noun · feminine
mētras
Greekμήτρα (mētra)
Strong’sG3388
the womb
stem mētr-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
μήτρα, -ας, ἡ
(< μήτηρ), [in LXX chiefly for רֶחֶם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3388 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmay'-trah
the matrix
Fromfrom G3384;
King Jameswomb.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | mētras | mētrais |
| object accusative | mētran1×μήτραν | mētrain |
| direct address vocative | mētrar | mētrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mētrau1×μήτρας | mētraiu |
| to, for dative | mētra | mētrai |
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
mētra 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
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
mētran“womb”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 2:23“womb”kathōs grafitē en nomo kuriou hoti Pantem arsēnem dianoigarōtem mētran hagiem to kurio kaliti,(as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),
mētrau“womb”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Romans 4:19“womb”kai mē asthenaratos ta pistia katanoata tem heautou sōmem nekrirētem, hekatontaetos pou huparcharōtos, kai tan nekrōsian tau mētrau Sarrau,Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.