μεγιστᾶνες
megistanes · noble
Greek word · Strong’s number G3175 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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megistanes (μεγιστᾶνες) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “noble”.
High official, great man.
How to say it
me·gis·ta·nes
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The important figures of a court or land.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- great men ×1
- great ones ×1
- nobles ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Mark 6:21
And an opportune day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and the commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- Revelation 6:15
And the kings of the earth and the great ones and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
- Revelation 18:23
and the light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.