Myriad
μυριάςStrong’s G3461murias
Appears in 6 verses of the New Testament
In short
Murias is the Greek word usually translated “myriads” and “ten thousands”. It appears in 6 verses of the New Testament.
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,”
Meaning
Usually translated “myriads” and “ten thousands”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- myriads 4
- to myriads 1
- ten thousands 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 2
- Luke 1
- Hebrews 1
- Jude 1
- Revelation 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 12:1In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Acts 19:19Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
- Acts 21:20And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
- Hebrews 12:22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
- Revelation 9:16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
Greek dictionary
μυριάς murias · myriad
μυριάς, -άδος, ἡ (μυρίος), [in LXX chiefly for רְבָבָה ;] ten thousand, a myriad: pl., Act.19:19, Rev.5:11 9:16; hyperb., of vast numbers, Luk.12:1, Act.21:20, Heb.12:12, Ju 14.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “myriad” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MYR'IAD, noun
[Gr. extreme, innumerable.]
- The number of ten thousand.
- An immense number, indefinitely.
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.