noun · masculine

metrētos

Greekμετρητής (metrētēs)

Strong’sG3355

a measure, amphora

stem metrēt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

measures1×

What it means

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.

Every form

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

metrētoin“measures”objectaccusative plural1×

John 2:6“measures”ale de ekei lithinais hudriais hex kata ton katharismon toiu Ioudaioiu keierōtais, chōrarōtais ana metrētoin duo ē treis.Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.