ΜΗΤΗΡʼ, μητηρʼ
MĒTĒRʼ, mētērʼ
Sounds Like: MEE-tare
Translations: mother, a mother
From the root: ΜΗΤΗΡ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a female parent. In ancient Greek, it is commonly used to denote a biological mother, but can also be used metaphorically for a source or origin. The apostrophe at the end (keraia) indicates that this word is being used as a numeral, representing the number 400. However, given the context of the example usage, it is much more likely that the apostrophe is a coronis, indicating an elision, meaning the word was originally ΜΗΤΗΡ followed by a vowel that has been dropped. In this case, it functions as the nominative singular form of 'mother'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative (or potentially Vocative), Feminine. The apostrophe indicates either a numeral (400) or an elision of a following vowel.
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
- 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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