Quick Definition
with difficulty, hardly
Strong's Definition
with difficulty
Derivation: probably by variation for G3425 (μόγις);
KJV Usage: hardly, scarce(-ly), + with much work
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μόλις (μολος toil); an adverb used by post-Homeric writings indiscriminately with μόγις;
a. with difficulty, hardly (cf. Wis_9:16, where μετά πόνου corresponds to it in the parallel member): (Luk_9:39 Tr marginal reading WH (others μόγις, which see)); Act_14:18; Acts 27:7 f, 16 ; 1Pe_4:18.
b. not easily, i. e. scarcely, very rarely: Rom_5:7.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μόλις molis 6x
with difficulty, scarcely, hardly, Act_14:18 ; Act_27:7-8 ; Act_27:16 ; Rom_5:7 ; 1Pe_4:18
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μόλις ,
adv.
( <μόλος , toil),
post- Hom . alternative for μόγις ,
[in LXX : Pro_11:31 , Wis_9:16 , al. ;]
with difficulty, hardly, scarcely: Luk_9:39 ( T , μόγις ), Act_14:8 ; Act_27:7-8 ; Act_27:16 , Rom_5:7 , 1Pe_4:18 ( LXX ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μόλις [page 416]
P Tebt I. 19 .10 (B.C. 1 14) μόλις ἕως τῆς κ̄ε̄ χωρισθήσονται , they will hardly depart until the 25th (Edd.), P Ryl II. 113 .27 (A.D. 133) μόλις πάντα τὰ ἐμαυτοῦ πωλήσας ἐδυνήθην πληρῶσαι , I was with difficulty able to complete this by selling all my property (Edd.), P Oxy VIII. 1117 .19 ( c. A.D. 178) μέτρια κεκτήμεθα ἐξ ὧν καὶ μόλις ζῶμεν , and Kaibel 531 .1 μόλις ποτὲ ηὗρον δεσπότ [ην ] εὐνούστατον .
In MGr μόλις may have a temporal sense, just now, as soon as. The word is perhaps related to μῶλος , Lat. moles , just as μόγις comes from μόγος (Boisacq, p. 643).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μόλις [Etym: later form for μόγις, Trag. , Thuc. , etc.] with a negat., οὐ μόλις "not scarcely", i. e. "quite, utterly", Aesch. , Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μόλις
adv. (μόλος, toil)
post-Hom. alternative for μόγις,
[in LXX: Pro.11:31, Wis.9:16, al. ;]
with difficulty, hardly, scarcely: Luk.9:39 (T, μόγις), Act.14:8 27:7-8, 16, Rom.5:7, 1Pe.4:18" (LXX) .†
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