Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
certainly
Usage: μήν a particle of assurance, verily, truly; εἰ (εἶ) μ. (= cl., ἦ μ. in LXX and π.), now verily, full surely: Heb.6:14 (LXX).† (AS)
men - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3375 — yiron (“Iron”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3375 μήν (men) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. men (mayn') prt. 1. assuredly [a stronger form of G3303, a particle of affirmation (only with G2229)] It has 39 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include surely. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
men (mayn') prt. 1. assuredly [a stronger form of G3303, a particle of affirmation (only with G2229)] KJV: + surely Root(s): G3303, G2229
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certainly
Usage: μήν a particle of assurance, verily, truly; εἰ (εἶ) μ. (= cl., ἦ μ. in LXX and π.), now verily, full surely: Heb.6:14 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render men, 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, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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 G3375 (μήν) appears 39 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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
32 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.
Send one of you, and take your brother; and go ye to prison, till your words be clear, whether ye speak the truth or not; but, if not, by the health of Pharaoh, verily ye are spies.
But if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall come forward before God, and shall swear that surely he has not wrought wickedly in regard of any part of his neighbor’s deposit,
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Therefore Nebuchadnezzar was very angry with all this country, and swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.
Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the succor before granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breast, and
Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition of her sons, and their obedience to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have
First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3375.
surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.
Send one of you, and take your brother; and go ye to prison, till your words be clear, whether ye speak the truth or not; but, if not, by the health of Pharaoh, verily ye are spies.
But if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall come forward before God, and shall swear that surely he has not wrought wickedly in regard of any part of his neighbor’s deposit,
an oath of God shall be between both, each swearing that he has surely not at all been guilty in the matter of his neighbor’s deposit; and so his master shall hold him guiltless, and he shall not make compensation.
surely they shall not see the land, which I swore to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.
Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.
I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.
And Samson said to them, Though ye may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterward I will cease.
So David hides himself in the field, and the new month arrives, and the king comes to the table to eat.
And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of the reign of King Solomon over Israel, and costly stones for the foundation of the house, and hewn stones. the stones, and laid them for a foundation. is the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.
And all Israel were assembled unto the king in the feast, this is the seventh month.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
And Mordecai established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, and upon their seed, and upon those that were joined to them to observe it, neither would they on any account behave differently: but these days were to be a memorial kept in every generation, and city, and family, and province.
But put forth thy hand, and touch all that he has: Verily he will curse thee to thy face.
Nay, but put forth thy hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: Verily he will curse thee to thy face.
Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, And will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
Even as many as provoke the Lord, As if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.
Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, And I will reason before him, if he will.
Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, Verily I will speak, and plead before him.
Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, For I do not find truth in you.
Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, And destruction shall come upon them, And pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
Verily, while my breath is yet in me, And the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,
Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, And they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.
For truly I will not be awed because of man, Nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.
Howbeit hear, Job, my words, And hearken to my speech.
Howbeit do thou learn, Job: No longer make answer as the foolish:
By myself I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of my mouth; my words shall not be frustrated; that to me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall swear by God,
As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords, and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.
As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep.
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, verily thou hast sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.
therefore thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder:
that my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of mine anger, verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
Therefore Nebuchadnezzar was very angry with all this country, and swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.
Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the succor before granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breast, and
Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition of her sons, and their obedience to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased.
Neither will I go with consuming envy; For such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom.
If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3375, grouped by book.
Strong's G3375 is a Greek entry for G3375 μήν (men). men (mayn') prt. 1. assuredly [a stronger form of G3303, a particle of affirmation (only with G2229)]
This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's G3375 across 19 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3375 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as surely. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 32 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3375, with linked reader references where each row is available.