English Bible words starting with M
684 meanings beginning with M, in alphabetical order. This is page 5 of 7. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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Meshach2 words
Meshech1 word
Meshelemiah1 word
Meshezabel1 word
Meshillemith1 word
Meshillemoth1 word
Meshobab1 word
Meshullam1 word
Meshullemeth1 word
mesopotamia3 words
- aramאֲרָםAram: the Aramean people, the kingdoms they held to Israel's north and east, and the country itself, which many English Bibles call Syria
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- Aram: a man's name, carried by three different men, one of them the ancestor the Aramean people are named after
- MesopotamiaΜεσοποταμίαMesopotamianot studied yet
- aram naharayimאֲרַם נַהֲרַיִםMesopotamianot studied yet
- aramאֲרָםAram: the Aramean people, the kingdoms they held to Israel's north and east, and the country itself, which many English Bibles call Syria
message5 words
- logosλόγοςa word, statement, or message: anything that is said, whether a single saying, a whole teaching, or, in its loaded Christian use, the message of the gospel itself.
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- an account or reckoning: a settling of the books, the tally a person must hand over for what they have done.
- a reason, ground, or basis: the cause behind an action, or the case a person makes to defend or explain it.
- a matter, affair, or thing: the issue under discussion, the case at hand.
- akoēἀκοήa report: the news or message that reaches someone by being heard, from a passing rumor to the proclaimed good news
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- hearing: the capacity to take in sound, the ears that receive it, or the act of listening
- angeliaἀγγελίαmessagenot studied yet
- kērugmaκήρυγμαa herald's public announcement: both the act of proclaiming a message aloud on someone else's authority and the message that gets proclaimed
- malakhutמַלְאָכוּתmessagenot studied yet
- logosλόγοςa word, statement, or message: anything that is said, whether a single saying, a whole teaching, or, in its loaded Christian use, the message of the gospel itself.
messenger4 words
- angelosἄγγελοςa messenger: a person sent to carry word or do an errand
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- an angel: a heavenly being who serves and speaks for God
- male'akhמַלְאָךְa messenger: someone sent by another to carry a message or do an errand on the sender's behalf, whether a human envoy or a heavenly being (an angel).
- apostolosἀπόστολοςone who is sent out with the authority of the one who sent him; a commissioned envoy
- tsirצִירan envoy: a person formally dispatched with a message on someone else's authority, most often between rulers or nations
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- a hinge: the pivot a door swings on
- a writhing pang: the seizing, doubling-over pain of labor, or that same pain brought on by dread
- angelosἄγγελοςa messenger: a person sent to carry word or do an errand
messiah3 words
- ChristosΧριστόςthe Anointed One: God's promised and appointed king and rescuer, fulfilled in Jesus
- mashi'aḥמָשִׁיחַthe anointed one: a person God has set apart for high office by pouring oil on him, above all the reigning king
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- anointed, rubbed with oil: the plain description of something smeared with oil
- MessiasΜεσσίαςMessiahnot studied yet
metalworkers1 word
- masgerמַסְגֵּרa smith: a skilled metalworker, named in the exile lists among the workers carried off from Jerusalem to Babylon
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- a prison: a place where someone is shut in and cannot get out unaided
- masgerמַסְגֵּרa smith: a skilled metalworker, named in the exile lists among the workers carried off from Jerusalem to Babylon
mete out3 words
- madadמָדַדto measure: to find or mark out the size, length, area, or amount of something against a standard.
- takhanתָּכַןto weigh or measure something against a fixed standard: to mete out a quantity, gauge a person's true worth, or come out right when tested
- metreōμετρέωto measure: to find the size or amount of something against a standard, and so to mete it out or size it up by that measure
Metheg-ammah1 word
methusael1 word
methuselah2 words
methushael1 word
Meunite1 word
Mezahab1 word
Mezobaite1 word
Mibhar1 word
Mibsam1 word
Mibzar1 word
Mica1 word
Micah1 word
Micaiah3 words
Michael2 words
Michal1 word
Michmash1 word
Michmethath1 word
Michri1 word
midair1 word
midday1 word
- tsoharצֹהַרnoon: the middle of the day, when the sun stands highest and the light is fullest.
