Greek preposition · G3342
μεταξύ
metaxymet-ax-oo'
adv. of place and time (in NT time only); Prep. with genitive
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: metaxý
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3342is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3342
betwixt (of place or person); (of time) as adjective, intervening, or (by implication) adjoining
The King James renders it: between, mean while, next.
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
metaxy is rendered "adv. of place and time (in NT time only); Prep. with genitive". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "adv. of place and time (in NT time only)".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
The first use
If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
Matthew 18:15μεταξὺ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: adv. of place and time (in NT time only), and Prep. with genitive.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| adv. of place and time (in NT time only)__(a) between | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 4:31Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.” |
| Prep. with genitivebetween | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you… |
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 |
| 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 |
| μεταμορφόω | metamorphoo | to transform | Uses4 |
and 8 more on the stem.
All 9, 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
- μεταξὺ9
The grammar of each form
- preposition9PREP
Matthew
two uses
If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: between
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: between
Luke
two uses
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: between
And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: between
John
one use
Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: meantime
Acts
three uses
On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: between
As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people urged them to continue this message on the next Sabbath.
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: next
He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: between
Romans
one use
So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them
- μεταξὺmetaxuprepositiontagged: between
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.