Monon μόνον

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Monon
μόνον
Transliterationmonon
Strong's numberG3440
LanguageGreek
Part of speechadverb
Glossonly
Occurrences2 in 2 verses
Most frequent inMatthew (1)

Monon (Greek μόνον, Strong's G3440) is a Greek adverb meaning “only”. It occurs 2 times in 2 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

μόνον, see: μόνος.
μόνος, -η, -ον,
[in LXX chiefly for לְבַד ;]
1. adj., alone, solitary, forsaken: with verb., Mat.14:23, Mrk.6:47, Luk.9:36, al.; with pron., Mat.18:15, Mrk.9:2, al.; with subst., Mrk.9:8, Luk.4:8, al.; pleonast., οὐκ . . . εἰ μὴ μ., Mat.12:4, Luk.6:4, al.; attrib., only, (ὁ) μ. θεός, Jhn.5:44 17:3, Rom.16:27, 1Ti.1:17, Ju 25.
2. As adv.,
(a) neut., (μόνον, alone, only: referring to verb or predic., Mat.9:21, Mrk.5:36, Jas.1:22, al. (see Bl., §44, 2); οὐ (μὴ) μ., Gal.4:18, Jas.1:22; οὐ μ. . . . ἀλλά (Bl, §77, 13.3), Act.19:26, 1Jn.5:6, al.; id. before καί (Bl., §81, 1.2), Rom.5:3 9:10, 2Co.8:19, al.;
(b) κατὰ μόνας, alone (Bl., §44, 1), Mrk.4:10, Luk.9:18.
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVonly (61), alone (3), but (1)
BSBonly (46), just (5), alone (4), even (1), long (1), nevertheless (1)

Verses

Every verse with Monon, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Philippians

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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