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
Occurrences
18 total
- Luke 1:24μῆνας · monthsAfter these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
- Luke 1:26μηνὶ · monthIn the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
- Luke 1:36μὴν · monthLook, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
- Luke 1:56μῆνας · monthsMary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
- Luke 4:25μῆναςBut 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.
- Acts 7:20μῆνας · monthsAt 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.
- Acts 18:11μῆναςSo Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.
- Acts 19:8μῆνας · monthsThen Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.
- 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.
- Acts 28:11μῆνας · monthsAfter three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.
- Galatians 4:10μῆνας · monthsYou are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
- James 5:17μῆναςElijah 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.
- Revelation 9:5μῆνας · monthsThe 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.
- Revelation 9:10μῆνας · monthsThey had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
- Revelation 9:15μῆνα · monthSo the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
- Revelation 11:2μῆνας · monthsBut 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.
- Revelation 13:5μῆνας · monthsThe beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
- 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.