μεγιστάν
nobleman, magnate
Where this word appears
Every passage where μεγιστάν appears in the Greek Septuagint — 18 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 μεγιστάν 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.
- Proverbs 8:16 μεγιστάν By me nobles become great, and monarchs by me rule over the earth.
- Isaiah 34:12 μεγιστάν Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
- Jeremiah 14:3 μεγιστάν 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.
- Jeremiah 24:8 μεγιστάν And as the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, for their badness; thus says 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.
- Jeremiah 25:18 μεγιστάν
- Jeremiah 27:35 μεγιστάν and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
- Jeremiah 32:6 μεγιστάν
- Jeremiah 41:10 μεγιστάν 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,
- Ezekiel 30:13 μεγιστάν For thus says 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.
- Daniel 1:3 μεγιστάν And the king told Asphanez his chief eunuch, to bring in some of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;
- Daniel 4:29 μεγιστάν And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the wild beasts of the field, and they shall feed you with grass as an ox: and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whoever he shall please.
- Daniel 5:16 μεγιστάν And I have heard concerning you, that you are able to make interpretations: now then if you shall be able to read the writing, and to make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and there shall be a golden chain upon your neck, and you shall be third ruler in my kingdom.
- Daniel 6:18 μεγιστάν And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they not molest Daniel.
- Jonah 3:7 μεγιστάν And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king an by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.
- Nahum 2:6 μεγιστάν The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,
- Nahum 3:10 μεγιστάν 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.
- Zechariah 11:2 μεγιστάν Let the pine howl, because the cedar has fallen; for the mighty men have been greatly afflicted: howl, you⌃ oaks of the land of Basan; for the thickly planted forest has been torn down.
About this word
About this word
μεγιστάν (megistán), “nobleman, magnate,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 18 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →