μῆκος
length
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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3372 appears in the Book of Revelation — 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.
Revelation
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, μηκος (mēkos) means “length.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Ephesians (50% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Ephesians 3:18. From the same root come μεγας, μεγαλαυχεω and μεγαλειος. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3372 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 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 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ephesians 1 verse 50%
- Revelation 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Johannine 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
- Revelation 1 verse · 50%
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: Length 3×
- American Standard Version: Length 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Length 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Length 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3372 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3372 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3372 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3372 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.
- length
Word origin
Derived from μεγας (mégas) (G3173) — great.
Probably akin to G3173 ; length (literally or figuratively): - length.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3372, 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
- μεγαλωσυνη megalōsýnē G3172 majesty
- μεγεθος mégethos G3174 greatness
- μεγιστος mégistos G3176 greatest
- μειζων meízōn G3187 greater
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 14 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μηκος appears 83 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 78 verses in 11 books.
- 83
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 78
- 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
- Genesis 6:15 μῆκος
- Exodus 25:10 μῆκος
- Deuteronomy 3:11 μῆκος
- Judges 3:16 μῆκος
- 1 Kings 6:2 μῆκος
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 μῆκος
- Proverbs 3:2 μῆκος
- Jeremiah 52:22 μῆκος
- Ezekiel 40:7 μῆκος
- Daniel 4:4 μῆκος
- Zechariah 2:6 μῆκος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3372) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 78. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:15 μῆκος This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 12:6 μῆκος Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
- Genesis 13:17 μῆκος Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you."
- Exodus 25:10 μῆκος "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
- Exodus 25:17 μῆκος You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Exodus 25:23 μῆκος "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.
- Exodus 26:2 μῆκος The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
- Exodus 26:8 μῆκος The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
- Exodus 26:13 μῆκος The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Exodus 27:1 μῆκος "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 27:9 μῆκος "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 27:11 μῆκος Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 27:18 μῆκος The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 28:16 μῆκος It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.
- Exodus 30:2 μῆκος Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 36:16 μῆκος He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
- Exodus 37:2 μῆκος He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it round about.
- Exodus 37:16 μῆκος He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
- Deuteronomy 3:11 μῆκος (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
- Judges 3:16 μῆκος Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.
- 1 Kings 6:2 μῆκος The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:3 μῆκος The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth of it before the house.
- 1 Kings 6:20 μῆκος Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
- 1 Kings 7:14 μῆκος He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
- 1 Kings 7:39 μῆκος He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
- 1 Kings 7:43 μῆκος and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 μῆκος Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 μῆκος The porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:8 μῆκος He made the most holy house: the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
- 2 Chronicles 3:11 μῆκος The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 μῆκος Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.
- 2 Chronicles 6:13 μῆκος (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
- 2 Chronicles 24:13 μῆκος So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.
- Proverbs 3:2 μῆκος For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to you.
- Proverbs 3:16 μῆκος Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
- Proverbs 16:13 μῆκος Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
- Jeremiah 52:22 μῆκος A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.
- Ezekiel 40:7 μῆκος Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:8 μῆκος He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:18 μῆκος The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
- Ezekiel 40:20 μῆκος The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured the length of it and the breadth of it.
- Ezekiel 40:21 μῆκος The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:25 μῆκος There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:29 μῆκος and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:33 μῆκος and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:36 μῆκος the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:42 μῆκος There were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
- Ezekiel 40:47 μῆκος He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
- Ezekiel 40:49 μῆκος The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
- Ezekiel 41:2 μῆκος The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3372) 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.
