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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 Box Gen 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Get up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Intercede for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 - Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD’s Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - “of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - “But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - “Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:11 - “For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - “Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - And he commanded them, saying: “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22 - Then Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell near us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:7 - So the five men departed and went to Laish. They saw the people who were there, how they dwelt safely, in the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure. There were no rulers in the land who might put them to shame for anything. They were far from the Sidonians, and they had no ties with anyone.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:9 - So they said, “Arise, let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and indeed it is very good. Would you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, and enter to possess the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:28 - There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no ties with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth Rehob. So they rebuilt the city and dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 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 deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 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 deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near;

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - Then I said to the nobles, the rulers, and the rest of the people, “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one another on the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:10 - They abhor me, they keep far from me;
They do not hesitate to spit in my face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the Dawn.”[fn] A Psalm of David.

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 65:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:5 - By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answer us,
O God of our salvation,
You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
And of the far-off seas;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:155

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:155 - Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - To deliver you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:24 - Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
And put perverse lips far from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8 - Remove your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19 - A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul,
But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 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 Box Pro 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7 - All the brothers of the poor hate him;
How much more do his friends go far from him!
He may pursue them with words, yet they abandon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:15 - Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Remove falsehood and lies far from me;
Give me neither poverty nor riches—
Feed me with the food allotted to me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26 - He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar,
And will whistle to them from the end of the earth;
Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
Wooden images[fn] and incense altars shall not stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:12 - “Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted,
Who are far from righteousness:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - You went to the king with ointment,
And increased your perfumes;
You sent your messengers far off,
And even descended to Sheol.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:19 - “I create the fruit of the lips:
Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,”
Says the LORD,
“And I will heal him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We all growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:14 - Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - ‘He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - “Son of man, your brethren, your relatives, your countrymen, and all the house of Israel in its entirety, are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Get far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22 - “Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land of Israel, which says, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails’?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:5 - “Those near and those far from you will mock you as infamous and full of tumult.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - “O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:8 - I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the Sabeans,[fn]
To a people far off;
For the LORD has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 - He shall judge between many peoples,
And rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:15 - “Even those from afar shall come and build the temple of the LORD. Then you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you. And this shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:9 - “I will sow them among the peoples,
And they shall remember Me in far countries;
They shall live, together with their children,
And they shall return.
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