mēn · month

What it means

mēn (μήν) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “month”.

How to say it

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

1. A period of about thirty days, one of the twelve parts of the year.
2. Strongly affirms that something will truly happen.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• months ×14
• month ×4
• Surely ×1

Where it appears

• Luke×5
• Acts×5
• Galatians×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• Revelation×6

• Luke 1:24

  And after these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

• Luke 1:26

  And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth,

• Luke 1:36

  And look, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;

• Luke 1:56

  And Mary stayed with her about three months and returned to her home.

• Luke 4:25

  But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

• Acts 7:20

  At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. He was brought up three months in his father’s house.

• Acts 18:11

  And he settled there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

• Acts 19:8

  And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading about the kingdom of God.

• Acts 20:3

  And after he had spent three months there, when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

• Acts 28:11

  And after three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the emblem of the Dioscuri.

• Galatians 4:10

  You observe days and months and seasons and years!

• Hebrews 6:14

  saying: Surely I will bless you abundantly, and I will multiply you abundantly.

• James 5:17

  Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

• Revelation 9:5

  And it was granted to them not to kill them, but to torment them for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.

• Revelation 9:10

  And they have tails like scorpions’ and stingers, and in their tails is their authority to harm people for five months.

• Revelation 9:15

  And the four angels were released, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of mankind.

• Revelation 11:2

  And the court outside the sanctuary, leave it out, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

• Revelation 13:5

  And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and there was given to it authority to act for forty two months.

• Revelation 22:2

  in the middle of its street. And on either side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.