Greek semantic word

μέν

Transliteration: men

6 lexical sense(s); 196 exact STEP occurrence token(s).

Lexical senses and semantic domains

Sense 1: and, so (but often left untranslated)

a marker of linkage in discourse

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003217-01
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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32 (32 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 2: then, indeed or frequently not translated but possibly reflected in the word order

marker of relatively weak emphasis

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003217-02
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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34 (34 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 3: some … others, first … then

a marker of two or more items which are additively related and thematically parallel

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003217-03
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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22 (22 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 4: on the one hand … but on the other hand

a marker of sets of items in contrast with one another

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003217-04
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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84 (84 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 5: on the one hand … but on the other hand

a marker of sets of items in contrast with one another

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003217-05
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 6: on the one hand … but on the other hand

a marker of sets of items in contrast with one another

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003217-06
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
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1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Related words and biblical concepts

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Advanced record identity
Lemma ID
SDBC-GRK-LEMMA-003217
Page model version
1.0
Direction
ltr
Domain policy
Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
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