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Strong's G3461 μυριάς (myrias)

Myrias means “ten thousand” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3461 — yishmeray (“Ishmerai”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3461
Language Greek
Linked Usages 51
Books 25

Strong's G3461 Quick Answer

Strong's G3461 μυρίας (murias) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. murias (moo-ree'-as) n. 1. a ten-thousand 2. (by extension) a "myriad" or indefinite number It has 51 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include number, thousand, thousands, and ten. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
murias (moo-ree'-as) n. 1. a ten-thousand 2. (by extension) a "myriad" or indefinite number
Usage
51 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
number, thousand, thousands, and ten

Meaning and Definition

murias (moo-ree'-as) n. 1. a ten-thousand 2. (by extension) a "myriad" or indefinite number [from G3463] KJV: ten thousand Root(s): G3463

Original Word
μυρίας
Transliteration
murias
Derivation
Root: μύριοι R1: 3463
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3461. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

myriad

Usage: μυριάς, -άδος, ἡ (μυρίος), [in LXX chiefly for רְבָבָה ;] ten thousand, a myriad: pl., Act.19:19, Rev.5:11 9:16; hyperb., of vast numbers, Luk.12:1, Act.21:20, Heb.12:12, Ju 14.† (AS)

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How Strong's G3461 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render murias, 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.

number Revelation 5:11 ten Jude 1:14 thousand Acts 19:19 thousands Acts 21:20

How Strong's G3461 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 24 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3461 (μυρίας) appears 44 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3461 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G3461 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 12:1 KJV

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Acts 19:19 KJV

Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Acts 21:20 KJV

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:

Strong's G3461 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

24 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 24:60 Septuagint / Brenton

And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Thou art our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and let thy seed possess the cities of their enemies.

Exodus 39:3 Septuagint / Brenton

Every one that passed the survey from twenty years old and upward to the number of six hundred thousand, and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

Leviticus 26:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase tens of thousands; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

Strong's G3461 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

18 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 5:41 Septuagint / Brenton

So of Israel, from them of twelve years old and upward, beside menservants and maidservants, they were all in number forty thousand, two thousand three hundred and sixty.

Judith 2:15 Septuagint / Brenton

and he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto a hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;

Judith 16:3 Septuagint / Brenton

For God breaketh the battles: For among the camps in the midst of the people He hath delivered me out of the hands of them that persecuted me.

Strong's G3461 in 1 Enoch

2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 1:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

1 Enoch 14:22 Septuagint / Brenton

of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times

Usage Excerpts

First 51 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3461.

Genesis 24:60 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Thou art our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and let thy seed possess the cities of their enemies.
Exodus 39:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every one that passed the survey from twenty years old and upward to the number of six hundred thousand, and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
Leviticus 26:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase tens of thousands; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Numbers 10:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands and tens of thousands in Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How should one pursue a thousand, And two rout tens of thousands, If God had not sold them, And the Lord delivered them up?
Deuteronomy 33:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, The Lord is come from Sinai, And has appeared from Seir to us, And has hastened out of the mount of Paran, with the ten thousands of Kadesh; On his right hand were his angels with him.
Deuteronomy 33:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, His horns are the horns of a unicorn; With them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: These are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And these are the thousands of Manasseh.
1 Kingdoms 18:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the women began the strain, and said, Saul has smitten his thousands, And David his ten thousands.
1 Kingdoms 18:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it seemed evil in the eyes of Saul concerning this matter, and he said, To David they have given ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands.
1 Kingdoms 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land? Did not the dancing women begin the song to him, saying, Saul has smitten his thousands, And David his ten thousands?
1 Kingdoms 29:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is not this David whom they celebrated in dances, saying, Saul has smitten his thousands, And David his ten thousands?
Ezra 2:64 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Ezra 2:69 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
Nehemiah 7:66 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Nehemiah 7:71 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
Nehemiah 7:72 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.
Psalms 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, Who beset me round about.
Psalms 90:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee.
Song of Solomon 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My kinsman is white and ruddy, Chosen out from myriads.
Daniel 3:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless in a contrite heart and a humble spirit let us be accepted. Like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, And like as in ten thousands of fat lambs:
Daniel 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A stream of fire rushed forth before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads attended upon him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.
Daniel 11:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down many thousands; but he shall not prevail.
Jonah 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall not I spare Nineveh, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and also much cattle?
Micah 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will the Lord accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? should I give my firstborn for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Luke 12:1 New Testament, KJV
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Acts 19:19 New Testament, KJV
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts 21:20 New Testament, KJV
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
Hebrews 12:22 New Testament, KJV
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Jude 1:14 New Testament, KJV
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Revelation 5:11 New Testament, KJV
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Revelation 9:16 New Testament, KJV
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
1 Esdras 5:41 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So of Israel, from them of twelve years old and upward, beside menservants and maidservants, they were all in number forty thousand, two thousand three hundred and sixty.
Judith 2:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto a hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;
Judith 16:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For God breaketh the battles: For among the camps in the midst of the people He hath delivered me out of the hands of them that persecuted me.
1 Maccabees 11:45 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Howbeit they that were of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have slain the king.
1 Maccabees 11:47 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the king called to the Jews for help, who came unto him all at once, and dispersing themselves through the city slew that day in the city to the number of a hundred thousand.
1 Maccabees 15:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then camped Antiochus against Dor, having with him a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen.
2 Maccabees 5:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.
2 Maccabees 8:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he told them of the battle that they had in Babylon with the Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business, with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great booty.
2 Maccabees 11:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when he had gathered about fourscore thousand with all the horsemen, he came against the Jews, thinking to make the city a habitation of the Gentiles,
2 Maccabees 11:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
not at all considering the power of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
2 Maccabees 12:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Maccabeus ranged his army by bands, and set them over the bands, and went against Timothy, who had about him a hundred and twenty thousand men of foot, and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.
2 Maccabees 12:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Judas also was very earnest in pursuing them, killing those wicked wretches, of whom he slew about thirty thousand men.
2 Maccabees 12:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Maccabeus marched forth to Carnaim, and to the temple of Atargatis, and there he slew five and twenty thousand persons.
2 Maccabees 12:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But when Judas and his company had called upon Almighty God, who with his power breaketh the strength of his enemies, they won the city, and slew twenty and five thousand of them that were within.
2 Maccabees 13:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, a hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
2 Maccabees 15:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So that fighting with their hands, and praying unto God with their hearts, they slew no less than thirty and five thousand men: for through the appearance of God they were greatly cheered.
4 Maccabees 4:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Having good will to the king’s affairs, I am come to inform thee that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to King Seleucus.
Wisdom of Sirach 47:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So the people honored him with ten thousands, And praised him in the blessings of the Lord In that he gave him a crown of glory.
1 Enoch 1:9 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
1 Enoch 14:22 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3461, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 10 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 2 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G3461 FAQ

What does myrias (μυριάς) mean?

Myrias (Strong's G3461) is a Greek word most simply glossed "ten thousand". murias (moo-ree'-as) n. 1. a ten-thousand 2. (by extension) a "myriad" or indefinite number

How many times is myrias (μυριάς) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 51 linked usages for Strong's G3461 across 25 books.

Where can I study myrias (μυριάς) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3461 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate myrias (μυριάς)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as number, thousand, thousands, and ten. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3461 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 24 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 18 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3461, with linked reader references where each row is available.