Mark 15:40
New Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
פָּנָה
pânâh
to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. appear, look, etc.
מֶרְחָק
merchâq
remoteness, i.e. (concretely) a distant place; often (adverbially) from afar
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
Μαρία
María
Maria or Mariam (i.e. Mirjam), the name of six Christian females
Μαγδαληνή
Magdalēnḗ
a female Magdalene, i.e. inhabitant of Magdala
Μαρία
María
Maria or Mariam (i.e. Mirjam), the name of six Christian females
אֵם
ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
Ἰάκωβος
Iákōbos
Jacobus, the name of three Israelites
מָעַט
mâʻaṭ
properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
Σαλώμη
Salṓmē
Salome (i.e. Shelomah), an Israelitess
Key Terms in This Verse
מָעַט mâʻaṭ
properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
Study H4591 →מֶרְחָק merchâq
remoteness, i.e. (concretely) a distant place; often (adverbially) from afar
Study H4801 →Μαρία María
Maria or Mariam (i.e. Mirjam), the name of six Christian females
Study G3137 →Μαρία María
Maria or Mariam (i.e. Mirjam), the name of six Christian females
Study G3137 →Cross References
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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