Definition
on the one hand, indeed
Men's hands
Postpositive. Sometimes this word is untranslatable. It can occur as a correlative conjunction with δέ. In this case you can translate μέν ... δέ as "on the one hand ... but on the other." English generally does not require the "on the one hand" to be translated but it is a matter of style.
| 1 Peter 3:18 | Because Christ also suffered once for our sins, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, |
| 1 Peter 4:6 | It was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to the dead, so that though (men | μέν | particle) they were judged as men in the flesh, they might live as God in the Spirit. |
| Jude 1:8 | Yet in the same way these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. |
| Jude 1:10 | But these people blaspheme whatever they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct as irrational beasts, by these they are being destroyed. |
| Jude 1:22 | And have mercy on some who are wavering; |