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Lexicon :: Strong's G3303 - men

Aa
μέν
Transliteration
men (Key)
Pronunciation
men
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Part of Speech
particle
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary particle
mGNT
179x in 2 unique form(s)
TR
193x in 3 unique form(s)
LXX
47x in 2 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

μέν mén, men; a primary particle; properly, indicative of affirmation or concession (in fact); usually followed by a contrasted clause with G1161 (this one, the former, etc.):—even, indeed, so, some, truly, verily. Often compounded with other particles in an intensive or asseverative sense.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 193x

The KJV translates Strong's G3303 in the following manner: indeed (22x), verily (14x), truly (12x), not translated (142x), miscellaneous (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 193x
The KJV translates Strong's G3303 in the following manner: indeed (22x), verily (14x), truly (12x), not translated (142x), miscellaneous (3x).
  1. truly, certainly, surely, indeed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μέν mén, men; a primary particle; properly, indicative of affirmation or concession (in fact); usually followed by a contrasted clause with G1161 (this one, the former, etc.):—even, indeed, so, some, truly, verily. Often compounded with other particles in an intensive or asseverative sense.
STRONGS G3303:
μέν, a weakened form of μήν, and hence, properly a particle of affirmation: truly, certainly, surely, indeed — its affirmative force being weakened, yet retained most in Ionic, Epic, and Herodotus, and not wholly lost in Attic and Hellenistic writers (μέν 'confirmative'; cf. 4 Macc. 18:18). Owing to this its original meaning it adds a certain force to the terms and phrases with which it is connected, and thus contrasts them with or distinguishes them from others. Accordingly, it takes on the character of a concessive and very often of a merely distinctive particle, which stands related to a following δέ or other adversative conjunction, either expressed or understood, and in a sentence composed of several members is so placed as to point out the first member, to which a second, marked by an adversative particle, is added or opposed. It corresponds to the Latinquidem, indeed, German zwar (i. e. properly,zu Wahre, i. e. in Wahrheit (in truth)); but often its force cannot be reproduced. Its use in classic Greek is exhibited by Devarius i., p. 122ff, and Klotz on the same ii. 2, p. 656ff; Viger i., p. 531ff, and Hermann on the same, p. 824f; others; Matthiae, § 622; Kühner, ii., p. 806ff, § 527ff; p. 691ff; § 503; (Jelf, § 729, 1, 2; § 764ff); Passow, and Pape (and Liddell and Scott), under the word.
I. Examples in which the particle μέν is followed in another member by an adversative particle expressed. Of these examples there are two kinds:
1. those in which μέν has a concessive force, and δέ (or ἀλλά) introduces a restriction, correction, or amplification of what has been said in the former member, indeed... but, yet, on the other hand. Persons or things, or predications about either, are thus correlated: Matthew 3:11, cf. Mark 1:8 (where T Tr WH omit; L brackets μέν); Luke 3:16 (where the meaning is, 'I indeed baptize as well as he who is to come after me, but his baptism is of greater efficacy'; cf. Acts 1:5); Matthew 9:37 and Luke 10:2 (although the harvest is great, yet the laborers are few); Matthew 17:11f (rightly indeed is it said that Elijah will come and work the ἀποκατάστασις, but he has already come to bring about this very thing); Matthew 20:23; Matthew 22:8; Matthew 23:28; John 16:22; John 19:32; Acts 21:39 (although I am a Jew, and not that Egyptian, yet etc.); Acts 22:3 (R); Romans 2:25; Romans 6:11; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 9:24; 1 Corinthians 11:14; 1 Corinthians 12:20 (R G