Quick Definition
μήν, μηνός, ὁ n.m. a month
Strong's Definition
a month
Derivation: a primary word;
KJV Usage: month
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | μηνός
67.174 · Time · Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour
month a period of time measured by a complete cycle in the phases of the moon In a number of languages the equivalent of ‘month’ is simply ‘moon,’ so that one would translate this expression in LUK 1:24 as ‘she kept herself in seclusion for five moons.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μήν, gen. μηνός, 6, (w. Alex. ace. μῆναν, Rev. xxii. 2 Lehm.; on which form see reff. under ἄρσην, fin.); [fr. Hom. down]; 1. a month: Lk. i. 24, 26, 36,56; iv. 25; Acts vii. 20; xviii. 11; xix. 8; xx.3; xxviii. 11; Jas. v. 17: Rev.ix. 5,10, 153)-xi- 25) xin. δ᾽ ΧΙ 9. 2. the time of new moon, new moon, (barbarous Lat. novilunium; after the use of the Hebr. wan, which denotes both a ‘month’ and a ‘new moon,’ as in Num. xxviii. 11; xxix 1): Gal. iv. 10 [Bp. Lghtft. compares Is. Ixvi. 23] (the first day of each month, when the new moon appeared was a festival among the Hebrews; ef. Lev. xxiii. 24 Num. xxviii. 11; Ps. Ixxx. (ixxxi.) 4); [al. refer the passage to 1 (see Mey. ad loc.) ].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μήν, gen., μηνός, ὁ,
[in LXX very freq. for חֹדֶשׁ, Ge 7:11, al.; a few times for יֶרַח;]
a month: Lk 1:24, 26, 36, 56 4:25, Ac 7:20 18:11 19:8 20:3 28:11, Ja 5:17, Re 9:5, 10, 15 11:2 13:5 22:2; pl., of the festival of the new moon (cf. Is 66:23), Ga 4:10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μήν. For μήν denoting a (lunar) month cf. P Amh II. 502° (B.C. 106) τόκους διδράχμους τῆς μνᾶς τὸν μῆνα ἕκαστον, “interest at the rate of two drachmae on the mina each month,” P Oxy II. 294° (A.D. 22) (= Selections, p. 34) ἐπὶ τῷ γεγονέναι ἐν ᾿Αλεξανδρίᾳ [tH . . τοῦ ὑπογε]γραμμένου μηνός, “on my arrival in Alexandria on the .. of the underneted month,” BGU III. 9754 (A.p. 45) (= Selections, Ρ. 42) μηνὸς Μεχὶρ πέμπτῃ καὶ εἰκάτῃ, ‘the twenty-fifth day of the month Mechir,” and the illiterate P Oxy XII. 1489§ (late iii/A.D.) τοῦ ἄλλο (7 -ου) μηνὸς ἐλεύσομε (1 —par), “J shall return in another month,” cf. ® εἰ δῖ, ἔρχομε τῷ ἄλλο μηνί (7. ἔρχομαι. . ἄλλῳ). Ina Ptolemaic ostracon, Μέϊ. Nic. p. 185 No. 127, we find κατὰ μῆναν (for form see Proleg. p. 49). The expression εἰς δύο μῆνας ἡμερῶν in P Strass I. 35° (iv/v A.D.) is said to be ‘‘ peculiar to the Egyptian speech ” (see the introd.). The parenthetic nominative in expressions of time (cf. Mt 1553, Mk 8°, Lk 928: Moulton Pro/eg. p. 69f.) is well illustrated by P Petr III. 36 (a) verso* (Ptol.) λιμῶι παραπολλύμενος μῆνές εἰσιν δέκα, “*perishing from hunger for the last ten months” (Edd.) : cf. BGU IIT. 948° (iv/v A.D.) γινώσκιν ἐ[θ]έλω ὅτι εἶπέν σοι ὃ πραγματευτ[ὴς ὅ]τι ἡ μήτηρ σου ἀσθενῖ, εἰδού, δέκα Tpis | μῆνες --ἃ curious parallel to Lk 13'® For the adj. μηνιαῖος cf. P Ryl IL. 206 (4)° (iii/a.D.) εἰς λόγον διαγραφῆς μηνιαίου Αθύρ, “on account of the monthly payments of Hathur,”’ and for ἐπιμήνια, ““ monthly supplies,” see P Oxy IIT. 53117 (ii/A.D.). MGr μῆνας, pl. μῆνες, pivot.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
μήν (mēn) — month. Included with: μείς, μηνός, ὁ, nominative singular μείς [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Doric dialect μής [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Elean μεύς [Refs]: nominative singular μήν [LXX+8th c.BC+]; both μείς and μήν in [Refs 4th c.BC+]: oblique cases formed from stem μην-, Aeolic dialect μηνν- [Refs], Thess. μεινν- [Refs]; dative plural μησί [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—month, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; μηνὸς τετάρτῃ φθίνοντος on the fourth day from the end of the month, Foed. cited in [same work][Refs]; Μαιμακτηριῶνος δεκάτῃ ἀπιόντος, i.e. on the 21st, Decrees cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; μηνῶν φθινὰς ἁμέρα the last of the month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τελευτῶντος τοῦ μηνός at the end of the lunar month (when there was no moon-light), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκείνου τοῦ μηνός in the course of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ μῆνα monthly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ μῆνα ἕκαστον, κατὰ μῆνας, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκάστου μηνός[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ μηνός alone, by the month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τόκον δραχμὴν τοῦ μ. τῆς μνᾶς interest a drachma per mina per month, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. πλήρης, κοῖλος, civil month of 30 or 29 days respectively, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; μ. ἐμβόλιμος intercalary month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. crescent moon, Thphr. [prev. cited] (μείς); the part of the month corresponding to a phase of the moon, [Refs]; the visible part of the moon, Chrysipp. [prev. cited] (μείς).
3. ornament in form of crescent moon, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. b ={μηνίσκος} 1, probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. as proper name, the god [Refs 5th c.BC+] stem mēns- 'moon', 'month', cf. Latin mensis, genitive plural mensum, etc.)