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- an opening Noah was told to make near the top of the ark, whose exact form (window, roof, or light-shaft) is uncertain.
- tsoharצֹהַרnoon: the middle of the day, when the sun stands highest and the light is fullest.
Middin1 word
middle6 words
- mesosμέσοςthe middle: the central point of a space, group, or stretch of time, and so the position of being surrounded on all sides
- tavekhתָּוֶךְthe middle: the central part of something, or the space it encloses
- ḥetsiחֲצִיhalf: one of the two parts something splits into, or the point where it splits
- tikhonתִּיכוֹןmiddlenot studied yet
- ishonאִישׁוֹןthe pupil of the eye: the dark opening at its center, named as the one spot a person shields without thinking
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- the black heart of the night: the deepest, darkest point inside a stretch of darkness
midian2 words
midnight1 word
midst6 words
- mesosμέσοςthe middle: the central point of a space, group, or stretch of time, and so the position of being surrounded on all sides
- levלֵבthe heart: the hidden inner center of a person, where one thinks, decides, feels, and stands answerable to God
- tavekhתָּוֶךְthe middle: the central part of something, or the space it encloses
- qerevקֶרֶבthe inside of something: its interior, whether a body's organs, a person's hidden self, or the space within a group or place
- ḥetsiחֲצִיhalf: one of the two parts something splits into, or the point where it splits
Migdal-el1 word
Migdal-gad1 word
Migdol1 word
might10 words
- ischusἰσχύςstrength a person or being simply has: might held in reserve, whether or not it is being used at the moment
- me'odמְאֹדmuchness pushed to the limit: the quality of being abundant or forceful, used almost always to mean very or exceedingly
- ko'aḥכֹּחַstrength: the capacity to act, endure, or prevail, in body, in resources, or in might
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- a kind of lizard: an unclean crawling creature in the dietary law
- ozעֹזstrength exerted on behalf of someone or against opposition: the power to prevail and protect, overwhelmingly God's
- kratosκράτοςprevailing might: strength as it actually wins out and shows itself in force
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- dominion: sovereign rule held and exercised, the right and power to reign
mighty22 words
- gadolגָּדוֹלgreat: large in size, high in degree, or high in rank, depending on what it describes
- hupsēlosὑψηλόςhigh: standing up well above whatever surrounds it, as a mountain, a wall, or the height where God is enthroned
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- lofty in standing: set above other people, whether in what human beings admire or in a person's own estimate of himself
- dunatosδυνατόςable, powerful: having what it takes to bring something about
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- possible: able to be done or to happen
- ischurosἰσχυρόςstrong: possessing real, built-in force that grips, holds, and resists
- ayilאַיִלa chief or mighty man: a powerful leader of a people
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- a ram: an adult male sheep, especially one offered in sacrifice
- a projecting post or pillar framing a doorway or gateway
- a great tree, an oak or terebinth
mighty acts2 words
- gevurahגְּבוּרָהstrength to prevail: the power to overcome, and the mighty deeds that show it
- aretēἀρετήpraiseworthy greatness: the mighty acts and displayed splendor of God, the kind of thing his people are meant to announce out loud.
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- moral excellence: the quality that makes a person or a thing genuinely admirable and worth commending.
mighty man1 word
mighty savior1 word
mighty work1 word
- dunamisδύναμιςa mighty work: a deed that openly displays power, a miracle
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- power: the strength or ability to do something, especially God's effective power at work
- a power: a being or cosmic force that possesses power, including the heavenly bodies and spiritual powers
- meaning: the force a sound or word carries, what it signifies
- dunamisδύναμιςa mighty work: a deed that openly displays power, a miracle
Migron1 word
Mijamin1 word
Mikloth1 word
Mikneiah1 word
Miktam1 word
Milalai1 word
Milcah1 word
milcom1 word
- milkomמִלכֹּםMilcom: the national god of Ammon, the kingdom just east of the Jordan, whom Solomon is condemned for worshiping and Josiah for tolerating
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- Malcam: the name of a little-known Benjaminite man listed among the sons of Shaharaim in a tribal genealogy
- milkomמִלכֹּםMilcom: the national god of Ammon, the kingdom just east of the Jordan, whom Solomon is condemned for worshiping and Josiah for tolerating
mildew1 word
mile2 words
- stadiosστάδιοςa stade: the standard Greek unit of long distance, six hundred Greek feet, so roughly two hundred yards or an eighth of a Roman mile.
