What does μύλος (mýlos) mean in the Bible?
μύλος (mýlos): Large grinding stone or millstone, symbolizing inevitable destructive judgment in apocalyptic contexts.
Greek · G3458
μύλος
Millstone
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μύλος G3458
Pronunciation mýlos
What does μύλος (mýlos) mean in the Bible?
μύλος (mýlos): Large grinding stone or millstone, symbolizing inevitable destructive judgment in apocalyptic contexts.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3458?
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include millstone (3), mill (1), of a millstone (1).
Where does μύλος (mýlos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 18:6. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (2), Revelation (2), Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It millstone 3× Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42, Revelation 18:21
mill 1× Matthew 24:41
of a millstone 1× Revelation 18:22
Show sample aligned rows
Matthew 18:6 μύλος to millstone Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Matthew 24:41 μύλῳ to mill Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Mark 9:42 μύλος to millstone Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Revelation 18:21 μύλινον to millstone Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular Revelation 18:22 μύλου to of a millstone Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 18:6
Aligned rows 5
Books represented 3
Matthew 2 Mark 1 Revelation 2
Source forms
μύλος 2x mylos Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42
μύλινον 1x mylinon Revelation 18:21
μύλου 1x mylou Revelation 18:22
μύλῳ 1x mylō Matthew 24:41
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular 2x Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular 1x Revelation 18:21
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular 1x Matthew 24:41
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular 1x Revelation 18:22
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Large grinding stone or millstone, symbolizing inevitable destructive judgment in apocalyptic contexts.
Strong's G3458
Lexical occurrences 4 verses Greek text appearances 4 times Word forms 3 forms 4 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Luke 17:1-10 Source Gloss
millstone
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Large grinding stone or millstone, symbolizing inevitable destructive judgment in apocalyptic contexts.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 18:6 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
μύλος mulov
a millstone
Read verse Luke 17:2 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
μύλος mulov
a millstone
Read verse Revelation 18:21 Noun Accusative Singular Masculine
μύλον mulon
a millstone
Read verse Revelation 18:22 Noun Genitive Singular Masculine
μύλου mulou
a millstone
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 3 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Nominative (2) Number pattern Singular (4)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Matt 18:6 · Mark 9:42 2×
Genitive · Singular · Masculine Rev 18:22 1×
Dative · Singular · Masculine Matt 24:41 1×
Selected Scripture Witness
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
Large stone used as instrument of severe punishment or death by drowning
Showing 1 selected witness from 4 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
μύλος is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain