sore (afraid), strong, X to years.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (179x)

A Great (31x)

A Great Thing (1x)

A Loud (6x)

A Mighty (1x)

A Strong (1x)

An High (1x)

Exceeding Great (1x)

Exceedingly (1x)

Great (56x)

Great One (1x)

Great Thing (1x)

Great Things (1x)

Greater (8x)

Greater Than (3x)

Greatest (1x)

High (1x)

It Had Been A Great (1x)

Loud (7x)

More (1x)

Of A Great (4x)

Of Great (1x)

Of The Great (3x)

Sore (1x)

That Great (5x)

The Elder (1x)

The Great (7x)

The Greater (2x)

The Greatest (6x)

The More (1x)

This Great (1x)

To Years (1x)

With A Loud (18x)

With Great (2x)

With Loud (2x)

All Occurrences

Luke 8:37

Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.

Luke 9:46

Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.

Luke 17:15

And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

Luke 19:37

And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;

Luke 22:24

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

Luke 23:23

And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

Luke 23:46

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

Luke 24:52

And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:

John 4:12

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

John 6:18

And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.

John 7:37

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

John 8:53

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

John 11:43

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

John 19:31

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

John 21:11

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

Acts 2:20

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

Acts 4:33

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

Acts 5:5

And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

Acts 5:11

And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

Acts 6:8

And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

Acts 7:11

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Acts 7:57

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

Acts 7:60

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Acts 8:1

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Acts 8:2

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

Acts 8:7

For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

Acts 8:8

And there was great joy in that city.

Acts 8:9

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Acts 8:10

To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

Acts 10:11

And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

Acts 11:5

I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:

Acts 11:28

And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar.

Acts 14:10

Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

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G3173