3433. molis
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molis: with difficulty
Original Word: μόλις
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: molis
Phonetic Spelling: (mol'-is)
Short Definition: with difficulty, hardly
Definition: with difficulty, hardly, scarcely.

HELPS word-Studies

3433 mólis (from mogos, "toil) – properly, something happening with great difficulty, i.e. hardly ("scarcely").

3433 /mólis ("what barely happens") emphasizes the slight margin by which something comes to pass, i.e. because it is so difficult.

[3425 /mógis (from mogos, "laborious toil") focuses on the prolonged nature of a difficulty.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from molos (toil)
Definition
with difficulty
NASB Translation
difficulty (4), hardly (1), only with difficulty (1), scarcely (1).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 3433: μόλις

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): (Luke 9:39 Tr marginal reading WH (others μόγις, which see)); Acts 14:18; Acts 27:7f, 16; 1 Peter 4:18.

b. not easily, i. e. scarcely, very rarely: Romans 5:7.



Strong's
with difficulty

Probably by variation for mogis; with difficulty -- hardly, scarce(-ly), + with much work.

see GREEK mogis

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