noun · feminine
metochas
Strong’sG3352
sharing, partnership, fellowship
stem metoch-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.
μετοχή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< μετέχω), [in LXX: Ps 121 (122):3 א R (חבר pu.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3352 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmet-okh-ay'
participation, i.e. intercourse
Fromfrom G3348;
King Jamesfellowship.
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
(μετέχω) sharing, participation, Refs 5th c.BC+; περὶ μετοχῆς τοῦ παραδείσου their shares in the orchard, Refs 3rd c.BC+; παρουσία καὶ μ. Refs 1st c.AD+; τίς μ. δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀνομί; NT; κατὰ μετοχήν in virtue of participation in something else, Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ μετοχήν τε καὶ μετουσίαν τῆς ἰδέας Polyxenus cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 Astrology texts, joint possession or occupation by two planets, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 partaking of food, τῇ τῶν ζῴων μετοχῇ lamb.Refs
4 partnership, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II Grammars, participle, Refs 2nd c.BC+
III compactness, LXX
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 | metochas1×μετοχὴ | metochais |
| object accusative | metochan | metochain |
| direct address vocative | metochar | metochair |
| of, belonging to genitive | metochau | metochaiu |
| to, for dative | metocha | metochai |
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
metocha 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
metochas“partnership”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Corinthians 6:14Mē genovōr heterozugarōntois apistoi; tinas gar metochas dikaiosuna kai anomia, ē tinas koinōnias …… unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or …