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Lexicon :: Strong's G3388 - mētra

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μήτρα
Transliteration
mētra (Key)
Pronunciation
may'-trah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
2x in 2 unique form(s) TR
2x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
28x in 4 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

μήτρα mḗtra, may'-trah; from G3384; the matrix:—womb.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G3388 in the following manner: womb (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G3388 in the following manner: womb (2x).

  1. the womb

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μήτρα mḗtra, may'-trah; from G3384; the matrix:—womb.
STRONGS G3388:
μήτρα, μήτρας, ἡ (μήτηρ), the womb: Luke 2:23 (on which see διανοίγω, 1); Romans 4:19. (Herodotus, Plato, others; the Sept. for רֶחֶם.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
2:23
Romans
4:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3388 matches the Greek μήτρα (mētra),
which occurs 28 times in 26 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarrha Abraam's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22 - And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and he opened her womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - and my God helped thee, and he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2 - [fn] Sanctify to me every first-born, first produced, opening every womb among the children of Israel both of man and beast: it is mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - that thou shalt [fn]set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, every one that opens the womb out of the herds or among thy cattle, as many as thou shalt have: thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - Every offspring opening the womb of the ass thou shalt change for a sheep; and if thou wilt not change it, thou shalt redeem it: every first-born of man of thy sons shalt thou redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - And when Pharao hardened his heart so as not to send us away, he slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man and the first-born of beast; therefore do I sacrifice every offspring that opens the womb, the males to the Lord, and every first-born of my sons I will redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:19 - The males are mine, everything that opens the womb; every first-born of [fn]oxen, and every first-born of sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - For these are given to me for a present out of the midst of the children of Israel: I have taken them to myself instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel that open every womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - And every thing that opens the womb of all flesh, whatsoever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be thine: only the first-born of men shall be surely redeemed, and thou shalt redeem the first-born of unclean cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and went in after the Israelitish man into the [fn]chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:5 - And to Anna he gave [fn]a prime portion, because she had no child, only Helkana loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her [fn]bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - (LXX 21:11) I was cast on thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - (LXX 57:4) Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee; I appointed thee a prophet to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:17 - because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18 - Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26 - And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14 - Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.
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