2001 Translation

METRĒTAI, metrētai

Sounds Like: meh-tray-TAI

Translations: firkins, measures, baths

From the root: ΜΕΤΡΗΤΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a specific unit of liquid measure, equivalent to about 8.75 gallons or 39.4 liters. It was commonly used in ancient Greece and the Near East for liquids like wine or oil. In the provided context, it would refer to a quantity of something being measured.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative or Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3355 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Daniel (Theodotion) — 14:3
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ΜΕΤΡΗΤΑΣ — firkins, a firkin, measures, a measure
• ΜΕΤΡΗΤΗΣ — firkin, a firkin, measure, a measure
• ΜΕΤΡΗΤΟΥΣ — measures, a measure, baths, a bath
• ΜΕΤΡΗΤΩΝ — of measures, of baths, of a measure, of a bath

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