2001 Translation

MĒTRASIN, mētrasin

Sounds Like: MEE-trah-sin

Translations: to mothers, for mothers, to wombs, for wombs, to matrices, for matrices

From the root: ΜΗΤΡΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a mother, or more broadly, to the womb or matrix. It is used here in the dative plural, indicating the indirect object of an action, meaning "to/for mothers" or "to/for wombs/matrices." It can refer to the physical organ or metaphorically to the origin or source of something.

Inflection: Dative, Plural, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3388 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:27

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• Lamentations — 2:12

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 6 — 1:11

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Lamentations — 2:12

From the same root

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

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.

• ΜΗΤΡΑ — womb, a womb, mother, a mother
• ΜΗΤΡΑΝ — womb, a womb, mother, a mother
• ΜΗΤΡΑΣ — of a womb, of the womb, of a mother's womb
• ΜΗΤΡΑΣΙ — (to) wombs, (to) mothers

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