μήν

greekNew TestamentNoun · masculine18 occurrences5 books18 verses

Definition

μήν genitive, μηνός, ὁ,

[in LXX very frequently for חֹדֶשׁ, Genesis 7:11, al.; a few times for יֶרַח ;]

a month: Luke 1:24, 26; 1:36, 56; 4:25, Acts 7:20; 18:11; 19:8; 20:3; 28:11, James 5:17, Revelation 9:5, 10; 9:15; 11:2; 13:5; 22:2; pl., of the festival of the new moon (cf. Isaiah 66:23), Galatians 4:10.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

18 total
  1. Luke 1:24μῆνας · months
    After these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
  2. Luke 1:26μηνὶ · month
    In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
  3. Luke 1:36μὴν · month
    Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
  4. Luke 1:56μῆνας · months
    Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
  5. Luke 4:25μῆνας
    But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
  6. Acts 7:20μῆνας · months
    At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
  7. Acts 18:11μῆνας
    So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.
  8. Acts 19:8μῆνας · months
    Then Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.
  9. Acts 20:3μῆνας · months
    …where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
  10. Acts 28:11μῆνας · months
    After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.
  11. Galatians 4:10μῆνας · months
    You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
  12. James 5:17μῆνας
    Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
  13. Revelation 9:5μῆνας · months
    The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
  14. Revelation 9:10μῆνας · months
    They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
  15. Revelation 9:15μῆνα · month
    So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
  16. Revelation 11:2μῆνας · months
    But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
  17. Revelation 13:5μῆνας · months
    The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
  18. Revelation 22:2μῆνα · month
    …down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.