noun · masculine
mētrolōaos
Greekμητρολῴας (mētrolōas)
Strong’sG3389
a matricide
stem mētrolōa-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
* μητρολῴας (Rec. -αλῴας, in cl., -αλοίας, v. Bl., § 3, 3; 6, 2), -ου, ὁ
(< μήτρρ + ἀλοιάω, to smite);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3389 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | mētrolōaos | mētrolōaois |
| object accusative | mētrolōaon | mētrolōaoin |
| direct address vocative | mētrolōaor | mētrolōaoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mētrolōaou | mētrolōaoiu |
| to, for dative | mētrolōao | mētrolōaoi1×μητρολῴαις |
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
mētrolōao 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
mētrolōaoi“the one who kills … mother”to, fordative plural1×
1 Timothy 1:9“the one who kills … mother”horarētos houtem, hoti dikaio nomos ouk keietō, anomoi de kai anupotaktoi, aseboi kai hamartōloi, anosioi kai bebēloi, patrolōaoi kai mētrolōaoi, androfonoi,We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,