L brackets Tr brackets WH marginal reading); 1 Corinthians 15:51 (R. G L brackets); 2 Corinthians 10:10; Hebrews 3:5; 1 Peter 1:20, and often. μέν and δέ are added to articles and pronouns: οἱ μέν... οἱ δέ, the one indeed... but the other (although the latter, yet the former), Philippians 1:16f (according to the critical text); ὅς μέν... ὅς δέ, the one indeed, but (yet) the other etc. Jude 1:22f; τινες μέν... τινες δέ καί, Philippians 1:15; with conjunctions: εἰ μέν οὖν, if indeed then, if therefore... εἰ δέ, but if, Acts 18:14f R G; Acts 19:38f; 25:11 L T Tr WH (εἰ μέν οὖν... νυνί δέ, Hebrews 8:4f (here R G εἰ μέν γάρ)); εἰ μέν... νῦν δέ, if indeed (conceding or supposing this or that to be the case)... but now, Hebrews 11:15; κἄν μέν... εἰ δέ μήγε, Luke 13:9; μέν γάρ... δέ, 1 Corinthians 11:7; Romans 2:25; μέν οὖν... δέ, Luke 3:18; εἰς μέν... εἰς δέ, Hebrews 9:6f μέν... ἀλλά, indeed... but, although... yet, Romans 14:20; 1 Corinthians 14:17; μέν... πλήν, Luke 22:22. (Cf. Winers Grammar, 443 (413); Buttmann, § 149, 12 a.)
2. those in which μέν loses its concessive force and serves only to distinguish, but δέ retains its adversative power: Luke 11:48; Acts 13:36; Acts 23:8 (here WH text omits; Tr brackets μέν); 1 Corinthians 1:12, 23; Philippians 3:1; Hebrews 7:8; ἀπό μέν... ἐπί δέ, 2 Timothy 4:4; μέν οὖν (German er nun (he, then))... οἱ δέ, Acts 28:5f; ὅς μέν... ὅς δέ, and one... and another, 1 Corinthians 11:21; οἱ μέν... δέ (he, on the contrary), Hebrews 7:20f, 23f; ἐκεῖνοι μέν οὖν... ἡμεῖς δέ, 1 Corinthians 9:25; εἰ μέν οὖν... εἰ δέ, Acts 18:14f (R G); Acts 19:38; 25:11 (L T Tr WH); and this happens chiefly when what has already been included in the words immediately preceding is separated into parts, so that the adversative particle contrasts that which the writer especially desires to contrast: ἑκάστῳ... τοῖς μέν ζητοῦσιν... τοῖς δέ ἐξ ἐριθείας etc. Romans 2:6-8; πᾶς... ἐκεῖνοι μέν... ἡμεῖς δέ etc. 1 Corinthians 9:25; add, Matthew 25:14f, 33; Romans 5:16; Romans 11:22.
3. μέν... δέ serve only to distribute a sentence into clauses: both... and; not only... but also; as well... as: John 16:9-11; Romans 8:17; Jude 1:8; πρῶτον μέν... ἔπειτα δέ, Hebrews 7:2; μέν... δέ... δέ, some... some... some, Matthew 13:8; (ἕκαστος... μέν... δέ, each... one... another, 1 Corinthians 7:7 L T Tr WH); ὅς μέν... ὅς δέ, one... another, Matthew 21:35; Acts 17:32; 1 Corinthians 7:7 (R G); οἱ μέν... ἄλλοι (L οἱ) δέ... ἕτεροι δέ, Matthew 16:14; μέν γάρ... ἄλλῳ δέ... ἑτέρῳ δέ (here T Tr WH omit; L brackets δέ), 1 Corinthians 12:8-10; μέν... followed by ἀλλά δέ (three times, Matthew 13:4f, 7f; ἄλλος μέν, ἄλλος δέ, 1 Corinthians 15:39; τοῦτο μέν... τοῦτο δέ, on the one hand... on the other; partly... partly, Hebrews 10:33, also found in secular authors, cf. Winer's Grammar, 142 (135). μέν is followed by another particle: ἔπειτα, John 11:6; 1 Corinthians 12:28; James 3:17; καί νῦν, Acts 26:4, 6; τά νῦν, Acts 17:30; πολύ (R G πολλῷ) μᾶλλον, Hebrews 12:9.
II. Examples in which μέν is followed neither by δέ nor by any other adversative particle (μέν 'solitarium'); cf. Winers Grammar, 575f (534f); Buttmann, 365f (313f) These examples are of various kinds; either
1. the antithesis is evident from the context; as, Colossians 2:23 (`have indeed a show of wisdom', but are folly (cf. Lightfoot, in the place cited)); μέν... σωτηρίαν, namely, but they themselves prevent their own salvation, Romans 10:1; τά μέν... δυνάμεσιν, namely, but ye do not hold to my apostolic authority, 2 Corinthians 12:12: ἄνθρωποι μέν (L T Tr WH omit μέν)... ὀμνύουσιν, namely, δέ Θεός καθ' ἑαυτοῦ ὀμνύει, Hebrews 6:16. Or,
