Strong G3174μέγεθος
greatness
- Transliteration
- megethos
- Pronunciation
- meg'-eth-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From G3173; magnitude (figuratively): - greatness.
Detailed definition
μέγεθος, -ους, τό
(μέγας) [in LXX chiefly for קוֹמָה;]
greatness: Eph.1:19 (cf. MM, xvi, see word μέγας).†
(AS)
(μέγας) [in LXX chiefly for קוֹמָה;]
greatness: Eph.1:19 (cf. MM, xvi, see word μέγας).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3174 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- greatness1
First verses
- Ephesians 1:19And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
μέγεθος,
Ionic dialect (not [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus))] μέγᾰθος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below), also 3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 2.19)], εος, τό: (μέγας):— greatness, magnitude, opposed to πλῆθος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 1, etc.; πλῆθος μὲν.. ἐὰν ἀριθμητὸν ᾖ, μ. δὲ ἐὰν μετρητὸν ᾖ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1020a9.)]
I in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] always stature, of men and women, εἶδος ἀκιδνοτέρη μέγεθός τ᾽ εἰσάντα ἰδέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.217, compare 6.152; ἐς μ. καὶ κάλλος ὁρώμενος 18.219, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 154c; θηλειῶν ἀρετὴ σώματος κάλλος καὶ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361a7)]: then, generally, size, μύρμηκες μεγάθεα ἔχοντες κυνῶν ἐλάσσονα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102; μ. λαβεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.3; ἡ ἐπίδοσις εἰς τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 560a20)]; of sound, loudness, βοῆς μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126: _accusative_ as)] adverb, λίθου λάμποντος μέγαθος, ={μεγάλως}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.44)]; but usually, in size, τεῖχος κατὰ τὸν Ἀθηνέων κύκλον.. τὸ μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.98; [δένδρεον] μέγαθος κατὰ συκέην μάλιστά κῃ [prev. author] 4.23; ὅσην δεῖ τὸ μ. τὴν πόλιν ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 423b)]: also in plural, ποταμοὶ οὐ κατὰ τὸν Νεῖλον ἐόντες μεγάθεα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.10, compare 1.202; σμικροὶ τὰ μεγάθεα [prev. author] 3.107; κυαμιαῖοι τὰ μ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 40; μεγέθη ἔργων καὶ διαθέσεων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 43 G.)]
I.2 frequently in dative, μεγέθει.. ἐκπρεπεστάτη in stature, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 184; ἀνθρώπους μεγέθει μεγίστους καὶ ἥκιστα διαφόρους ἐς.. τὰ μεγέθεα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 12; πλήθεϊ μέγιστον καὶ μεγάθεϊ ὑψηλότατον, of a mountain, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.203)]; κρητῆρες μεγάθεϊ μεγάλοι[Refs ([prev. work] 51; μεγάθεϊ μέγιστος [prev. author] 7.117; μ. περιμήκεας [prev. author] 2.108)]; σμικρός[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 74; ἐλάττω τῷ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 560b5.)]
II of quality and degree, greatness, magnitude, πόνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 593; τῆς παρανομίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.15; τῆς ζημίας 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.3; τῆς κολάσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 934b)]; importance, μ. ἐχούσας πράξεις [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 6.)]
II.2 might, power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 273; δαίμονος μεγέθει πάντα ἐπέχοντος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.1.)]
II.3 greatness, magnanimity, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 14; περί τι [prev. author] “Ant.” 24.)]
II.4 Rhet., loftiness, sublimity, μ. περιτιθέναι τοῖς πράγμασιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 17, compare 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 5, 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.5, etc.; λόγων μ. 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 4.1, +others)]: in plural, sublime objects, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.1, +others)]
III in Mathematics texts, magnitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista 3; μ. ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 57d, compare 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 3, etc.)]; extension, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.4.11)]: in plural, magnitudes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356c; τὰ μ. τὰ γεγραμμένα “IG” 7.3073.102 (Lebad.).)]
III.2 Astron., magnitude, of stars, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 1.11, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 7 passim.)]
IV Grammars, metrical length, τὸ μέγιστον μ. τρίχρονον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 133.26, compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 419.50.)]
