noun · neuter
sitometriem
Strong’sG4620
a measured portion of grain or food
stem sitometri-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.
*† σιτομέτριον, -ου, τό
(< σιτομετρέω, Ge 47:12, 14 *, = Attic τὸν σῖτον μετρέω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4620 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
measured allowance of corn, rations, Refs 3rd c.BC+, Mélanges Glotz Refs 2nd c.BC+: so σῑτομέτρ-ιον, τό, NT; ἔπαρχος -μετρίου δήμου Ῥωμαίων, = Latin praefectus annonae, Refs; σῑτομέτρ-μετρον, τό, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 or object direct | sitometriem | sitometrieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sitometrieu | sitometrieiu |
| to, for dative | sitometrie | sitometriei |
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
sitometrie 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
sitometriem1×
Luke 12:42“food allowance”… autou teu dōarō en kairo tem sitometriem?… charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time?