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- the running track: the straight, marked course where a Greek city held its footraces.
- milionμίλιονmilenot studied yet
- stadiosστάδιοςa stade: the standard Greek unit of long distance, six hundred Greek feet, so roughly two hundred yards or an eighth of a Roman mile.
Miletus1 word
military officer1 word
milk2 words
mill2 words
millet1 word
Millo1 word
millstone6 words
- lithosλίθοςa stone: a discrete piece of rock, from one small enough to throw to a shaped building block or a cut gem, as opposed to solid bedrock
- rekhevרֶכֶבa chariot, or chariots taken together as a fighting force
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- the upper stone of a hand mill, the heavy stone turned on top of the lower one to grind grain
- mulosμύλοςmillstonenot studied yet
- pelaḥפֶּלַחa piece cut or split off something larger: a slab, a slice, a chunk.
- reḥehרֵחֶהmillstonenot studied yet
mina3 words
mince1 word
mind15 words
- kardiaκαρδίαthe heart: the hidden center of the whole inner person, where a human being thinks, decides, feels, and stands before God.
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- the center or deep interior of a place or thing.
- psuchēψυχήlife: the individual life that animates a creature, the life a person can keep, lose, risk, or give up.
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- the inner self: the whole person as the seat of feeling, desire, love, and will.
- person: a human being counted as an individual, a living soul, somebody.
- the self that outlasts the body: the life God can keep through death, save, or destroy.
- levלֵבthe heart: the hidden inner center of a person, where one thinks, decides, feels, and stands answerable to God
- ru'aḥרוּחַthe unseen moving power felt in wind and breath: the air that blows, the breath that gives life, the inner drive of a person, and the empowering presence of God.
- dianoiaδιάνοιαthe mind: a person's power to understand and think, bound up with the heart rather than standing apart from it as pure intellect
- kardiaκαρδίαthe heart: the hidden center of the whole inner person, where a human being thinks, decides, feels, and stands before God.
minds1 word
mingle1 word
- aravעָרַבto mingle: to mix yourself in with others, joining or associating so that you become part of them
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- to stand surety: to put yourself or your property up as the guarantee for someone else's debt or safety
- aravעָרַבto mingle: to mix yourself in with others, joining or associating so that you become part of them
mingled1 word
- balalבָּלַלto mix or blend things into one another, especially flour worked together with oil
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- to give feed, to put out fodder for animals
- balalבָּלַלto mix or blend things into one another, especially flour worked together with oil
mingled people1 word
- erevעֵרֶבa mixed company: an assorted, largely foreign body of people mingled together with a nation
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- woof: the crosswise threads woven across the lengthwise warp in a piece of cloth
- erevעֵרֶבa mixed company: an assorted, largely foreign body of people mingled together with a nation
Miniamin1 word
minister11 words
- avadעָבַדto serve: to do directed labor on behalf of someone or something, whether working the soil, laboring for a master, or worshiping a god.
- latreuōλατρεύωto render the religious service a creature owes to a god: to worship, to serve God
- leitourgeōλειτουργέωto ministernot studied yet
- sharatשָׁרַתto wait on someone in trusted, honored service: to attend a person of rank or to minister before God
- diakoneōδιακονέωto serve someone by meeting their needs: to wait on them, look after them, or carry out a task on their behalf.
