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Lexicon :: Strong's G3175 - megistan

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μεγιστάν
Transliteration
megistan (Key)
Pronunciation
meg-is-tan'-es
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

†μεγιστᾶνες megistânes, meg-is-tan'-es; plural from G3176; grandees:—great men, lords.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G3175 in the following manner: great men (2x), lords (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G3175 in the following manner: great men (2x), lords (1x).

  1. the grandees, magnates, nobles, chief men

    1. of a city or a people

    2. of the associates or courtiers of a king

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†μεγιστᾶνες megistânes, meg-is-tan'-es; plural from G3176; grandees:—great men, lords.
STRONGS G3175:
μεγιστάν, μεγιστανος, ὁ (from μέγιστος, as νέαν from νέος, ξυνάν from ξυνός), a later Greek word (see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 196), once in singular Sir. 4:7; commonly in plural οἱ μεγιστᾶνες, the grandees, magnates, nobles, chief men of a city or a people, the associates or courtiers of a king (Vulg.principes): Revelation 6:15; τῆς γῆς, Revelation 18:23; τοῦ Ἡρῴδου, Mark 6:21. (The Sept. for אַדִּירִים, Jeremiah 14:3; Nahum 2:6; Zechariah 11:2; גְּדולִים, Jonah 3:7; Nahum 3:10; רַבְרְבִין, Daniel, Theod. 4:33, etc.; שָׂרִים, Isaiah 34:12; Jeremiah 24:8, etc.; 1 Macc. 9:37; often in Sir. Manetho 4, 41; Josephus, Artemidorus Daldianus, In Latinmegistanes, Tacitus, ann. 15, 27; Suct. Calig. 5.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
34:12
Jeremiah
14:3; 24:8
Jonah
3:7
Nahum
2:6; 3:10
Zechariah
11:2
Mark
6:21
Revelation
6:15; 18:23

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3175 matches the Greek μεγιστάν (megistan),
which occurs 22 times in 22 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and all the treasures of the king and the great men; he brought all to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:16 - By me nobles become great, and monarchs by me rule over the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:12 - Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 - And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:19 - (LXX 32:19) and Pharao king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10 - (LXX 41:10) Then all the nobles, and all the people who had entered into the covenant, engaging to set free every one his man-servant, and every one his maid, turned,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:38 - (LXX 25:18) And I will set my throne in Ælam, and will send forth thence king and rulers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:35 - (LXX 27:35) and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 - For thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the nobles from Memphis, and the princes of Memphis out of the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 - (LXX 3:91) And Nabuchodonosor heard them singing praises; and he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? and they said to the king, Yes, O king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:36 - At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honour of my kingdom; and my natural form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:1 - Baltasar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and there was wine before the thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:2 - And Baltasar drinking gave orders as he tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels, which Nabuchodonosor his father had brought forth from the temple in Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, should drink out of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:3 - So the gold and silver vessels were brought which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, drank out of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:9 - And king Baltasar was troubled, and his countenance changed upon him, and his nobles were troubled with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - And thou hast been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before thee the vessels of his house, and thou, and thy nobles, and thy mistresses, and thy concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and thou hast praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are thy breath and all thy ways hast thou not glorified.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17 - (LXX 6:18) And they brought a stone, and put it on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his ring, and with the ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to Daniel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5 - (LXX 2:6) And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defences.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:10 - Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:2 - Let the pine howl, because the cedar has fallen; for the mighty men have been greatly afflicted: howl, ye oaks of the land of Basan; for the thickly planted forest has been torn down.
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