2. the antithetic idea is brought out by a different turn of the sentence: Acts 19:4 (Rec.), where the expected second member, Ἰησοῦς δέ ἐστιν ἐρχόμενος, is wrapped up in τουτ' ἐστιν εἰς τόν Ἰησοῦν; Romans 11:13 ἐφ' ὅσον μέν κτλ., where the antithesis παραζήλω δέ κτλ. is contained in εἴπως παραζηλώσω; Romans 7:12 μέν νόμος κτλ., where the thought of the second member, 'but sin misuses the law,' is expressed in another forth in Romans 7:13ff by an anacoluthon, consisting of a change from the disjunctive to a conjunctive construction (cf. Herm. ad Vig., p. 839), we find μέν... τέ, Acts 27:21; μέν... καί, 1 Thessalonians 2:18; in distributions or partitions, Mark 4:4-8 (here R G μέν... δέ... καί... καί); Luke 8:5-8; or, finally, that member in which δέ would regularly follow immediately precedes (Herm. ad Vig., p. 839), Acts 28:22 (yet see Meyer at the passage; cf. Buttmann, § 149, 12 d.). Or
3. the writer, in using μέν, perhaps had in mind a second member to be introduced by δέ, but was drawn away from his intention by explanatory additions relating to the first member: thus Acts 3:13 (ὅν ὑμεῖς μένRec. omits this μέν — etc., where Θεός δέ ἤγειρεν ἐκ νεκρῶν, cf. Acts 3:15, should have followed); especially (as occasionally in classical Greek also) after πρῶτον μέν: Romans 1:8; Romans 3:2; 1 Corinthians 11:18; τόν μέν πρῶτον λόγον κτλ., where the antithesis τόν δέ δεύτερον λόγον κτλ. ought to have followed, Acts 1:1.
4. μέν οὖν (in Luke 11:28 T Tr WH μενοῦν), Latinquidem igitur, (English so then, now therefore, verily, etc.) (where μέν is confirmatory of the matter in hand, and οὖν marks an inference or transition, cf. Klotz ad Devar. ii. 2, p. 662f; (Herm. Vig., pp. 540f, 842; Buttmann, § 149, 16)): Acts 1:18; Acts 5:41; Acts 13:4; Acts 17:30; Acts 23:22; Acts 26:9; 1 Corinthians 6:4, 7 (here T omits Tr brackets οὖν); ἀλλά μέν οὖν, Philippians 3:8 G L Tr; εἰ μέν οὖν, Hebrews 7:11.
5. μέν solitarium has a concessive and restrictive force, indeed, verily (German freilich) (cf. Klotz, Devar. ii. 2, p. 522; Hartung, Partikeln, ii. 404): εἰ μέν, 2 Corinthians 11:4; μέν οὖν now then, (German nun freilich), Hebrews 9:1 (cf. Buttmann, as above. On the use of μέν οὖν in the classics cf. Cope's note on Aristotle, rhet. 2, 9, 11.)
6. μενουγγε, which see in its place.
III. As respects the position of the particle: it never stands at the beginning of a sentence, but yet as near the beginning as possible; generally in the second or third place, by preference between the article and noun (examples in which it occupies the fourth place are Acts 3:21; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Colossians 2:23; Acts 14:12 Rec.; the fifth place, Ephesians 4:11; Romans 16:19 R WH brackets; 1 Corinthians 2:15 R G; (John 16:22, see below)); moreover, in the midst of a clause also it attaches itself to a word the force of which is to be strengthened, as καί ὑμεῖς οὖν λύπην μέν νῦν ἔχετε (but L T Tr WH... οὖν νῦν μέν λύπην), John 16:22; cf. Winers Grammar, § 61, 6. The word is not found in the Rev. or in the Epistles of John.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
3:11; 9:37; 13:4; 13:7; 13:8; 16:14; 17:11; 20:23; 21:35; 22:8; 23:28; 25:14; 25:33
Mark
1:8; 4:4; 4:5; 4:6; 4:7; 4:8
Luke
3:16; 3:18; 8:5; 8:6; 8:7; 8:8; 10:2; 11:28; 11:48; 13:9; 22:22
John
11:6; 16:9; 16:10; 16:11; 16:22; 16:22; 16:22; 19:32
Acts
1:1; 1:5; 1:18; 3:13; 3:15; 3:21; 5:41; 13:4; 13:36; 14:12; 17:30; 17:30; 17:32; 18:14; 18:14; 19:4; 19:38; 19:38; 21:39; 22:3; 23:8; 23:22; 25:11; 25:11; 26:4; 26:6; 26:9; 27:21; 28:5; 28:22
Romans
1:8; 2:6; 2:7; 2:8; 2:25; 2:25; 3:2; 5:16; 6:11; 7:12; 7:13; 8:17; 10:1; 11:13; 11:22; 14:20; 16:19
1 Corinthians
1:12; 1:18; 1:23; 2:15; 6:4; 6:7; 7:7; 7:7; 9:24; 9:25; 9:25; 11:7; 11:14; 11:18; 11:21; 12:8; 12:9; 12:10; 12:20; 12:28; 14:17; 15:39; 15:51
2 Corinthians
10:1; 10:10; 11:4; 12:12
Ephesians
4:11
Philippians
1:15; 1:16; 3:1; 3:8
Colossians
2:23; 2:23
1 Thessalonians
2:18
2 Timothy
4:4
Hebrews
3:5; 6:16; 7:2; 7:8; 7:11; 7:20; 7:23; 8:4; 9:1; 9:6; 10:33; 11:15; 12:9
James
3:17
1 Peter
1:20
Jude
1:8; 1:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3303 matches the Greek μέν (men),
which occurs 179 times in 179 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 3 / 4 (Rom 8:10–2Ti 1:10)

