mētrolōos

Strong’sG3389

a matricide

stem mētrolō-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.

* μητρολῴας (Rec. -αλῴας, in cl., -αλοίας, v. Bl., § 3, 3; 6, 2), -ου, ὁ

(< μήτρρ + ἀλοιάω, to smite);

(a) a matricide: I Ti 1:9 (AV, R, txt., but v. infr.);

(b) a smiter of his mother: I Ti 1:9 (R, mg., cf. Ex 21:15, and v. Ellic., CGT, in l.).†

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

Saidmay-tral-o'-as

a mother-thresher, i.e. matricide

Fromfrom G3384 and the base of G257;

King Jamesmurderer of mothers.

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

μητρ-ᾰλοίας, ου, ὁ,
(ἀλοιάω) striking one's mother: hence, matricide, Refs 5th c.BC+:—also written μητρολῴας or μητρ-λώας, 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.

the one who kills … mother1×

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	mētrolōos	mētrolōois
object accusative	mētrolōon	mētrolōoin
direct address vocative	mētrolōor	mētrolōoir
of, belonging to genitive	mētrolōou	mētrolōoiu
to, for dative	mētrolōo	mētrolōoi1×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

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

mētrolōo 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

mētrolōoi“the one who kills … mother”to, fordative plural1×

1 Timothy 1:9… hamartōloi, anosioi kai bebēloi, patrolōoi kai mētrolōoi, androfonoi,… profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,