‾ΜΗΡ‾, ‾μηρ‾
‾MĒR‾, ‾mēr‾
Sounds Like: ME-ter
Translations: mother, a mother
From the root: ΜΗΤΗΡ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a scribal abbreviation for ΜΗΤΗΡ (METER), meaning 'mother'. It refers to a female parent. In ancient Greek texts, this abbreviation was commonly used to save space and time in writing. It is used in sentences similarly to how 'mother' is used in English, often referring to a biological mother or a maternal figure.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3384 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
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
- 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
- ‾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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