ministering2 words
ministers1 word
ministry5 words
- avodahעֲבֹדָהcultic service: the formal ministry at the sanctuary, and the prescribed rites of sacred occasions
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- labor: work done for another, whether freely given or forcibly imposed
- leitourgiaλειτουργίαappointed service offered to God, above all the formal work of a priest in worship, and by extension gifts or lives presented to him like a sacrifice
- diakoniaδιακονίαa commission carried out on behalf of another: the assigned work or ministry someone is charged to do, especially in the service of God
- latreiaλατρείαthe religious service owed to God: whether the whole worship he appointed for his people or a single act of devotion rendered to him
- sharetשָׁרֵתministrynot studied yet
- avodahעֲבֹדָהcultic service: the formal ministry at the sanctuary, and the prescribed rites of sacred occasions
Minni1 word
Minnith1 word
minstrel1 word
mint1 word
miracle5 words
- dunamisδύναμιςa mighty work: a deed that openly displays power, a miracle
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- power: the strength or ability to do something, especially God's effective power at work
- a power: a being or cosmic force that possesses power, including the heavenly bodies and spiritual powers
- meaning: the force a sound or word carries, what it signifies
- sēmeionσημεῖονa sign: a perceptible mark or event that points beyond itself to a meaning, an identity, or the action of God
- otאוֹתa sign: something tangible that points beyond itself so a person recognizes, remembers, or trusts what God has said or done
- mophetמוֹפֵתa God-given sign or wonder: a striking act, event, or person meant to point beyond itself and demand attention
- peleפֶּלֶאa wonder: an act or thing so far past what people can do or figure out that it can only be credited to God
- dunamisδύναμιςa mighty work: a deed that openly displays power, a miracle
miraculous1 word
mire6 words
- ḥomerחֹמֶרclay: the soft, wet earth that is shaped by a potter, packed as mortar, or trodden as mire
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- a heap: a piled-up mass of things gathered together
- a homer: the largest standard dry measure in ancient Israel, roughly ten times an ephah
- titטִיטmud: wet earth soft enough to sink into or to knead, from the sludge at the bottom of a pit to the clay a potter treads
- borborosβόρβοροςmirenot studied yet
- yavenיָוֵןmirenot studied yet
- botsבֹּץmirenot studied yet
- ḥomerחֹמֶרclay: the soft, wet earth that is shaped by a potter, packed as mortar, or trodden as mire
Miriam1 word
Mirmah1 word
mirror2 words
mirrors1 word
- marahמַרְאָהa vision: the sight God gives a prophet when he reveals himself, and the state the prophet is in while it lasts
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- a mirror: a disc of polished bronze in which a person sees her own reflection
- marahמַרְאָהa vision: the sight God gives a prophet when he reveals himself, and the state the prophet is in while it lasts
mirth4 words
- simḥahשִׂמְחָהjoy: gladness felt in the heart and shown openly in celebration, often before God
- sasvonשָׂשׂוֹןexultant joy: glad rejoicing, both the lift of gladness in the heart and the celebration it breaks out into
- masvosמָשׂוֹשׂjoy: glad rejoicing, and by extension the person or place that is someone's delight
- seḥoqשְׂחֹקlaughter: the sound of mirth, from glad rejoicing to hollow merriment or amusement
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- a laughingstock: one whom others laugh at in scorn; an object of derision
miscarriage2 words
miscarry2 words
mischief5 words
- avenאָוֶןevil that comes to nothing: the emptiness, harm, and wickedness of a life set against God
- amalעָמָלmischief: harm that one person deliberately schemes and works against another
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- wearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
- havvahהַוָּהgreedy craving: a grasping, self-serving desire, almost always the wicked's
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- destruction: engulfing ruin, whether a disaster that swallows a victim or the deadly harm people scheme against one another
- asonאָסוֹןa grave, usually fatal calamity that befalls someone; a deadly accident or mishap
- meraמֵרַעmischiefnot studied yet
mischief-maker1 word
miserable2 words
miserably1 word
- kakōsκακῶςbadly off in body: sick, suffering severely, or brought to a wretched end
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- in a way that is wrong: improperly, out of bad motives, or abusively
- kakōsκακῶςbadly off in body: sick, suffering severely, or brought to a wretched end
misery3 words
- amalעָמָלwearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
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- mischief: harm that one person deliberately schemes and works against another
- oniעֳנִיaffliction: the hard, lowered condition of someone weighed down by suffering, oppression, or want
- talaipōriaταλαιπωρίαmiserynot studied yet
- amalעָמָלwearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
misfortune2 words
Mishael2 words
Mishal1 word