μακρός
long
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3117 appears in the Book of Luke — 3 distinct verses. 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.
Luke
- Luke 15:13 μακράν adj acc sg fem Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
- Luke 19:12 μακράν adj acc sg fem He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
- Luke 20:47 μακρὰ adj acc pl neut who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
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.
μακρος — transliterated makrós — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “long.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. More than half of its appearances fall in Luke. It first appears in Mark 12:40. Related forms include μηκος, μεχρι and μηκυνω. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3117 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 80%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 80%
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: Long 3×, Far 2×
- American Standard Version: Far 2×, Long 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Distant 1×, Make lengthy prayers 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Distant 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3117 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3117 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3117 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3117 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- long
Word origin
Derived from μηκος (mēkos) (G3372) — length.
From G3372 ; long (in place [ distant ] or time [neuter plural]): - far long.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3117 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μακράν makrán | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 15:13 | 2 |
| μακρὰ makrà | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Mark 12:40 | 2 |
| μακρὰν makràn | Adverb | Acts 2:39 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3117, 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
Derived from this word
- μακραν makrán G3112 far off
- μακροθεν makróthen G3113 afar
- μακροθυμως makrothymṓs G3116 patiently
- μακροχρονιος makrochrónios G3118 long-lived
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μακρος appears 16 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 11 books.
- 16
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 9:13 μακρός
- Deuteronomy 19:6 μακρός
- 2 Samuel 7:19 μακρός
- 1 Chronicles 17:17 μακρός
- Ezra 6:6 μακρός
- Job 11:9 μακρός
- Proverbs 7:19 μακρός
- Ecclesiastes 7:24 μακρός
- Isaiah 5:18 μακρός
- Jeremiah 2:5 μακρός
- Ezekiel 12:27 μακρός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3117) 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.
- Numbers 9:13 μακρός But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 μακρός lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
- 2 Samuel 7:19 μακρός This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh!
- 2 Samuel 15:17 μακρός The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
- 1 Chronicles 17:17 μακρός This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
- Ezra 6:6 μακρός Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, be you far from there:
- Job 11:9 μακρός The measure of it is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
- Proverbs 7:19 μακρός For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
- Proverbs 28:16 μακρός A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
- Ecclesiastes 7:24 μακρός That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
- Isaiah 5:18 μακρός Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;
- Jeremiah 2:5 μακρός thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
- Jeremiah 36:23 μακρός It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
- Jeremiah 38:10 μακρός Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
- Ezekiel 12:27 μακρός Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
- Ezekiel 17:3 μακρός and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3117) 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.
