noun · feminine
mētras
Strong’sG3388
the womb
stem mētr-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
AIonic dialect μήτρη, ἡ, (μήτηρ) womb, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+ [same place]: the cervix including the orifice of the womb, Refs 4th c.BC+
A.2 a swine's matrix, reckoned a great dainty, μήτρας τόμοις Refs 5th c.BC+
A.3 metaphorically, source, origin, Refs 1st c.AD+
A.II core, heart-wood of trees, Refs 4th c.BC+
A.II.b diseased condition of the wood, 'soft-wood', Refs
A.III queen-wasp, opposed to ἐργάται, Refs 4th c.BC+
A.IV μ. χελωνίων, χελωνίοις, bolts for locks, Refs 2nd c.AD+; μ. θύρας, = repagulum, Refs
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 | 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
mētran“womb”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 2:23“womb”… nomo kuriou hoti Pantem arsenem dianoigarōntem mētran hagiem to kurio kaliti,… in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),
mētrau“womb”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Romans 4:19… pou huparcharōntos, kai tan nekrōsian tau mētrau Sarrau,… old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.