μεγαλωσύνη
majesty
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3172 appears in the Book of Jude — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Jude
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.
μεγαλωσυνη — transliterated megalōsýnē — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “majesty.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 3 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Hebrews (67% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Hebrews 1:3. Sharing its root, it stands alongside μεγας, μεγαλαυχεω and μεγαλειος. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3172 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 2 verses · 67%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 33%
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: Majesty 3×
- American Standard Version: Majesty 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Majesty 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Majesty 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3172 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3172 across 3 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 G3172 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3172 across 3 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.
- majesty
Word origin
Derived from μεγας (mégas) (G3173) — great.
From G3173 ; greatness that is (figuratively) divinity (often God himself): - majesty.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3172 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μεγαλωσύνης megalōsýnēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 1:3 | 2 |
| μεγαλωσύνη megalōsýnē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Jude 1:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3172, 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
- μεγαλειος megaleîos G3167 magnificent
- μεγαλοπρεπης megaloprepḗs G3169 magnificent
- μεγαλυνω megalýnō G3170 to magnify
- μεγαλως megálōs G3171 greatly
- μεγεθος mégethos G3174 greatness
- μεγιστος mégistos G3176 greatest
- μειζων meízōn G3187 greater
- μηκος mēkos G3372 length
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μεγαλωσυνη appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 7 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 32:3 μεγαλωσύνη
- 2 Samuel 7:21 μεγαλωσύνη
- 1 Chronicles 17:19 μεγαλωσύνη
- Psalms 78:11 μεγαλωσύνη
- Proverbs 18:10 μεγαλωσύνη
- Daniel 2:20 μεγαλωσύνη
- Zechariah 11:3 μεγαλωσύνη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3172) 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 32:3 μεγαλωσύνη For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh: Ascribe greatness to our God.
- 2 Samuel 7:21 μεγαλωσύνη For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
- 2 Samuel 7:23 μεγαλωσύνη What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
- 1 Chronicles 17:19 μεγαλωσύνη Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all [these] great things.
- 1 Chronicles 22:5 μεγαλωσύνη David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11 μεγαλωσύνη Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
- Psalms 78:11 μεγαλωσύνη They forgot his doings, His wondrous works that he had shown them.
- Psalms 144:3 μεγαλωσύνη Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
- Psalms 144:6 μεγαλωσύνη Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
- Psalms 150:2 μεγαλωσύνη Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
- Proverbs 18:10 μεγαλωσύνη The name of Yahweh is a strong tower: The righteous run to him, and are safe.
- Daniel 2:20 μεγαλωσύνη Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.
- Daniel 4:29 μεγαλωσύνη At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Zechariah 11:3 μεγαλωσύνη A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3172) 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.
