μόνον
only
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
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G3440 appears in the Book of James — 2 distinct verses. 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.
James
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 verb μονον centers on the idea of “only.” First canonically at Matthew 5:47, it enters the text early. It turns up in 66 verses across 19 books, a moderately common footprint. It clusters with μονος, μονογενης and μονοφθαλμος under a shared root. 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 G3440 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 →
- 66
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 66 distinct verses.
- 19 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 19 of 27 New Testament books.
- #251
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 251 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 66 occurrences in the concordance →
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 66 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 35 verses · 53%
- Gospels 16 verses · 24%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 14%
- Johannine 7 verses · 11%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 3%
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: Only 59×, Alone 3×
- American Standard Version: Only 61×, Alone 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Only 46×, Just 5×, Alone 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Only 59×, Only this 4×, Alone 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3440 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3440 across 66 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3440 across 60 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear 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 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3440 across 66 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.
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.
- only, alone, but
Word origin
Derived from μονος (mónos) (G3441) — alone.
Neuter of G3441 as adverb; merely : - alone but only.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3440 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μόνον mónon | Adverb | Matthew 5:47 | 65 |
| Μόνον Mónon | Adverb | Philippians 1:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3440, 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
- μονογενης monogenḗs G3439 only
- μονοφθαλμος monóphthalmos G3442 one-eyed
- μονοω monóō G3443 to forsake
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μονον appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 7 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- 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
- Genesis 2:18 μόνον
- Exodus 12:16 μόνον
- Deuteronomy 22:25 μόνον
- Judges 6:37 μόνον
- 2 Chronicles 18:30 μόνον
- Esther 1:16 μόνον
- Job 2:6 μόνον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3440) 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 2:18 μόνον Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 19:8 μόνον See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
- Genesis 24:8 μόνον If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
- Genesis 27:13 μόνον His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
- Genesis 34:22 μόνον Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 34:23 μόνον Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
- Genesis 47:22 μόνον Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.
- Genesis 47:26 μόνον Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.
- Exodus 12:16 μόνον In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
- Deuteronomy 22:25 μόνον But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:
- Judges 6:37 μόνον behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.
- Judges 6:39 μόνον Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 6:40 μόνον God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
- 2 Chronicles 18:30 μόνον Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
- Esther 1:16 μόνον Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples who are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
- Job 2:6 μόνον Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
- Job 19:3 μόνον You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3440) 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.
