noun · feminine
litras
Strong’sG3046
a Roman pound
stem litr-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† λίτρα, -ας, ἡ
(cf. Lat. libra),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3046 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlee'-trah
a pound in weight
Fromof Latin origin (libra);
King Jamespound.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
a silver coin of Sicily, Refs 5th c.BC+
II as a weight, Refsa pound, [Refs 4th c.BC+ having lived a pound of years, i.e. Refs 6th c.AD+
III measure of capacity, = Refs 2nd c.AD+. [ῑ as in Latin libra; written λείτρα in Refs and Latin libra probably from early Italic *līprā.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | litras | litrais |
| object accusative | litran1×λίτραν | litrain1×λίτρας |
| direct address vocative | litrar | litrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | litrau | litraiu |
| to, for dative | litra | litrai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
litra is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
litran“pound”objectaccusative singular1×
John 12:3“pound”tas oun Mariam labarantas litran mureu nardau pistikau polutimau aleifata toin …Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was …
litrain“pounds”objectaccusative plural1×
John 19:39… ferarōntos migmem smurnau kai aloau hōs litrain hekaton.… of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.