μεγαλεῖος
magnificent
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.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3167 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Acts 1 verse
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.
μεγαλειος — transliterated megaleîos — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “magnificent.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. A true hapax — its single appearance is Acts 2:11. Related forms include μεγας, μεγαλαυχεω and μεγαλοπρεπης. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3167 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.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
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: Great things 1×, Wonderful works 1×
- American Standard Version: Great things 1×, Mighty works 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wonders 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Great things 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3167 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3167 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3167 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3167 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- magnificent, excellent, splendid, wonderful
Word origin
Derived from μεγας (mégas) (G3173) — great.
From G3173 ; magnificent that is (neuter plural as noun) a conspicuous favor or (subjectively) perfection : - great things wonderful works.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3167, 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
- μεγαλαυχεω megalauchéō G3166 to boast greatly
- μεγαλοπρεπης megaloprepḗs G3169 magnificent
- μεγαλυνω megalýnō G3170 to magnify
- μεγαλως megálōs G3171 greatly
- μεγαλωσυνη megalōsýnē G3172 majesty
- μεγεθος mégethos G3174 greatness
- μεγιστος mégistos G3176 greatest
- μειζων meízōn G3187 greater
- μηκος mēkos G3372 length
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μεγαλειος appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 11:2 μεγαλεῖος
- Psalms 70:19 μεγαλεῖος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3167) 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.
- Deuteronomy 11:2 μεγαλεῖος Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
- Psalms 70:19 μεγαλεῖος
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3167) 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.
