G3425: μόγις (mógis)

G3425 μόγις (mógis)

Greek

Quick Definition

μόγις Adv with difficulty, scarcely, hardly

Strong's Definition

adverb from a primary mogos (toil); with difficulty

KJV Usage: hardly

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

μόγις (G3425)

advb. | μογγιλάλος · μογιλάλος · μόλις (later form) · μόχθος

78.41 · Degree · About, Approximately, Almost, Hardly [Approximate Degree]

barely, just, scarcely, with difficulty, hardly a degree which almost equals some point on a scale of extent, but not quite

LUK 9:39

¹ μόλις and μόγις are often regarded as alternative forms of the same lexical item. The form μόγις appears to be preferred in later prose.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μόγις, (μόγος toil), fr. Hom. down, hardly, with diffculty: Lk. ix. 39 [yet WH Trmrg. μόλις, q. ν.]. (3 Mace. vii. 6.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

μόγις mogis 1x

with difficulty, scarcely, hardly, Lk. 9:39*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** μόγις,

adv.

(< μόγος, toil), [in LXX: Wi 9:16 א A (μόγις, B), III Mac 7:6*;]

with toil or difficulty, hardly: Lk 9:39 (μόγις, WH).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

μόγις. Mayser (Gr. p. 17) cites only one ex. of μόγις for μόλις (see s.v.) from Ptolemaic times, P Magd τι (B.c. 221) (= Chrest. I. p. 520) μόγις ἕλκοντες τὸ πλοῖον ἠγάγομεν ἐπὶ τὸν ὅρμον τοῦ ᾿Αρσινοΐτου, “hauling the vessel with difficulty we brought it to the harbour of Arsinoé.” For later exx. see P Oxy 11. 29819 (i/a.p.) μόγις (δραχμὰς) X ἀπαιτήσας, P Lips I. 105!° (i/ii a.p.) μόγις τὸν τῆς BeBpeypévns ἀπήρτισα, P Strass I. 41° (a.p. 250) μό[γι]ς ἤ[χ]θησαν, and PSI I. 40? (vi/A.p.) μόγις μετὰ πολλῶν καμάτων. The adj. poyepds is well illustrated by Kazbe/ 1519: τοῖός τοι θνητῶν μογερὸς βίος, ὧν ἀτέλεστοι ἐλπίδες, αἷ[5] μοιρῶν νήματ᾽ ἐπικρέμαται.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

μόγις (mogis) — hardly. μόγῐς, Aeolic dialect μύγις [Refs 6th c.AD+]: adverb, (μόγος) with toil and pain, i. e. hardly, scarcely, [NT+8th c.BC+] is rare in Attic dialect Prose, except in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; both forms in codices of [Refs 8th c.BC+]