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:10 -

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit[fn] gives life[fn] because of righteousness.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:17 -

and if children, also heirs ​— ​heirs of God and coheirs with Christ ​— ​if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:21 -

Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:1 -

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them[fn] is for their salvation.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:13 -

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:22 -

Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you ​— ​if you remain in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28 -

Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 -

One person believes he may eat anything, while one who is weak eats only vegetables.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:5 -

One person judges one day to be more important than another day. Someone else judges every day to be the same. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:20 -

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make someone fall by what he eats.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:12 -

What I am saying is this: One of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:18 -

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:23 -

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:4 -

For whenever someone says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not acting like mere humans?

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:3 -

Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:4 -

So if you have such matters, do you appoint as your judges those who have no standing in the church?

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:7 -

As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:7 -

I wish that all people were as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one person has this gift, another has that.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:24 -

Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:25 -

Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable crown.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:7 -

A man should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God. So too, woman is the glory of man.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:14 -

Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him,

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:18 -

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:21 -

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper.[fn] So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:8 -

to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit,

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:20 -

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:28 -

And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:17 -

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:39 -

Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:40 -

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones.

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:16 -

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things?

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:17 -

For he welcomed our appeal and, being very diligent, went out to you by his own choice.

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:1 -

Now concerning the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you.

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:1 -

Now I, Paul, myself, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ ​— ​I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:10 -

For it is said, “His letters are weighty and powerful, but his physical presence is weak and his public speaking amounts to nothing.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:4 -

For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you had not received, or a different gospel, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:1 -

Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:12 -

The signs of an apostle were performed with unfailing endurance among you, including signs and wonders and miracles.

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:8 -

But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things[fn] that by nature are not gods.

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:23 -

But the one by the slave was born as a result of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born through promise.

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:24 -

These things are being taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery ​— ​this is Hagar.

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:11 -

And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:15 -

To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of good will.

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:16 -

These preach out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:23 -

Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things go with me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:1 -

In addition, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write to you again about this is no trouble for me and is a safeguard for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:13 -

Brothers and sisters, I do not[fn] consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:23 -

Although these have a reputation for wisdom by promoting self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:18 -

So we wanted to come to you ​— ​even I, Paul, time and again ​— ​but Satan hindered us.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:10 -

This has now been made evident through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.


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