μόνος
alone
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3441 appears in the Book of Colossians — 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.
Colossians
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, μονος (mónos) means “alone.” First canonically at Matthew 4:4, it enters the text early. With 46 verses in 16 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. From the same root come μενω, μναομαι and μονη. Dig into 46-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3441 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 →
- 46
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 46 distinct verses.
- 16 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
- #326
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 326 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 46 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 46 distinct verses.
- Gospels 27 verses · 59%
- Pauline corpus 14 verses · 30%
- Johannine 11 verses · 24%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 2%
- Revelation 1 verse · 2%
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 23×, Alone 21×, Themselves 2×
- American Standard Version: Alone 22×, Only 18×
- Berean Standard Bible: Only 23×, Alone 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Only 24×, Alone 22×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3441 across 47 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3441 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G3441 across 43 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3441 across 49 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.
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.
- alone (without a companion), forsaken, destitute of help, alone, only, merely
Word origin
Derived from μενω (ménō) (G3306) — to remain.
Probably from G3306 ; remaining that is sole or single ; by implication mere : - alone only by themselves.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G3441 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μόνος mónos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 14:23 | 20 |
| μόνον mónon | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 9:8 | 7 |
| μόνῳ mónō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 4:4 | 7 |
| μόνοι mónoi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | John 6:22 | 4 |
| μόνους mónous | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 9:2 | 3 |
| μόνας mónas | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Mark 4:10 | 2 |
| μόνου mónou | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 18:15 | 2 |
| μόνην mónēn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 10:40 | 1 |
| μόνοις mónois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 12:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3441, 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
Derived from this word
- μονογενης monogenḗs G3439 only
- μονον mónon G3440 only
- μονοφθαλμος monóphthalmos G3442 one-eyed
- μονοω monóō G3443 to forsake
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μονος appears 105 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 101 verses in 22 books.
- 105
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 101
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:11 μόνος
- Exodus 18:14 μόνος
- Leviticus 16:11 μόνος
- Numbers 11:14 μόνος
- Deuteronomy 1:9 μόνος
- Joshua 11:13 μόνος
- Judges 3:20 μόνος
- 1 Samuel 7:3 μόνος
- 2 Samuel 10:8 μόνος
- 1 Kings 8:39 μόνος
- 2 Kings 5:17 μόνος
- 2 Chronicles 6:30 μόνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3441) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 101. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:11 μόνος God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:17 μόνος To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 7:23 μόνος Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 21:28 μόνος Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
- Genesis 21:29 μόνος Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
- Genesis 32:17 μόνος He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
- Genesis 32:25 μόνος When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
- Genesis 42:38 μόνος He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
- Genesis 43:32 μόνος They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
- Genesis 44:20 μόνος We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'
- Exodus 18:14 μόνος When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"
- Exodus 18:18 μόνος You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
- Exodus 21:3 μόνος If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
- Exodus 21:4 μόνος If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exodus 22:19 μόνος "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 22:26 μόνος If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
- Exodus 24:2 μόνος Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
- Leviticus 16:11 μόνος "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
- Numbers 11:14 μόνος I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
- Numbers 11:17 μόνος I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.
- Numbers 12:2 μόνος They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it.
- Numbers 23:9 μόνος For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 1:9 μόνος I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
- Deuteronomy 1:12 μόνος How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- Deuteronomy 8:3 μόνος He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
- Deuteronomy 29:13 μόνος that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 32:12 μόνος Yahweh alone did lead him, There was no foreign god with him.
- Deuteronomy 33:28 μόνος Israel dwells in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
- Joshua 11:13 μόνος But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
- Joshua 22:20 μόνος Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man didn't perish alone in his iniquity.
- Judges 3:20 μόνος Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. He arose out of his seat.
- Judges 7:5 μόνος So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.
- Judges 10:16 μόνος They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 7:3 μόνος Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 7:4 μόνος Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
- 1 Samuel 21:2 μόνος David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.
- 2 Samuel 10:8 μόνος The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
- 2 Samuel 13:32 μόνος Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 13:33 μόνος Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.
- 2 Samuel 17:2 μόνος and I will come on him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him shall flee; and I will strike the king only;
- 2 Samuel 18:24 μόνος Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
- 2 Samuel 18:25 μόνος The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, and drew near.
- 2 Samuel 18:26 μόνος The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, Behold, [another] man running alone. The king said, He also brings news.
- 2 Samuel 20:21 μόνος The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
- 1 Kings 8:39 μόνος then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
- 1 Kings 12:20 μόνος It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
- 1 Kings 18:6 μόνος So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
- 1 Kings 18:7 μόνος As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?
- 1 Kings 18:22 μόνος Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.
- 1 Kings 19:10 μόνος He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3441) 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.
