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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 71 times in 66 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 18:6–Eze 45:10)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “[fn]Hurry, prepare [fn]three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and make bread cakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:36 - (Now an [fn]omer is a tenth of an [fn]ephah.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:2 - “The length of each curtain shall be [fn]twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four [fn]cubits; all the curtains shall have [fn]the same measurements.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:8 - “The length of each curtain shall be [fn]thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have [fn]the same measurements.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:35 -

‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or in volume.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:6 - “You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also bargain with them for water with money so that you may drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:14 - “You shall not have in your house [fn]differing measures, a large and a small.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15 - “You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just [fn]measure, that your days may be prolonged in the [fn]land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:25 - The other cherub was also ten cubits; both the cherubim were of the same measure and the same form.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:11 - And above were precious stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:37 - He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 -

Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of Yahweh; thus says Yahweh, ‘About this time tomorrow a [fn]seah of fine flour will be sold for a [fn]shekel, and two [fn]seahs of barley for a [fn]shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:16 -

So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a [fn]seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two [fn]seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:18 - So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two [fn]seahs of barley for a shekel and a [fn]seah of fine flour for a shekel will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - ‘And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the level of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish—he wipes it and turns it upside down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:29 - and with the showbread, and the fine flour for a grain offering, and unleavened wafers, or what is made on the griddle, or what is well stirred, and all measures of volume and size.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - “And behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, [fn]20,000 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 kors of barley, and [fn]20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:19 - Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, the official of Mizpah, repaired another section in front of the ascent of the armory at the Angle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:20 - After him Baruch the son of Zabbai zealously repaired another section, from the Angle to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:21 - After him Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another section, from the doorway of Eliashib’s house even as far as the end of Eliashib’s house.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:24 - After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah as far as the Angle and as far as the corner.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - After [fn]them the Tekoites repaired another section in front of the great projecting tower and as far as the wall of Ophel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:30 - After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs in front of his own [fn]quarters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:9 -

“Its measure is longer than the earth

And broader than the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:25 -

“When He set weight to the wind

And meted out the waters by measure,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:5 -

Who set its measurements? Since you know.

Or who stretched the line on it?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:5 -

You have fed them with the bread of tears,

And You have made them to drink tears in [fn]large measure.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:10 -

[fn]Differing weights and differing measures,

Both of them are an abomination to Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 -

“For ten [fn]acres of vineyard will yield only one [fn]bath of wine,

And a [fn]homer of seed will yield but an [fn]ephah of grain.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13 - Another crafts wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with [fn]a stylus. He makes it with planes and outlines it with a compass and makes it like the form of a man, like the glory of man, so that it may sit in a house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 -

Heth

Yahweh [fn]determined to bring to ruin

The wall of the daughter of Zion.

He has stretched out a line;

He has not turned His hand back from swallowing up,

And He has caused rampart and wall to mourn;

They have languished together.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11 - “The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a [fn]hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:16 - Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in desolation
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3 - So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring [fn]rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 -

And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house of Yahweh all around, and in the man’s hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a [fn]cubit and a [fn]handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the [fn]wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:10 - The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:21 - [fn]It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches [fn]had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was [fn]fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24 -

Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to [fn]those same measurements.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28 -

Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:29 - Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And [fn]the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32 -

Then he brought me into the inner court toward the east. And he measured the gate according to those same measurements.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33 - Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And [fn]the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35 -

Then he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:11 - The way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, according to their length so was their width, and all their exits were both according to their [fn]arrangements and openings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured on the east [fn]side with the measuring reed 500 reeds by the measuring reed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured on the north side 500 reeds by the measuring reed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - On the south side he measured 500 reeds with the measuring reed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - He turned to the west side and measured 500 reeds with the measuring reed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:13 -

“And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a [fn]cubit and a [fn]handbreadth): the [fn]base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge round about one [fn]span; and this shall be the height of the [fn]base of the altar.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:10 -

“You shall have just balances, a just [fn]ephah, and a just [fn]bath.


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