μυρίας
ten thousand
‘ten thousand’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G3461 appears in the Nominative case, across 2 books. 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.
Acts 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 5:11 μυριάδες μυριάδων adj nom pl fem adj gen pl fem I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
- Revelation 9:16 δισμυριάδες μυριάδων adj nom pl fem adj gen pl fem The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.
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.
μυριας — transliterated myriás — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “ten thousand.” It first appears in Luke 12:1. With 7 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (29% of all occurrences). Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3461 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 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 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 2 verses 29%
- Revelation 2 verses 29%
- Luke 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 43%
- Johannine 2 verses · 29%
- Revelation 2 verses · 29%
- Gospels 1 verse · 14%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 14%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 14%
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: Thousand 3×
- American Standard Version: Ten thousand 2×, Times ten thousand 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Myriads 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Myriads 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3461 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G3461 across 9 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3461 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3461 across 9 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 3 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.
- ten thousand
- an innumerable multitude, an unlimited number
- innumerable hosts
Word origin
Derived from μυριοι (mýrioi) (G3463) — countless.
From G3463 ; a ten thousand ; by extension a myriad or indefinite number : - ten thousand.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3461 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μυριάδων myriádōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Luke 12:1 | 3 |
| μυριάδες myriádes | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 21:20 | 2 |
| μυριάσιν myriásin | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Hebrews 12:22 | 2 |
| δισμυριάδες dismyriádes | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 9:16 | 1 |
| μυριάδας myriádas | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 19:19 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μυριας appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 12 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:60 μυριάς
- Exodus 39:3 μυριάς
- Leviticus 26:8 μυριάς
- Numbers 10:35 μυριάς
- Deuteronomy 32:30 μυριάς
- 1 Samuel 18:2 μυριάς
- Ezra 2:64 μυριάς
- Psalms 3:7 μυριάς
- Song of Solomon 5:10 μυριάς
- Daniel 3:39 μυριάς
- Jonah 4:11 μυριάς
- Micah 6:7 μυριάς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3461) 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 24:60 μυριάς They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
- Exodus 39:3 μυριάς They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
- Leviticus 26:8 μυριάς Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
- Numbers 10:35 μυριάς It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you.
- Deuteronomy 32:30 μυριάς How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?
- Deuteronomy 33:2 μυριάς He said, Yahweh came from Sinai, Rose from Seir to them; He shined forth from Mount Paran, He came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
- Deuteronomy 33:17 μυριάς The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his; His horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, They are the thousands of Manasseh.
- 1 Samuel 18:2 μυριάς Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.
- 1 Samuel 18:3 μυριάς Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
- 1 Samuel 21:12 μυριάς David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
- 1 Samuel 29:5 μυριάς Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?
- Ezra 2:64 μυριάς The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
- Ezra 2:69 μυριάς 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 17:66 μυριάς
- Ezra 17:71 μυριάς
- Ezra 17:72 μυριάς
- Psalms 3:7 μυριάς Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 90:7 μυριάς For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- Song of Solomon 5:10 μυριάς My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.
- Daniel 3:39 μυριάς
- Daniel 7:10 μυριάς A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
- Jonah 4:11 μυριάς Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
- Micah 6:7 μυριάς Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3461) 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.
