mesos · middle

What it means

mesos (μέσος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “middle”.

In the midst.

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. In the center of something, or surrounded by others.

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

Word study

Middle, what is in the middle; above all in the expression ‘in the middle of’, ‘in the midst of’. With words of time it forms ‘midnight’ and ‘midday’. Of the same group is μεσίτης (‘mediator’).

• “In the middle of them” Matthew 18:20John 20:19Luke 24:36
• “Like lambs in the midst of wolves” Luke 10:3Philippians 2:15
• Standing in the middle Luke 6:8Mark 3:3
• Separating from among Matthew 13:492 Corinthians 6:17
• The middle of the night; torn down the middle Matthew 25:6Luke 23:45

How we translate it

“Middle” 27 times and “midst” 14, almost always in “in the middle of” or “in the midst of”; “among” 10 (“I am among you as the one who serves”, Luke 22:27); “midday” in Acts 26:13. “The middle” is kept also when it marks the place of attention: Jesus tells the man with the withered hand “Get up and stand in the middle” (Luke 6:8), and he “stood in the middle” when he appeared to the disciples (John 20:19).

How it is translated

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

• middle ×27
• midst ×14
• among ×10
• between ×2
• way ×2
• midday ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×5
• Luke×14
• John×4
• Acts×10
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×8

• Matthew 10:16

  Look, I am sending you like sheep among wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

• Matthew 13:25

  But while people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.

• Matthew 13:49

  So it will be at the end of the age: the angels will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous

• Matthew 14:6

  But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst and pleased Herod,

• Matthew 18:2

  And calling to him a child, he set him in their midst

• Matthew 18:20

  For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them.”

• Matthew 25:6

  But in the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Look, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

• Mark 3:3

  And he says to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up and come into the middle.”

• Mark 6:47

  And when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land.

• Mark 7:31

  And again going out from the region of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of the Decapolis.

• Mark 9:36

  And taking a child, he set it in the middle of them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them,

• Mark 14:60

  And the high priest stood up in the middle and questioned Jesus, saying, “Do you not answer anything? What is it that these men are testifying against you?”

• Luke 2:46

  And it happened after three days that they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and questioning them.

• Luke 4:30

  But he, passing through the midst of them, went on his way.

• Luke 4:35

  And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the middle, it came out of him, doing him no harm.

• Luke 5:19

  And not finding how they could bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with the stretcher into the middle, in front of Jesus.

• Luke 6:8

  But he knew their reasonings, and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up and stand in the middle.” And he got up and stood there.

• Luke 8:7

  And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.

• Luke 10:3

  Go; look, I am sending you like lambs in the midst of wolves.

• Luke 17:11

  And it happened, as he was going to Jerusalem, that he was passing between Samaria and Galilee.

• Luke 21:21

  Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those in the middle of it must get out, and those in the fields must not enter into it;

• Luke 22:27

  For who is greater, the one who reclines at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

• Luke 22:55

  And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.

• Luke 23:45

  the sun having failed; and the curtain of the sanctuary was torn down the middle.

• Luke 24:36

  And while they were saying these things, he himself stood in the middle of them.

• John 1:26

  John answered them, saying, “I immerse in water; among you stands one whom you do not know,

• John 19:18

  where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle.

• John 20:19

  So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors where the disciples were had been locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle and says to them, “Peace to you.”

• John 20:26

  And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, though the doors had been locked, and stood in the middle and said, “Peace to you.”

• Acts 1:15

  And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers and said (and there was a crowd of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty):

• Acts 1:18

  Now this man acquired a field with the wages of his unrighteousness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels poured out.

• Acts 2:22

  Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested by God to you by miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know,

• Acts 4:7

  and having set them in the middle, they were inquiring, “By what power or in what name did you do this?”

• Acts 17:22

  So Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said, “Men of Athens, I see how very religious you are in every way.

• Acts 17:33

  So Paul went out from their midst.

• Acts 23:10

  And when the dissension became great, the commander, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, ordered the troops to go down, snatch him from their midst, and bring him into the barracks.

• Acts 26:13

  at midday, on the road, I saw, King, a light from heaven, beyond the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.

• Acts 27:21

  And as there was much lack of food, then Paul, standing in their midst, said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete and so spared yourselves this damage and loss.

• Acts 27:27

  And when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven across in the Adriatic, about the middle of the night the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them.

• 1 Corinthians 5:2

  And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

And 16 more times.