Greek noun (feminine) · G3046
λίτρα
litralee'-trah
a Sicilian coin = Rom. libra or as.; In weight, a pound
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lítra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3046is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3046
a pound in weight
The King James renders it: pound.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
litra is rendered "a Sicilian coin = Rom. libra or as.; In weight, a pound". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a Sicilian coin = Rom. libra or as.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 12:3Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
John 12:3λίτραν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in John.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a Sicilian coin = Rom. libra or as., and In weight, a pound.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a Sicilian coin = Rom. libra or as. | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 12:3Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard… |
| In weight, a poundJhn.12:3 19:39.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 12:3Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- λίτραν1
- λίτρας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
John
two uses
Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
- λίτρανlitrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a litra
Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
- λίτραςlitrasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: litras
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.