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noun · neuter

Greekσιτομέτριον (sitometrion)
Biblang

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),

a measured portion of food: Lk 12:42 (for exx. in π., v. Deiss., BS, 158; LAE, 1031).†

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

Saidsit-om'-et-ron

a grain-measure, i.e. (by implication) ration (allowance of food)

Fromfrom G4621 and G3358;

King Jamesportion of meat.

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
σῑτομετρ-ία, ἡ,
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.

food allowance1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject or object directsitometriemsitometrieim
of, belonging to genitivesitometrieusitometrieiu
to, for dativesitometriesitometriei

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
sitometristem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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?