2001 Translation

MĒTROS, mētros

Sounds Like: MAY-tros

Translations: of mother, of a mother, mother's

From the root: ΜΗΤΗΡ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: ΜΗΤΡΟΣ is the genitive singular form of the noun ΜΗΤΗΡ, meaning 'mother'. It is used to indicate possession, origin, or relationship, similar to how 'of mother' or 'mother's' is used in English. For example, 'the house of the mother' or 'the mother's house'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3384 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:8, 2:13, 2:78, 2:80, 4:58

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judges — 8:19, 9:1
• Judith — 8:26
• Tobit — 6:15
• 4 Maccabees — 1:8, 1:10, 8:3, 8:20
• Psalms — 21:10, 21:11, 49:20, 68:9, 70:6, 108:14
• Proverbs — 1:8, 4:3, 6:20, 30:17
• Ecclesiastes — 5:14
• Song of Solomon — 1:6, 3:4, 8:1, 8:2
• Job — 3:10, 3:16, 42:17
• Wisdom — 7:1
• Sirach — 7:27
• Isaiah — 49:1, 50:1
• Matthew — 1:18, 2:11, 10:35
• Luke — 1:15
• John — 3:4, 19:25
• Acts of the Apostles — 3:2, 12:12, 14:8
• Galatians — 1:15
• Shepherd of Hermas — 16:5

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 12:216, 16:250, 19:278, 19:290, 19:292, 19:295, 19:296, 19:315, 19:319
• Book 2 — 9:221
• Book 4 — 8:250
• Book 5 — 8:233
• Book 7 — 1:21, 8:162, 8:180, 10:232
• Book 8 — 2:32, 3:76
• Book 9 — 3:34, 9:186, 10:216, 11:236
• Book 10 — 3:37, 3:46, 5:81, 6:98, 7:101
• Book 11 — 8:316
• Book 12 — 6:160
• Book 13 — 8:233, 10:278, 11:317, 12:328
• Book 14 — 1:5, 5:90, 13:356, 14:387
• Book 15 — 6:179, 6:180, 7:258
• Book 16 — 1:9, 3:66, 3:67, 3:70, 3:72, 3:73, 3:84, 4:109, 7:191
• Book 17 — 1:9, 2:35, 3:51, 4:70, 5:83, 5:86, 5:121, 9:219
• Book 18 — 2:42, 2:43, 6:143, 6:144, 6:156, 6:164, 6:165

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:2, 9:10, 14:17, 24:2, 27:9, 29:2, 29:6, 30:2, 31:4, 32:8, 33:1
• Book Two — 2:1
• Book Five — 6:6
• Book Six — 3:35

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 22:10, 46:3, 98:3, 102:1, 102:2

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 1:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 20:12, 24:28, 24:67, 28:2, 28:5, 28:7, 29:1, 29:10, 49:26
• Exodus — 23:19, 34:26
• Leviticus — 18:7, 18:9, 18:13, 20:17, 20:19, 24:11
• Numbers — 12:12
• Deuteronomy — 13:6, 14:20, 21:18, 27:22
• Judges — 8:19, 9:1, 9:3, 16:17
• Ruth — 1:8
• 1 Samuel — 20:30
• 2 Samuel — 17:25, 19:37
• 1 Kings — 12:24, 14:21, 15:2, 15:10, 16:28, 22:53
• 2 Kings — 8:26, 9:22, 12:1, 14:2, 15:33
• 2 Chronicles — 12:13, 27:1, 36:2, 36:5
• Judith — 8:26
• Tobit — 6:15, 6:15
• 2 Maccabees — 7:1, 7:4
• 4 Maccabees — 1:8, 1:10, 8:3, 8:20, 12:7
• Psalms — 21:10, 21:11, 49:20, 68:9, 70:6, 108:14, 138:13
• Psalms of Solomon — 3:11, 8:10
• Odes — 3:1
• Proverbs — 1:8, 4:3, 6:20, 24:52
• Ecclesiastes — 5:14
• Song of Solomon — 1:6, 3:4, 8:1, 8:2
• Job — 1:21, 3:10, 3:16, 31:18, 38:8, 42:17
• Wisdom — 7:1
• Sirach — 3:2, 3:9, 7:27, 23:14, 40:1, 41:17
• Isaiah — 49:1, 50:1
• Ezekiel — 16:45, 23:2

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 3 — 8:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 1:18, 2:11, 10:35, 14:8, 19:12
• Luke — 1:15
• John — 3:4, 19:25
• Acts — 3:2, 12:12, 14:8
• Galatians — 1:15

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
• ΜΗΤΕΡΑ — 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
• 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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