Greek noun (masculine) · G3355
μετρητής
metretesmet-ray-tace'
a measurer (Plat.).; = ἀμφορεύς, an Attic measure, = 11⁄2 Roman amphoræ or about 9 Eng. gallons
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: metrētḗs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3355is 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) · G3355
a measurer, i.e. (specially), a certain standard measure of capacity for liquids
The King James renders it: firkin.
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
metretes is rendered "a measurer (Plat.).; = ἀμφορεύς, an Attic measure, = 11⁄2 Roman amphoræ or about 9 Eng. gallons". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a measurer (Plat.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 2:6Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.
The first use
Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.
John 2:6μετρητὰς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a measurer (Plat.)., and = ἀμφορεύς, an Attic measure, = 11⁄2 Roman amphoræ or about 9 Eng. gallons.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a measurer (Plat.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJohn 2:6Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification… |
| = ἀμφορεύς, an Attic measure, = 11⁄2 Roman amphoræ or about 9 Eng. gallonsJhn.2:6.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 2:6Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification… |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| μέτρον | metron | measure | Uses14 |
| μετρέω | metreo | to measure | Uses11 |
| μετρίως | metrios | moderately | Uses1 |
| μετριοπαθέω | metriopatheo | be gentle | Uses1 |
All 1, 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
- μετρητὰς1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
John
one use
Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.
- μετρητὰςmetretasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: metretae
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.