μέσος
mesos
midst
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word μέσος (mesos), found 60 times in the Bible, translates to "midst." Its definition provides a clear idea of its meaning: it refers to something or someone being placed or situated in the middle of something else. The frequency of its occurrence suggests that the concept of being in the middle is a significant aspect of the biblical narrative. This word is used in various contexts, from descriptive phrases (such as describing the midst of a crowd or a city) to figurative expressions (such as being in the midst of a spiritual journey). The significance of μέσος lies in its ability to convey a sense of balance, positioning, and centrality. It highlights the idea that being in the midst often brings about a unique perspective or experience, where one can witness or participate in multiple aspects of a situation simultaneously.
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Occurrences in Scripture
60 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 13:25but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:49So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
Matthew 14:6But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.
Matthew 18:2Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
Matthew 25:6But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
Mark 3:3He said to the man who had his hand withered, “Stand up.”
Mark 6:47When evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land.
Mark 7:31Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis.
Mark 9:36He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
Mark 14:60The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”
Luke 2:46After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
Luke 4:30But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.
Luke 4:35Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
Luke 5:19Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.
Luke 6:8But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.
Luke 8:7Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
Luke 22:27For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
Luke 10:3Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Luke 17:11As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
Luke 21:21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.
Luke 22:55When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.
Luke 22:55When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.
Luke 23:45The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
Luke 24:36As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
John 1:26John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
John 8:3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
John 8:9They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
John 19:18where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
John 20:19When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
John 20:26After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
Acts 1:15In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
Acts 1:18Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
Acts 4:7When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
Acts 17:22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Acts 17:33Thus Paul went out from among them.
Acts 23:10When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
Acts 26:13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
Acts 27:21When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss.
Acts 27:27But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
1 Corinthians 5:2You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
1 Corinthians 6:5I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
2 Corinthians 6:17Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
Philippians 2:15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Colossians 2:14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
1 Thessalonians 2:7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.