meristos

Strong’sG3312

a divider, distributor

stem merist-once in the New Testament1 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.

*† μεριστής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< μερίζω),

a divider: Lk 12:14.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3312 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmer-is-tace'

an apportioner (administrator)

Fromfrom G3307;

King Jamesdivider.

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

μερ-ιστής, οῦ, ὁ,
divider, distributor, NT+2nd c.AD+; μ. χρόνων ζωῆς, of the lord of the horoscope, Refs 2nd c.AD+:—feminine μερ-ίστρια, Refs 4th c.BC+

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.

arbitrator1×

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	meristos	meristois
object accusative	meriston1×μεριστὴν	meristoin
direct address vocative	meristor	meristoir
of, belonging to genitive	meristou	meristoiu
to, for dative	meristo	meristoi

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

meriststem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

meristo 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

meriston“arbitrator”objectaccusative singular1×

Luke 12:14“arbitrator”… Anthrōpor, tinos min katastēata kriton ē meriston epi vin?… Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed Me judge or executor between you?”