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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 - for the LORD had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22 - Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty,[fn] who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2 - “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:19 - “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - “I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - They are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn, the first male offspring from every Israelite woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the LORD is yours. But you must redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:5 - But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!” But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew[fn] you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:17 - For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18 - Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26 - I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14 - Give them, LORD— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not relent. Because he pursued his brother with a sword and slaughtered the women of the land, because his anger raged continually and his fury flamed unchecked,
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