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Δαλμανουθά

Magdala

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Magdala’ fuller range ↓

G1148 Strong's Greek
Dalmanouthá Transliteration
/dal-man-oo-thah'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

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At its core, Δαλμανουθα (Dalmanouthá) means “Magdala.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Mark (100%). It occurs only once, in Mark 8:10. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Dalmanutha
Modern gloss
Magdala
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1148 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Mark 8:10
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Mark 8:10.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 100%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Gospels 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

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  • King James Version: Dalmanutha 1×
  • American Standard Version: Dalmanutha 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Dalmanutha 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dalmanutha 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1148 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Dalmanutha” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1148 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Dalmanutha” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1148 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Dalmanutha” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1148 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Dalmanutha” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Dalmanutha = "slow firebrand"
  2. is a town on the west side of the Sea of Galilee, near Magdala

Word origin

Origin: probably of Aramaic origin

Part of speech: Noun Location

Probably of Chaldee origin; Dalmanutha a place in Palestine : - Dalmanutha.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Magdala). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

A tower, a town in Galilee, mentioned only in Matt. 15:39. In the parallel passage in Mark 8:10 this place is called Dalmanutha. It was the birthplace of Mary called the Magdalen, or Mary Magdalene. It was on the west shore of the Lake of Tiberias, and is now probably the small obscure village called el-Mejdel, about 3 miles north-west of Tiberias. In the Talmud this city is called "the city of colour," and a particular district of it was called "the tower of dyers." The indigo plant was much cultivated here.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(a tower). The chief MSS. and versions exhibit the name as Magadan, as in the Revised Version. Into the limits of Magadan Christ came by boat, over the Lake of Gennesareth after his miracle of feeding the four thousand on the Mountain of the eastern side, (Matthew 15:39) and from thence he returned in the same boat to the opposite shore. In the parallel narrative of St. Mark, ch. (Mark 8:10) we find the "parts of Dalmanutha," on the western edge of the Lake of Gennesareth. The Magdala, which conferred her name on "Mary the Magdalene one of the numerous migdols, i.e. towers, which stood in Palestine, was probably the place of that name which is mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud as near Tiberias, and this again is as probably the modern el-Mejdel, a miserable little Muslim village, of twenty huts on the water's edge at the southeast corner of the plain of Gennesareth. It is now the only inhabited place on this plain.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

tower; greatness

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