Μαγδαληνή
Magdalene
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 11 times (92%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3094 appears — 12 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 3 verses
- Matthew 27:56 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
- Matthew 27:61 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
- Matthew 28:1 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 15:40 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
- Mark 15:47 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
- Mark 16:1 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
- Mark 16:9 Μαγδαληνῇ n dat sg fem Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 8:2 Μαγδαληνή n nom sg fem and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
- Luke 24:10 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.
John 3 verses
- John 19:25 Μαγδαληνή n nom sg fem But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
- John 20:1 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
- John 20:18 Μαγδαληνὴ n nom sg fem Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek name Μαγδαληνη centers on the idea of “Magdalene.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 27:56. Spanning 12 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Mark dominates its distribution — 4 of 12 verses. For the data behind this summary, explore 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3094 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 12 verses · 100%
- Johannine 3 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Magdalene 12×
- American Standard Version: Magdalene 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Magdalene 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Magdalene 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3094 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3094 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3094 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3094 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- Magdalene = "a tower"
- a name given to Mary Magdalene, identifying her as from Magdala
Word origin
Derived from Μαγδαλα (Magdalá) (G3093) — Magdala.
Feminine of a derivative of G3093 ; a female Magdalene that is inhabitant of Magdala : - Magdalene.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3094 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Μαγδαληνὴ Magdalēnḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 27:56 | 9 |
| Μαγδαληνή Magdalēnḗ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 8:2 | 2 |
| Μαγδαληνῇ Magdalēnē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 16:9 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Magdalene). 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 surname derived from Magdala, the place of her nativity, given to one of the Marys of the Gospels to distinguish her from the other Marys (Matt. 27:56, 61; 28:1, etc.). A mistaken notion has prevailed that this Mary was a woman of bad character, that she was the woman who is emphatically called "a sinner" (Luke 7:36-50). (See MARY.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a person from Magdala
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
