Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
noon/south
Usage: μεσημβρία, -ας, ἡ (μέσος, ἡμέρα), [in LXX chiefly for צֹהַר, Gen.3:16, al; also for נֶגֶב, Dan LXX 8:4, 9, al. ;] __1. noon: Act.22:6. __2. the South: Act.8:26.† (AS)
Mesembria means “south” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3314 — yiphah (“brightness”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3314 μεσημβρία (mesembria) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. mesembria (mes-ame-bree'-ah) n. 1. midday 2. (by implication) the south It has 26 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include south and noon. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
mesembria (mes-ame-bree'-ah) n. 1. midday 2. (by implication) the south [from G3319 and G2250] KJV: noon, south Root(s): G3319, G2250
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3314. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
noon/south
Usage: μεσημβρία, -ας, ἡ (μέσος, ἡμέρα), [in LXX chiefly for צֹהַר, Gen.3:16, al; also for נֶגֶב, Dan LXX 8:4, 9, al. ;] __1. noon: Act.22:6. __2. the South: Act.8:26.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mesembria, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3314 (μεσημβρία) appears 24 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And God appeared to him by the oak of Mamre, as he sat by the door of his tent at noon.
And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and slay beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon.
And they prepared their gifts, until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that he was going to dine there.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Eat, as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; And devour not, lest thou be hated.
At noon it parcheth the country, And who can abide the burning heat thereof?
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3314.
And God appeared to him by the oak of Mamre, as he sat by the door of his tent at noon.
And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and slay beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon.
And they prepared their gifts, until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that he was going to dine there.
And thou shalt grope at midday, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and then thou shalt be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.
Ye that mount a she-ass at noonday, Ye that sit on the judgment seat, And walk by the roads of them that sit in judgment by the way; Declare
And Rechab and Baanah the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite went, and they came in the heat of the day into the house of Ish-bosheth; and he was sleeping on a bed at noon.
And they took the calf and dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning till noon, and said, Hear us, O Baal, hear us. And there was no voice, neither was there hearing, and they ran up and down on the altar which they had made.
And it was noon, and Elijah the Tishbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and is to be awakened.
And he went forth at noon, and the son of Hadad was drinking and getting drunk in Succoth, he and the kings, even thirty and two kings, his allies.
And he carried him to his mother, and he lay upon her knees till noon, and died.
And thy prayer shall be as the morning star, And life shall arise to thee as from the noonday.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, And thy judgment as the noonday.
Evening, and morning, and at noon I will declare and make known my wants: And he shall hear my voice.
Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, Where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, Lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions.
For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
and if thou give bread to the hungry from thy heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light spring up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as noonday:
They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noonday as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.
Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.
Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, even distress at noonday: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.
Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:
For Gaza shall be utterly spoiled, and Ashkelon shall be destroyed; and Ashdod shall be cast forth at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
Eat, as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; And devour not, lest thou be hated.
At noon it parcheth the country, And who can abide the burning heat thereof?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3314, grouped by book.
Mesembria (Strong's G3314) is a Greek word most simply glossed "south". mesembria (mes-ame-bree'-ah) n. 1. midday 2. (by implication) the south
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's G3314 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3314 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as south and noon. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3314, with linked reader references where each row is available.