Bible word study

Makarios (Strong’s G3107): Meaning in the Bible

Makarios (μακάριος) is the Greek word numbered G3107 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as supremely blest; by extension, fortunate, well off. In the King James Bible it is translated blessed, happy(X -ier)..

• Original wordμακάριος
• Transliterationmakários
• Pronunciationmak-ar'-ee-os
• Strong’s numberG3107
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a prolonged form of the poetical (meaning the same);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Makarios appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Makarios (G3107) stands behind 50 English renderings in 49 verses across 11 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Luke (15), Matthew (13), Revelation (7).

How the King James Bible renders Makarios, by count

• blessed44 of 50 (88 percent)
• happy5 of 50 (10 percent)
• happier1 of 50 (2 percent)

Three places to read Makarios

• Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
• Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Makarios in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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