μακράν
far off
‘far off’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G3112 appears — 9 distinct verses across 6 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 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 7:6 μακρὰν adv Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
- Luke 15:20 μακρὰν adv "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
John 1 verse
Acts 2 verses
Ephesians 2 verses
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.
At its core, μακραν (makrán) means “far off.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 8:30. Spanning 9 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. From the same root come μακρος, μακροθεν and μακροθυμως. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3112 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 56%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 44%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 22%
- Johannine 1 verse · 11%
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: Far 4×
- American Standard Version: Far 4×, Afar off 3×, Far off 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Far 3×, Far away 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Far 5×, Far away 3×, Distance 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3112 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3112 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3112 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3112 across 10 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.
- far, a great way
- far hence
Word origin
Derived from μακρος (makrós) (G3117) — long.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3112, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- μακροθεν makróthen G3113 afar
- μακροθυμως makrothymṓs G3116 patiently
- μακροχρονιος makrochrónios G3118 long-lived
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μακραν appears 48 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 47 verses in 18 books.
- 48
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 47
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 44:4 μακράν
- Exodus 8:24 μακράν
- Numbers 9:10 μακράν
- Deuteronomy 13:8 μακράν
- Joshua 3:4 μακράν
- Judges 18:7 μακράν
- 1 Kings 8:46 μακράν
- 2 Chronicles 6:36 μακράν
- Ezra 14:13 μακράν
- Esther 9:20 μακράν
- Job 30:10 μακράν
- Psalms 21:2 μακράν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3112) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 44:4 μακράν When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
- Exodus 8:24 μακράν Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
- Exodus 33:7 μακράν Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
- Numbers 9:10 μακράν "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 13:8 μακράν you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
- Deuteronomy 14:24 μακράν If the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
- Deuteronomy 20:15 μακράν Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- Deuteronomy 30:11 μακράν For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
- Joshua 3:4 μακράν Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
- Joshua 3:16 μακράν that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Joshua 8:4 μακράν He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:
- Joshua 9:22 μακράν Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?
- Judges 18:7 μακράν Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
- Judges 18:28 μακράν There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.
- 1 Kings 8:46 μακράν If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
- 2 Chronicles 6:36 μακράν If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
- Ezra 14:13 μακράν
- Esther 9:20 μακράν Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,
- Job 30:10 μακράν They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And don't hesitate to spit in my face.
- Job 36:3 μακράν I will get my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- Psalms 21:2 μακράν You have given him his heart's desire, And have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
- Psalms 64:6 μακράν They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
- Psalms 118:155 μακράν
- Proverbs 2:16 μακράν To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
- Proverbs 4:24 μακράν Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- Proverbs 5:8 μακράν Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,
- Proverbs 13:19 μακράν Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, But fools detest turning from evil.
- Proverbs 15:29 μακράν Yahweh is far from the wicked, But he hears the prayer of the righteous.
- Proverbs 19:7 μακράν All the relatives of the poor shun him: How much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
- Proverbs 22:15 μακράν Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Proverbs 27:10 μακράν Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: Better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
- Proverbs 30:8 μακράν Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
- Isaiah 5:26 μακράν He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, And he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
- Isaiah 27:9 μακράν Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
- Isaiah 46:12 μακράν Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:
- Isaiah 57:9 μακράν You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to Sheol.
- Isaiah 57:19 μακράν I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.
- Isaiah 59:11 μακράν We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Isaiah 59:14 μακράν Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
- Ezekiel 6:12 μακράν He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.
- Ezekiel 11:15 μακράν Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession.
- Ezekiel 12:22 μακράν Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
- Ezekiel 22:5 μακράν Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.
- Joel 4:8 μακράν
- Micah 4:3 μακράν And he will judge between many peoples, And will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, Neither will they learn war any more.
- Zechariah 6:15 μακράν Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh; and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your God."'"
- Zechariah 10:9 μακράν I will sow them among the peoples; And they will remember me in far countries; And they will live with their children, and will return.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3112) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.