: myriad - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Main Entry:
1myr·i·ad
Pronunciation:
\ˈmir-ē-əd\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Greek myriad-, myrias, from myrioi countless, ten thousand
Date:
1555


1 : ten thousand 2 : a great number <a myriad of ideas>

usage Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it.

like a Dore etching...

i was just led to Revelation Chapter Twelve...seeing myriad angelics
in the heavenlies.

Thank you Signet, for your help sister ~

EXCERPT
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3733

The company of worshippers expands to include all the angels of heaven. A second choir of worshippers joins now with the first choir and all heaven breaks loose! In 5:11-12, John writes, “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud43 voice,44 ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain45 to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.’” An innumerable host of angels now joins the four creatures and 24 elders in ascribing worth to the Lamb (cf. Dan 7:10; Ps 68:17-18; Matt 2:13). The Greek word for “myriad” (miros) means 10,000.46 “Myriad of myriad” would mean 10,000 times 10,000. That’s 100 million! But this is in the plural—“myriads of myriads”—meaning hundreds of millions times hundreds of millions. The number is easily in the billions. But then John records that there are still “thousands of thousands” in addition to the billions. One thousand times one thousand is one million. But again, this is in the plural (“thousands of thousands”). So there are multiplied millions spilling over the billions of worshippers already counted. This staggering number exceeds the limits of human language and our ability to comprehend.47 Multiplied billions are in this heavenly choir worshipping in heaven.

Gen 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;


Gen 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

1Sa 13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.


use a bible-software to search for all verses containing SAND, SEA...........you'll find many interesing verses

also, .............stars, heaven...........is an in-numerable number

Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?


are these stars angels?..........or are they stars?...........does a star sing bass or alto?

they sang together,,,,,,,,,not solo.

a star = an angel?


Num 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

a Star = a King

Deu 1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

the stars are in-numerable

Jdg 5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

are these stars fist-fighting, or is it a gun-battle?

Job 25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

the stars are dirty.

Psa 147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

an infinite god can tell the infinite number of an in-numerable number of stars.........an infinite number of names........wow!

Thank you, so very much Dennis :


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad
Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10,000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity.

The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. Small numbers are named in terms of number of tens plus the remainder; for example 76 is seven tens plus six. Numbers larger than ten tens require a new description, a hundred. Thus, 1776 is seventeen hundred seventy six. Similarly one hundred hundred is a myriad. A myriad myriad, or one hundred million, was left as the largest named number by the Ancient Greeks and is also the largest named number in the Bible.

A myriad is primarily a singular cardinal number; just as the "thousand" in "four thousand" is singular (one does not write "four thousands people") the word myriad is used in the same way: "there are four myriad people outside". When used as a noun, meaning "a large number", it follows the same rules as that phrase. However, that is not the case originally in Greek, where there is plural.

In English, the term "myriad" is most commonly used to refer to a large number of an unspecified size. In this way "myriad" can be used as either a noun or an adjective. Thus both "there are myriad people outside" and "There is a myriad of people outside" are correct.

i hear the harmony of the spheres...the stars sing and the music is heavenly.