metrētos

Strong’sG3355

a measure, amphora

stem metrēt-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.

μετρητής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< μετρέω), [in LXX: III Ki 18:32 (סְאָה), II Ch 4:5, (בַּת), etc.;]

1. a measurer (Plat.).

2. = ἀμφορεύς, an Attic measure, = 1 1⁄2 Roman amphoræ or about 9 Eng. gallons: Jo 2:6.†

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

Strong’s G3355 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmet-ray-tace'

a measurer, i.e. (specially), a certain standard measure of capacity for liquids

Fromfrom G3354;

King Jamesfirkin.

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

μετρ-ητής, οῦ, ὁ,
measurer, Refs 5th c.BC+; μετρηταὶ στρατοπέδων, = Latin metatores castrorum, Refs 1st c.AD+
II a liquid measure, = {ἀμφορεύς}, Refs 5th c.BC+ “*Mens.” 9, etc.; of the Hebrew bath, LXX+NT

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.

measures1×

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	metrētos	metrētois
object accusative	metrēton	metrētoin1×μετρητὰς
direct address vocative	metrētor	metrētoir
of, belonging to genitive	metrētou	metrētoiu
to, for dative	metrēto	metrētoi

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

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

metrēto 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

metrētoin“measures”objectaccusative plural1×

John 2:6“measures”… katharismon toiu Ioudaioiu keiorōntais, chōrarōntais ana metrētoin duo ē treis.… had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold …