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Lexicon :: Strong's G3112 - makran

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μακράν
Transliteration
makran (Key)
Pronunciation
mak-ran'
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
Feminine accusative case singular of μακρός (G3117) (3598 being implied)
mGNT
8x in 1 unique form(s) TR
10x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
50x in 2 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:372,549

Strong’s Definitions

μακράν makrán, mak-ran'; feminine accusative case singular of G3117 (G3598 being implied); at a distance (literally or figuratively):—(a-)far (off), good (great) way off.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G3112 in the following manner: far (4x), afar off (2x), good way off (1x), far hence (1x), great way off (1x), far off (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G3112 in the following manner: far (4x), afar off (2x), good way off (1x), far hence (1x), great way off (1x), far off (1x).

  1. far, a great way

  2. far hence

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μακράν makrán, mak-ran'; feminine accusative case singular of G3117 (G3598 being implied); at a distance (literally or figuratively):—(a-)far (off), good (great) way off.
STRONGS G3112:
μακράν (properly, feminine accusative of the adjective μακρός, namely, ὁδόν, a long way (Winers Grammar, 230 (216); Buttmann, § 131, 12)), adverb, the Sept. for רָחוק) (from Aeschylus down); far, a great way: absolutely, ἀπέχειν, Luke 15:20; of the terminus to which, far hence, ἐξαποστελῶ σε, Acts 22:21; with ἀπό τίνος added, Matthew 8:30; Luke 7:6 (T omits ἀπό); John 21:8; τόν Θεόν... οὐ μακράν ἀπό ἑνός ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα, i. e. who is near everyone of us by his power and influence (so that we have no need to seek the knowledge of him from without), Acts 17:27; οἱ εἰς μακράν (cf. Winer's Grammar, 415 (387)) those that are afar off, the inhabitants of remote regions, i. e. the Gentiles, Acts 2:39, cf. Isaiah 2:2ff; Zechariah 6:15. metaphorically, οὐ μακράν εἰ ἀπό τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ, but little is lacking for thy reception into the kingdom of God, or thou art almost fit to be a citizen in the divine kingdom, Mark 12:34; οἱ πότε ὄντες μακράν (opposed to οἱ ἐγγύς), of heathen (on the sense, see ἐγγύς, 1 b.), Ephesians 2:13; also οἱ μακράν, Ephesians 2:17.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
2:2
Zechariah
6:15
Matthew
8:30
Mark
12:34
Luke
7:6; 15:20
John
21:8
Acts
2:39; 17:27; 22:21
Ephesians
2:13; 2:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3112 matches the Greek μακράν (makran),
which occurs 50 times in 49 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - They had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Go after those men at once, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 - Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.” Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate the LORD’s Passover,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other),

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away),

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:11 - Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits[fn] between you and the ark; do not go near it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22 - Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by saying, ‘We live a long way from you,’ while actually you live near us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:7 - So the five men left and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure. And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous.[fn] Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians and had no relationship with anyone else.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9 - They answered, “Come on, let’s attack them! We have seen the land, and it is very good. Aren’t you going to do something? Don’t hesitate to go there and take it over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:28 - There was no one to rescue them because they lived a long way from Sidon and had no relationship with anyone else. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:46 - “When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to their own lands, far away or near;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:36 - “When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:10 - They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:3 - I get my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:5 - You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:155

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:155 - Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek out your decrees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:24 - Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8 - Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19 - A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:29 - The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7 - The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:15 - Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26 - He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles[fn] or incense altars will be left standing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:12 - Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, you who are now far from my righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - You went to Molek[fn] with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors[fn] far away; you descended to the very realm of the dead!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:19 - creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the LORD. “And I will heal them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:14 - So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - “Son of man, the people of Jerusalem have said of your fellow exiles and all the other Israelites, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land was given to us as our possession.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22 - “Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - “Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:8 - I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The LORD has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 - He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:15 - Those who are far away will come and help to build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:9 - Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return.
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