Greek verb · G3337
μεταλλάσσω
metallassomet-al-las'-so
to exchange; to change
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: metallássō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3337is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3337
to exchange
The King James renders it: change.
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
metallasso is rendered "to exchange; to change". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to exchange".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 1:25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.
The first use
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.
Romans 1:25μετήλλαξαν
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 Romans.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to exchange, and to change.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to exchangeτ. ἀλήθειαν . . . ἐν τ. ψεύδει, the truth for a lie (see Bl., § 36, 8), Rom_1:25. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereRomans 1:25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie… |
| to changewith accusative before εἰς, Rom_1:26 (ἀλλάσσω).† (AS) | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- changed2
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μετά | meta | with/after | Uses461 |
| μετανοέω | metanoeo | to repent | Uses34 |
| μετάνοια | metanoia | repentance | Uses22 |
| μεταβαίνω | metabaino | to depart | Uses12 |
| μεταξύ | metaxy | between/meanwhile | Uses9 |
| μεταπέμπω | metapempo | to summon | Uses9 |
| μεταλαμβάνω | metalambano | to partake | Uses7 |
| μετατίθημι | metatithemi | to transport | Uses6 |
| μεταμέλλομαι | metamellomai | to repent | Uses6 |
| μεταδίδωμι | metadidomi | to share | Uses5 |
| μετασχηματίζω | metaschematizo | to transform | Uses5 |
| μετακαλέω | metakaleo | to summon | Uses4 |
and 8 more on the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- μετήλλαξαν2
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-AAI-3P
Romans
two uses
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.
- μετήλλαξανmetellaxanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: changed
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- μετήλλαξανmetellaxanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: changed
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.