μνᾶ
pound
‘pound’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where G3414 appears in the Nominative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 3 verses
- Luke 19:16 μνᾶ μνᾶς n nom sg fem n acc pl fem The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
- Luke 19:18 μνᾶ μνᾶς n nom sg fem n acc pl fem "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'
- Luke 19:20 μνᾶ n nom sg fem Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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.
The Greek noun μνα centers on the idea of “pound.” Luke dominates its distribution — 6 of 6 verses. Spanning 6 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. The King James Version usually renders it “pounds,” while modern versions prefer “minas” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3414 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 6 verses 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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 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: Pounds 5×, Pound 4×
- American Standard Version: Pounds 5×, Pound 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mina 4×, Minas 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Minas 5×, Mina 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3414 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3414 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3414 across 8 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3414 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- in the OT, a weight of 300 shekels was one pound
- In the NT, a weight and sum of money equal to 100 drachmae, one talent was 100 pounds, a pound equalled 10 1/3 oz. (300…
Word origin
Origin: of Latin origin
Of Latin origin; a mna (that is mina ) a certain weight : - pound.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3414 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μνᾶς mnâs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 19:13 | 5 |
| μνᾶ mnâ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 19:16 | 3 |
| μνᾶν mnân | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 19:24 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μνα appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 3 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 10:17 μνᾶ
- Ezra 2:69 μνᾶ
- Ezekiel 45:12 μνᾶ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3414) 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.
- 1 Kings 10:17 μνᾶ [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- Ezra 2:69 μνᾶ they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
- Ezra 17:71 μνᾶ
- Ezra 17:72 μνᾶ
- Ezekiel 45:12 μνᾶ The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3414) 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.
