μηρός
thigh
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3382 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.
Revelation 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.
“thigh” is the headline sense of the Greek noun μηρος (mērós). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Revelation, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Revelation 19:16. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3382 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
- Revelation 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.
- Johannine 1 verse · 100%
- Revelation 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: Thigh 1×
- American Standard Version: Thigh 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Thigh 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thigh 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3382 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3382 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3382 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3382 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.
- thigh
Word origin
Origin: perhaps a primary word
Perhaps a primary word; a thigh : - thigh.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μηρος appears 32 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 30 verses in 10 books.
- 32
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 30
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:2 μηρός
- Exodus 28:42 μηρός
- Numbers 5:21 μηρός
- Deuteronomy 28:57 μηρός
- Judges 3:16 μηρός
- 2 Kings 16:14 μηρός
- Psalms 44:4 μηρός
- Song of Solomon 3:8 μηρός
- Ezekiel 7:17 μηρός
- Daniel 2:32 μηρός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3382) 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 24:2 μηρός Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
- Genesis 24:9 μηρός The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
- Genesis 32:26 μηρός The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
- Genesis 32:32 μηρός Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
- Genesis 32:33 μηρός
- Genesis 46:26 μηρός All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
- Genesis 47:29 μηρός The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,
- Genesis 49:10 μηρός The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
- Genesis 50:23 μηρός Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.
- Exodus 28:42 μηρός You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:
- Exodus 32:27 μηρός He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor."
- Numbers 5:21 μηρός then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, 'Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
- Numbers 5:22 μηρός and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'
- Numbers 5:27 μηρός When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
- Deuteronomy 28:57 μηρός and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
- Judges 3:16 μηρός Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.
- Judges 3:21 μηρός Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:
- Judges 8:30 μηρός Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.
- Judges 15:8 μηρός He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
- Judges 19:1 μηρός It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
- Judges 19:18 μηρός He said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I went to Bethlehem Judah: and I am [now] going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.
- 2 Kings 16:14 μηρός The brazen altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar.
- 2 Kings 19:23 μηρός By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
- Psalms 44:4 μηρός You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
- Song of Solomon 3:8 μηρός They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, Because of fear in the night.
- Song of Solomon 7:2 μηρός Your body is like a round goblet, No mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, Set about with lilies.
- Ezekiel 7:17 μηρός All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
- Ezekiel 21:12 μηρός Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
- Ezekiel 47:4 μηρός Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the loins.
- Daniel 2:32 μηρός As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3382) 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.
