2001 Translation

METAXY, metaxy

Sounds Like: meh-TAHK-soo

Translations: between, among, while, meanwhile

From the root: ΜΕΤΑΞΥ

Part of Speech: Preposition, Adverb

Explanation: This word functions as a preposition or an adverb. As a preposition, it means 'between' or 'among', indicating a position or relationship between two or more things or people. It can also be used adverbially to mean 'in the meantime' or 'while'. For example, it can describe something located spatially between two points, or an event occurring temporally between two other events.

Inflection: Does not inflect

Strong’s number: G3342 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 14:11, 18:3

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 13:5

Clement of Alexandria

• To the Newly Baptized — 1:2

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 44:2, 44:3, 63:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Wisdom — 4:10, 16:19, 18:23
• Matthew — 18:15, 23:35
• Luke — 16:26
• John — 4:31
• Acts of the Apostles — 12:6, 13:42, 15:9
• Romans — 2:15

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 7:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 17:113, 21:157, 26:231, 31:284, 2:25
• Book Two — 2:25

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 7:169, 10:250, 15:324
• Book 3 — 1:25, 6:147
• Book 4 — 5:95, 8:305
• Book 5 — 1:97
• Book 6 — 6:119, 6:126, 9:170, 9:172, 9:177
• Book 7 — 1:12, 8:179, 9:218, 10:248, 10:250
• Book 8 — 2:26, 2:32, 3:73, 3:84, 4:103, 6:147, 6:155, 13:320, 13:337
• Book 9 — 1:11, 9:197, 10:225
• Book 10 — 3:45, 4:60, 11:233, 11:269
• Book 11 — 6:242
• Book 12 — 3:130, 6:233, 10:404
• Book 13 — 5:154, 8:241, 12:340
• Book 14 — 10:195, 15:434, 15:463
• Book 15 — 7:234, 9:333, 10:360
• Book 16 — 7:222
• Book 20 — 2:31

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:15, 20:17, 21:15, 22:7, 22:9, 32:6, 33:10
• Book Two — 11:8
• Book Three — 10:1
• Book Four — 3:60
• Book Five — 3:19, 4:8, 5:17, 6:7, 7:13
• Book Six — 2:58, 3:2
• Book Seven — 8:111

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 26:1

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 7:2

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 16:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Wisdom — 4:10, 16:19, 18:23
• Enoch — 14:11, 18:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 18:15, 23:35
• Luke — 11:51, 16:26
• John — 4:31
• Acts — 12:6, 13:42, 15:9
• Romans — 2:15

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 1:1

From the same root

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

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.

• ΜΕΤΑΞΑΙ — between, among, meanwhile, in the meantime
• ΜΕΤΑΞΥΔΕ — but in the meantime, and meanwhile, however in between
• ΜΕΤΟΞΥ — between, among, while, meanwhile, during

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