ΜΕΤΡΙΩΣ, μετριως
METRIŌS, metriōs
Sounds Like: meh-TREE-ohs
Translations: moderately, in moderation, reasonably, fairly, tolerably
From the root: ΜΕΤΡΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adverb
Explanation: This word describes an action or state that is done or exists in a moderate, reasonable, or tolerable degree. It implies a sense of balance, avoiding extremes, and can also suggest something that is just good enough or acceptable.
Inflection: Does not inflect (adverbial form of the adjective ΜΕΤΡΙΟΣ)
Strong’s number: G3357 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:197
Codex Sinaiticus
- Acts of the Apostles — 20:12
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 14:349
- Book 7 — 8:172, 10:235
- Book 13 — 16:413
- Book 15 — 5:119, 6:194, 8:276
- Book 16 — 3:81, 8:230, 9:294
- Book 18 — 6:205
- Book 19 — 2:196, 3:221
- Book 20 — 4:83, 5:109
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 15:38
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 20:12
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΤΡΙΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΕΤΡΙΑ — moderate, reasonable, temperate, modest, a moderate, a reasonable
- ΜΕΤΡΙΑΝ — moderate, reasonable, modest, a moderate, a reasonable, a modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΙ — moderate, reasonable, fair, modest, temperate, moderate ones, reasonable ones
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΙΣ — to moderate, to reasonable, to fair, to modest, to temperate, for moderate, for reasonable, for fair, for modest, for temperate
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΝ — moderate, reasonable, modest, sufficient, a moderate thing, a reasonable thing
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΣ — moderate, modest, reasonable, temperate, a moderate one, a modest one
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΥ — (of) moderate, (of) modest, (of) reasonable, (of) temperate, (of) fair
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΥΣ — moderate, a moderate, reasonable, a reasonable, modest, a modest, temperate, a temperate
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩ — moderate, suitable, modest, reasonable, a moderate, a suitable, a modest, a reasonable, moderately, suitably, modestly, reasonably
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΝ — of moderate, of reasonable, of modest, of ordinary, of fair, of temperate
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΑΤΩΝ — most moderate, most reasonable, most temperate, most modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΑ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest, more restrained
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, a more moderate thing
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΟΣ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΟΥΣ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΩΝ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest, of more moderate things
- ΤΩΝΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΩΝ — (of) the more moderate, (of) the more reasonable, (of) the more temperate
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