Vine's Expository Dictionary

Mount, Mountain is used (a) without specification, e.g., Luk 3:5 (distinct from bounos, "a hill," see HILL, No. 3); Joh 4:20; (b) of "the Mount of Transfigurati…

Mountain Range Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H2022Original Word: harUsage Notes: "mountain range; mountainous region; mount." This word also appears in Ugarit…

Mourn (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H56Original Word: ’abalUsage Notes: "to mourn, lament." This word is common to both ancient and modern Hebrew. Found …

Mourn, Mourning "to cut or beat," used in the Middle Voice of "beating the breast or head in mourning" (cp. Luk 23:27), is translated "shall mourn" in Mat 24:30…

Mouth Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6310Original Word: pehUsage Notes: "mouth; edge; opening; entrance; collar; utterance; order; command; evidence." This wo…

Move, Moved, Mover, Moving, Unmovable "to set in motion, move" (hence, e.g., Eng. "kinematics," "kinetics," "cinema"), is used (a) of wagging the head, Mat 27:3…

Mow "to mow," is translated "moved" in Jam 5:4, RV (AV, "have reaped down"). "The cognate words seem to show that the sense of cutting or mowing was original, a…

Much is used (a) as an adjective of degree, e.g., Mat 13:5, "much (earth);" Act 26:24, "much (learning);" in Act 26:29, in the answer to Agrippa's "with but lit…

Much (as) * Notes: (1) In Luk 6:34 the phrase ta isa, lit., "the equivalent (things)," is translated "as much" (of lending, to receive back the equivalent). (2)…

Multiply used (a) transitively, denotes "to cause to increase, to multiply," 2Co 9:10, Heb 6:14 (twice); in the Passive Voice, "to be multiplied," Mat 24:12, RV…

Multiply (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H7235Original Word: rabâUsage Notes: "to multiply, become numerous, become great." This verb a…

Multitude Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H1995Original Word: hamônUsage Notes: "multitude; lively commotion; agitation; tumult; uproar; com…

Murder is used (a) of a special act, Mar 15:7, Luk 23:19, Luk 23:25; (b) in the plural, of "murders" in general, Mat 15:19, Mar 7:21 (Gal 5:21, in some inferior…

Murderer akin to phoneuo and phonos (see above), is used (a) in a general sense, in the singular, 1Pe 4:15; in the plural, Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15; (b) of those gui…

Murmur, Murmuring "to mutter, murmur, grumble, say anything in a low tone" (Eng., "gong"), an onomatopoeic word, representing the significance by the sound of t…

Murmurer "a murmurer" (akin to A, No. 1, and B, above), "one who complains," is used in Jud 1:16, especially perhaps of utterances against God (see Jud 1:15).

Music lit., "a sounding together" (Eng., "symphony"), occurs in Luk 15:25. In the Sept., Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15, for Aramaic sumponya (not in Dan …

Musician * For MUSICIAN, Rev 18:22, AV, see MINSTREL

Musing * For MUSING (dialogizomai, in Luk 3:15, AV) see REASON (Verb)

Must an impersonal verb, signifying "it is necessary" or "one must," "one ought," is found most frequently in the Gospels, Acts and the Apocalypse, and is used …

Mustard a word of Egyptian origin, is translated "mustard seed" in the NT. "The conditions to be fulfilled by the mustard are that it should be a familiar plant…

Mutual * Note: This is the AV rendering of the phrase en allelois in Rom 1:12, translated in the RV, "each of us by the other's (faith)." See OTHER, No. 5.

Muzzle "to close the mouth with a muzzle" (phimos), is used (a) of "muzzling" the ox when it treads out the corn, 1Co 9:9, AV, "muzzle the mouth of," RV, "muzzl…

My (mine) a possessive adjective of the first person, often used as a possessive pronoun with greater emphasis than the oblique forms of ego (see below), a meas…

Myrrh whence the name "Smyrna," a word of Semitic origin, Heb., mor, from a root meaning "bitter," is a gum resin from a shrubby tree, which grows in Yemen and …

Myself a reflexive pronoun, of the first person, lit., "of myself," is used (a) frequently after various prepositions, e.g., hupo, "under," Mat 8:9, Luk 7:8; RV…

Mystery primarily that which is known to the mustes, "the initiated" (from mueo, "to initiate into the mysteries;" cp. Phi 4:12, mueomai, "I have learned the se…