IV.2 τὰ ἐν τῷ μέτρῳ μ. the recognized lengths of lines in a metre, [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 12.3.)]
V τὸ μ. τινός, as title, his Highness, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 2107.8 (3rd c.AD))]; τὸ σὸν μ. [Refs (“Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 8.10.12.1a.)]
Ionic dialect (not [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus))] μέγᾰθος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below), also 3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 2.19)], εος, τό: (μέγας):— greatness, magnitude, opposed to πλῆθος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 1, etc.; πλῆθος μὲν.. ἐὰν ἀριθμητὸν ᾖ, μ. δὲ ἐὰν μετρητὸν ᾖ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1020a9.)]
I in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] always stature, of men and women, εἶδος ἀκιδνοτέρη μέγεθός τ᾽ εἰσάντα ἰδέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.217, compare 6.152; ἐς μ. καὶ κάλλος ὁρώμενος 18.219, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 154c; θηλειῶν ἀρετὴ σώματος κάλλος καὶ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361a7)]: then, generally, size, μύρμηκες μεγάθεα ἔχοντες κυνῶν ἐλάσσονα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102; μ. λαβεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.3; ἡ ἐπίδοσις εἰς τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 560a20)]; of sound, loudness, βοῆς μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126: _accusative_ as)] adverb, λίθου λάμποντος μέγαθος, ={μεγάλως}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.44)]; but usually, in size, τεῖχος κατὰ τὸν Ἀθηνέων κύκλον.. τὸ μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.98; [δένδρεον] μέγαθος κατὰ συκέην μάλιστά κῃ [prev. author] 4.23; ὅσην δεῖ τὸ μ. τὴν πόλιν ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 423b)]: also in plural, ποταμοὶ οὐ κατὰ τὸν Νεῖλον ἐόντες μεγάθεα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.10, compare 1.202; σμικροὶ τὰ μεγάθεα [prev. author] 3.107; κυαμιαῖοι τὰ μ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 40; μεγέθη ἔργων καὶ διαθέσεων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 43 G.)]
I.2 frequently in dative, μεγέθει.. ἐκπρεπεστάτη in stature, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 184; ἀνθρώπους μεγέθει μεγίστους καὶ ἥκιστα διαφόρους ἐς.. τὰ μεγέθεα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 12; πλήθεϊ μέγιστον καὶ μεγάθεϊ ὑψηλότατον, of a mountain, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.203)]; κρητῆρες μεγάθεϊ μεγάλοι[Refs ([prev. work] 51; μεγάθεϊ μέγιστος [prev. author] 7.117; μ. περιμήκεας [prev. author] 2.108)]; σμικρός[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 74; ἐλάττω τῷ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 560b5.)]
II of quality and degree, greatness, magnitude, πόνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 593; τῆς παρανομίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.15; τῆς ζημίας 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.3; τῆς κολάσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 934b)]; importance, μ. ἐχούσας πράξεις [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 6.)]
II.2 might, power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 273; δαίμονος μεγέθει πάντα ἐπέχοντος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.1.)]
II.3 greatness, magnanimity, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 14; περί τι [prev. author] “Ant.” 24.)]
II.4 Rhet., loftiness, sublimity, μ. περιτιθέναι τοῖς πράγμασιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 17, compare 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 5, 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.5, etc.; λόγων μ. 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 4.1, +others)]: in plural, sublime objects, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.1, +others)]
III in Mathematics texts, magnitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista 3; μ. ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 57d, compare 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 3, etc.)]; extension, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.4.11)]: in plural, magnitudes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356c; τὰ μ. τὰ γεγραμμένα “IG” 7.3073.102 (Lebad.).)]
III.2 Astron., magnitude, of stars, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 1.11, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 7 passim.)]
IV Grammars, metrical length, τὸ μέγιστον μ. τρίχρονον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 133.26, compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 419.50.)]
IV.2 τὰ ἐν τῷ μέτρῳ μ. the recognized lengths of lines in a metre, [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 12.3.)]
V τὸ μ. τινός, as title, his Highness, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 2107.8 (3rd c.AD))]; τὸ σὸν μ. [Refs (“Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 8.10.12.1a.)]