"a myriad, ten thousand, Acts 19:19; indefinitely, a vast multitude, Lk. 12:1; Acts 21:20; Heb. 12:22; Jude 14; Rev. 5:11; 9:16*"
Definition and meaning
a myriad, ten thousand, Acts 19:19; indefinitely, a vast multitude, Lk. 12:1; Acts 21:20; Heb. 12:22; Jude 14; Rev. 5:11; 9:16*
In the original Greek the word is written: μυριάς
Historical context
Luke wrote as a historian addressing a Greek audience. He carefully interviewed eyewitnesses and arranged events in order. The social and economic realities he describes — Roman taxation, Jewish religious hierarchy, the marginalization of women and the poor — are consistent with first-century Judea under Roman administration.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of myrias (G3461) across the King James Bible.
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.
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.
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:
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,
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
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;
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
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Common questions
Strong's G3461 (myrias) is a Greek word that means: a myriad, ten thousand, Acts 19:19; indefinitely, a vast multitude, Lk. 12:1; Acts 21:20; Heb. 12:22; Jude 14; Rev. 5:11; 9:16* It appears 7 times in the King James Bible.
The word myrias (G3461) appears 7 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G3461 is myrias, a Greek word defined as: a myriad, ten thousand, Acts 19:19; indefinitely, a vast multitude, Lk. 12:1; Acts 21:20; Heb. 12:22; Jude 14; Rev. 5:11; 9:16*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
myrias is a Greek word found in the New Testament.