Semnos means “grave” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4586 — meuni (“Meunim”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4586 σεμνός (semnos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. semnos (sem-nos') adj. 1. venerable, i.e. honorable [from G4576] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include grave and honest. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
semnos (sem-nos') adj. 1. venerable, i.e. honorable [from G4576] KJV: grave, honest Root(s): G4576
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4586. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
noble
Usage: σεμνός, -ή, -όν (σέβομαι), [in LXX: Pro.6:8 8:6 15:26, 2Ma.6:11 2Mac 6:28 2Mac 8:15, 4Ma.5:36 4Mac 7:15 4Mac 17:5 * ;] __1. reverend, august, venerable, in cl. of the gods and also of human beings. __2. grave, serious; of persons: 1Ti.3:8 3:11, Tit.2:2; of things: Php.4:8 (see Tr., Syn., § xcii; Cremer, 37; MM, xxii).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render semnos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4586 (σεμνός) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Hearken to me; for I will speak solemn truths; And will produce right sayings from my lips.
But the sayings of the pure are held in honor.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the Sabbath day secretly, being discovered to Philip, were all burned together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honor of the most sacred day.
and leave a notable example to such as be young to die willingly and courageously for the honorable and holy laws. And when he had said these words, immediately he went to the torment:
and if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants he had made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious name’s sake, by which they were called.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4586.
Hearken to me; for I will speak solemn truths; And will produce right sayings from my lips.
But the sayings of the pure are held in honor.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the Sabbath day secretly, being discovered to Philip, were all burned together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honor of the most sacred day.
and leave a notable example to such as be young to die willingly and courageously for the honorable and holy laws. And when he had said these words, immediately he went to the torment:
and if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants he had made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious name’s sake, by which they were called.
Mouth! thou shalt not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.
O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.
Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as thou art established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with thy sons whom thou didst illuminate with religion to the stars.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4586, grouped by book.
Semnos (Strong's G4586) is a Greek word most simply glossed "grave". semnos (sem-nos') adj. 1. venerable, i.e. honorable [from G4576]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G4586 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4586 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as grave and honest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4586, with linked reader references where each row is available.