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μετά

with

G3326 Strong's Greek
metá Transliteration
/met-ah'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 469 appearances

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About this entry

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“with” is the headline sense of the Greek preposition μετα (metá). Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:12. The Greek New Testament uses it across 441 verses — common. Related forms include μεθερμηνευω, μεθιστημι and μεθοδεια. See the sense tree, 441-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
after
Modern gloss
with
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3326 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

441
distinct verses
The word appears in 441 distinct verses.
24 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 24 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:12
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:12.
Revelation 22:21
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:21.
#43
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 43 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 441 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 235 · 53%
  • Acts 63 · 14%
  • Pauline Epistles 67 · 15%
  • General Epistles 33 · 7%
  • Revelation 43 · 10%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 441 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 235 verses · 53%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 125 verses · 28%
  • Johannine 103 verses · 23%
  • Pauline corpus 67 verses · 15%
  • Revelation 43 verses · 10%
  • Hebrews 23 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 10 verses · 2%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: With 307×, After 84×, Be with 20×
  • American Standard Version: With 304×, After 85×, Be with 18×
  • Berean Standard Bible: With 265×, After 72×, Along with 10×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: With 329×, After 102×, Be with 20×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3326 across 466 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 307×
  • “After” 84×
  • “Be with” 20×
  • “Among” 5×
  • “Is with” 5×
  • “Against” 4×
  • “Hereafter” 4×
  • “They that were with” 4×
  • “Afterward” 3×
  • “Were with” 3×
  • “In” 2×
  • “Of” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 7 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3326 across 458 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 304×
  • “After” 85×
  • “Be with” 18×
  • “Is with” 5×
  • “Against” 4×
  • “Among” 4×
  • “Now after” 3×
  • “Afterward” 2×
  • “One with” 2×
  • “Towards” 2×

Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3326 across 413 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 265×
  • “After” 72×
  • “Along with” 10×
  • “Later” 9×
  • “Against” 8×
  • “To” 8×
  • “In” 6×
  • “Among” 4×
  • “Afterward” 3×
  • “And” 3×
  • “Accompanied by” 2×
  • “Away” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 43 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3326 across 473 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “With” 329×
  • “After” 102×
  • “Be with” 20×
  • “Is with” 5×
  • “Against” 4×
  • “Among” 4×
  • “To” 3×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. with, after, behind

Word origin

Origin: a primary preposition (often used adverbially)

Part of speech: Preposition TDNT: 19:46,1

A primary preposition (often used adverbially); properly denoting accompaniment ; amid (local or causal); modified variously according to the case (genitive case association or accusative case succession ) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between G575 or G1537 and G1519 or G4314 ; less intimate than G1722 and less close than G4862)i : - after (-ward)6X that he again against among X and + follow hence hereafter in of (up-) on + our X and setting since (un-) to + together when with (+ -out). Often used in composition in substantially the same relations of participation or proximity and transfer or sequence .

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms G3326 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
μετὰ metà Preposition Matthew 1:12 270
μετ’ met Preposition Matthew 2:3 132
μεθ’ meth Preposition Matthew 1:23 43
Μετὰ Metà Preposition Mark 1:14 24

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3326, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derived from this word

+3 more words derive from G3326 (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 28 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word μετα appears 1,794 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,552 verses in 36 books.

1,794
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
1,552
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
36 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3326) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,552. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3326) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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