Mesites means “mediator” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3316 — yiphtach (“Jephthah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3316 μεσίτης (mesites) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. mesites (mes-ee'-tace) n. 1. a go-between 2. (simply) a spokesman It has 7 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include mediator. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
mesites (mes-ee'-tace) n. 1. a go-between 2. (simply) a spokesman 3. (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor) [from G3319] KJV: mediator Root(s): G3319
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3316. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
mediator
Usage: μεσίτης, -ου, ὁ (μέσος), [in LXX: Job.9:33 (בֵּין)* ;] an arbitrator, mediator: Gal.3:19; with dupl. genitive of person(s), θεοῦ κ. ἀνθρώπων, 1Ti.2:5; with genitive of thing(s), διαθήκης, Heb.8:6 9:15 12:24; ὁ δε μ. ἑνὸς οὐκ ἔστιν, Gal.3:20 (see Lft., in l; and for exx. of this word in π., see MM, xvi).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mesites, 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 New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G3316 (μεσίτης) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, And one who should hear the cause between both.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3316.
Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, And one who should hear the cause between both.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3316, grouped by book.
Mesites (Strong's G3316) is a Greek word most simply glossed "mediator". mesites (mes-ee'-tace) n. 1. a go-between 2. (simply) a spokesman
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G3316 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3316 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mediator. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3316, with linked reader references where each row is available.