2001 Translation

MĒTERA, mētera

Sounds Like: MEE-teh-rah

Translations: mother, a mother

From the root: ΜΗΤΗΡ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a female parent. It is used in a literal sense to denote the biological mother of a child, or sometimes metaphorically to refer to the origin or source of something. It is a common noun found throughout Koine Greek texts.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3384 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:13, 2:16, 7:13

Codex Sinaiticus

• Leviticus — 22:27
• Tobit — 4:3, 5:17, 7:14, 14:9
• 4 Maccabees — 8:4, 12:6, 14:20, 15:11, 15:21
• Psalms — 112:9, 130:2
• Proverbs — 15:20, 17:21, 19:26, 20:20, 28:24, 30:11
• Job — 17:14
• Jeremiah — 15:8, 22:26
• Matthew — 2:13, 2:14
• Mark — 10:19, 10:29, 10:30
• Luke — 8:51, 12:53, 14:26, 18:20
• Romans — 16:13
• Ephesians — 5:31, 6:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 15:98

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:36, 10:190, 11:197, 16:252, 19:294, 19:297
• Book 2 — 9:227
• Book 4 — 8:249
• Book 5 — 8:259, 10:344
• Book 6 — 7:155, 11:237
• Book 7 — 7:154, 14:348
• Book 8 — 1:3, 1:9, 2:33, 13:327
• Book 9 — 6:118
• Book 10 — 7:100
• Book 13 — 8:230, 8:233, 8:235, 10:292, 11:302, 12:336, 13:358, 16:416
• Book 14 — 13:353, 13:358, 15:413
• Book 15 — 6:184, 6:185, 7:202, 7:220, 7:239
• Book 16 — 1:8, 3:85, 4:114, 10:305
• Book 17 — 4:64, 4:66, 4:68, 5:117, 9:225
• Book 19 — 5:276
• Book 20 — 2:38, 2:46, 3:71, 4:94, 8:153

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 4:2, 17:1, 23:8, 24:7, 25:10, 25:14, 27:6, 27:13, 30:2, 31:3, 31:6, 31:9, 31:17, 32:8, 32:10, 32:11
• Book Two — 2:8, 13:1, 18:19
• Book Five — 9:32

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 27:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 43:6, 66:3, 77:2, 77:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 76:426

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 2:24, 27:11, 30:14, 32:11
• Exodus — 2:8, 20:12, 21:15, 21:16, 22:30
• Leviticus — 19:3, 20:9, 20:14, 22:27
• Deuteronomy — 5:16, 21:13, 22:6, 22:7, 27:16
• Joshua — 2:13, 2:18, 6:23
• Judges — 14:9
• Ruth — 2:11
• 1 Kings — 1:11, 2:13, 15:13
• 2 Kings — 4:19, 22:14, 24:15
• 2 Chronicles — 15:16
• Ezra (Alpha) — 4:21, 4:25
• Tobit — 4:3, 4:3, 5:17, 7:13, 14:10, 14:10
• 2 Maccabees — 7:25
• 4 Maccabees — 8:4, 12:6, 14:20, 15:11, 15:21, 17:7
• Psalms — 112:9, 130:2
• Proverbs — 15:20, 17:21, 19:23, 20:10, 24:34, 28:24
• Job — 17:14
• Sirach — 3:4, 3:5, 3:6, 3:16, 40:1
• Isaiah — 8:4, 50:1
• Jeremiah — 15:8, 22:26
• Ezekiel — 22:7
• Hosea — 2:2, 4:5, 10:14
• Amos — 1:11
• Micah — 7:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 2:13, 2:14, 2:20, 2:21, 10:37, 15:4, 15:5, 19:5, 19:19, 19:29
• Mark — 5:40, 7:10, 10:7, 10:19, 10:29
• Luke — 2:34, 8:51, 12:53, 14:26, 18:20
• John — 6:42, 19:26
• Romans — 16:13
• Ephesians — 5:31, 6:2

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΗΤΗΡ.

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.

• ΜΕΝΜΗΤΕΡΑ — mother, a mother
• ΜΗΤ? — mother, a mother
• ΜΗΤΕΡ — mother, a mother
• ΜΗΤΕΡΑΣ — mothers
• ΜΗΤΕΡΕΣ — mothers
• ΜΗΤΕΡΩΝ — of mothers
• ΜΗΤΗΡ — mother, a mother
• ΜΗΤΗΡʼ — mother, a mother
• ΜΗΤΗΡἘΝ — unknown
• ΜΗΤΡ — mother, a mother, (of) a mother, (to) a mother, womb, a womb, (of) a womb, (to) a womb
• ΜΗΤΡΙ — (to) mother, (to) a mother
• ΜΗΤΡΟΣ — of mother, of a mother, mother's
• ΜΗΤΡΩΑΣ — maternal, of a mother, mother's, of a stepmother, stepmother's
• ΜΗΤΡΩΟΣ — (of) a mother, (of) the mother, maternal, mother's
• ΜΗΤΩ — mother, a mother
• Μ‾ΗΡ‾ — mother, a mother
• Μ‾Η‾Ρ — Mother, a mother
• Μ‾ΡΑ‾ — mother, a mother
• Μ‾ΡΣ‾ — of mother, of a mother
• ΤΕΜΗΤΕΡΑ — mother, a mother
• ΤΗΝΜΗΤΕΡΑ — the mother
• ΤΗΣΜΗΤΡΟΣ — of the mother, of a mother
• ‾ΜΗΡ‾ — mother, a mother
• ‾ΜΗ‾Ρ — mother, a mother
• ‾ΜΡΑ‾ — mother, a mother
• ‾ΜΡΣ‾ — (of) mother, (of) a mother
• ‾ΜΡ‾Α — mother, a mother
• ‾ΜΡ‾Ι — (to) mother, (to) a mother
• ‾ΜΡ‾Σ — (of) mother, (of) a mother

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