Month
μήνStrong’s G3376mēn
Appears in 18 verses of the New Testament
In short
Mēn is the Greek word usually translated “months” and “month”. It appears in 18 verses of the New Testament.
“And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,”
Meaning
Usually translated “months” and “month”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- months 13
- month 4
- for months 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 6
- Luke 5
- Acts 5
- Galatians 1
- James 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 1:26And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
- Luke 1:36And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
- Luke 1:56And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
- Luke 4:25But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
- Acts 7:20In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
- Acts 18:11And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
Greek dictionary
μήν mēn · month
μήν genitive, μηνός, ὁ, [in LXX very frequently for חֹדֶשׁ, Gen.7:11, al.; a few times for יֶרַח ;] a month: Luk.1:24, 26 1:36, 56 4:25, Act.7:20 18:11 19:8 20:3 28:11, Jas.5:17, Rev.9:5, 10 9:15 11:2 13:5 22:2; pl., of the festival of the new moon (cf. Isa.66:23), Gal.4:10.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “month” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MONTH, noun
[Latin mensis; Gr. a month from the moon.]
A space or period of time constituting a division of the year. month originally signified the time of one revolution of the moon, a lunation, or the period from one change or conjunction of the moon with the sun to another, a period of 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes and 5 seconds. This is the periodical month or as we generally call it, the lunar month In this sense we still use the word month But we also apply the term to the space of time in which the sun passes through one sign, or a twelfth part of the zodiac. This period contains 30 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, 5 seconds, and it called a solar month In the year, there are twelve solar months, and thirteen lunar months.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.