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Lexicon :: Strong's G3358 - metron

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μέτρον
Transliteration
metron (Key)
Pronunciation
met'-ron
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
An apparently primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:632,590

Strong’s Definitions

μέτρον métron, met'-ron; an apparently primary word; a measure ("metre"), literally or figuratively; by implication, a limited portion (degree):—measure.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's G3358 in the following manner: measure (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G3358 in the following manner: measure (13x).

  1. measure, an instrument for measuring

    1. a vessel for receiving and determining the quantity of things, whether dry or liquid

    2. a graduated staff for measuring, a measuring rod

    3. proverbially, the rule or standard of judgment

  2. determined extent, portion measured off, measure or limit

    1. the required measure, the due, fit, measure

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μέτρον métron, met'-ron; an apparently primary word; a measure ("metre"), literally or figuratively; by implication, a limited portion (degree):—measure.
STRONGS G3358:
μέτρον, μέτρου, τό, the Sept. chiefly for מִדָּה (cf. μήτηρ), measure;
1. an instrument for measuring;
a. a vessel for receiving and determining the quantity of things, whether dry or liquid: in proverbial discourse, μέτρειν μέτρῳ, of the measure of the benefits which one confers on others, Luke 6:38; μέτρον πεπιεσμένον καί σεσαλευμένον, figuratively equivalent to most abundant requital, ibid.; πληροῦν τό μέτρον τῶν πατέρων, to add what is lacking in order to fill up their ancestors' prescribed number of crimes, Matthew 23:32 (see πληρόω, 2 a.); ἐκ μέτρου (A. V. by measure; see ἐκ, V. 3) i. e. sparingly, John 3:34 (also ἐν μέτρῳ, Ezekiel 4:11).
b. a graduated staff for measuring, measuring-rod: Revelation 21:15; with ἀνθρώπου added (man's measure), such as men use, Revelation 21:17; hence, in proverbial discourse, the rule or standard of judgment: Matthew 7:2; Mark 4:24.
2. determined extent, portion measured off, measure or limit: with a genitive of the thing received, Romans 12:3; 2 Corinthians 10:13; (Ephesians 4:7); ἐν μέτρῳ, in proportion to the measure (cf. Winers Grammar, § 48, a. 3 b. and see ἐνέργεια; others, in due measure), Ephesians 4:16; the required measure, the due, fit, measure: τῆς ἡλικίας, the proper i. e. ripe, full age (see ἡλικία, 1 c.) (of a man), Ephesians 4:13 (ἡβης, Homer, Iliad 11, 225; Odyssey 11, 317; Solon 5, 52 (Poet. Min. Gr. (edited by Gaisford) 3:135)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ezekiel
4:11
Matthew
7:2; 23:32
Mark
4:24
Luke
6:38
John
3:34
Romans
12:3
2 Corinthians
10:13
Ephesians
4:7; 4:13; 4:16
Revelation
21:15; 21:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3358 matches the Greek μέτρον (metron),
which occurs 31 times in 28 verses in 'Eze' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11 - Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:16 - Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3 - And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:10 - And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:21 - And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24 - After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28 - And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:29 - And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32 - And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33 - And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35 - And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:11 - And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:13 - And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:10 - Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:11 - The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:13 - This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:22 - In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:16 - And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:30 - And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:33 - And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:34 - At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
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