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Lexicon :: Strong's G3390 - mētropolis

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μητρόπολις
Transliteration
mētropolis (Key)
Pronunciation
may-trop'-ol-is
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

μητρόπολις mētrópolis, may-trop'-ol-is; from G3384 and G4172; a mother city, i.e. "metropolis":—chiefest city.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G3390 in the following manner: chiefest city (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G3390 in the following manner: chiefest city (1x).
  1. a metropolis, a chief city

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μητρόπολις mētrópolis, may-trop'-ol-is; from G3384 and G4172; a mother city, i.e. "metropolis":—chiefest city.
STRONGS G3390:
μητρόπολις, μητροπολεως, (μήτηρ and πόλις), a metropolis, chief city; in the spurious subscription 1 Timothy 6:(22) at the end; (in this sense from Xenophon down).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Timothy
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Strong's Number G3390 matches the Greek μητρόπολις (mētropolis),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - he[fn] feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.[fn] (Arba[fn] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:13 - According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:11 - They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:19 - I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And I will restore your judges as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness,
the faithful city.”
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