μετά
with
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Where this word appears
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Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word governing a noun in a particular case.
Every verse where G3326 appears in the Book of Acts — 63 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 1:3 μετὰ prep To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.
- Acts 1:5 μετὰ prep For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
- Acts 1:26 μετὰ prep They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
- Acts 2:28 μετὰ prep You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.'
- Acts 2:29 μετὰ prep "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- Acts 4:29 μετὰ prep Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
- Acts 4:31 μετὰ prep When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
- Acts 5:26 μετὰ prep Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
- Acts 5:37 μετὰ prep After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
- Acts 7:4 μετὰ prep Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.
- Acts 7:5 μετ’ prep He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.
- Acts 7:7 μετὰ prep 'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'
- Acts 7:9 μετ’ prep "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
- Acts 7:38 μετὰ prep This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,
- Acts 7:45 μετὰ prep which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
- Acts 9:19 μετὰ prep He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
- Acts 9:28 μετ’ prep He was with them entering into Jerusalem,
- Acts 9:39 μετ’ prep Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
- Acts 10:37 μετὰ prep that spoken word you yourselves know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
- Acts 10:38 μετ’ prep even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
- Acts 10:41 μετὰ prep not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
- Acts 11:21 μετ’ prep The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
- Acts 12:4 μετὰ prep When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
- Acts 13:15 μετὰ prep After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
- Acts 13:17 μετὰ prep The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
- Acts 13:20 μετὰ prep After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
- Acts 13:25 μετ’ prep As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
- Acts 14:23 μετὰ prep When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
- Acts 14:27 μετ’ prep When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
- Acts 15:4 μετ’ prep When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
- Acts 15:13 Μετὰ prep After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me.
- Acts 15:16 μετὰ prep 'After these things I will return. I will again build the tent of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,
- Acts 15:33 μετ’ prep After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.
- Acts 15:35 μετὰ prep But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
- Acts 15:36 Μετὰ prep After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."
- Acts 17:11 μετὰ prep Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
- Acts 18:1 Μετὰ prep After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
- Acts 18:10 μετὰ prep for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."
- Acts 19:4 μετ’ prep Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus."
- Acts 19:21 μετὰ prep Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."
- Acts 20:1 Μετὰ prep After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
- Acts 20:6 μετὰ prep We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
- Acts 20:18 μεθ’ prep When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
- Acts 20:19 μετὰ prep serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
- Acts 20:29 μετὰ prep For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
- Acts 20:31 μετὰ prep Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
- Acts 20:34 μετ’ prep You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.
- Acts 21:15 Μετὰ prep After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
- Acts 24:1 Μετὰ μετὰ prep prep After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
- Acts 24:3 μετὰ prep we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
- Acts 24:18 μετὰ μετὰ prep prep amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
- Acts 24:24 Μετὰ prep But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
- Acts 25:1 μετὰ prep Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
- Acts 25:12 μετὰ prep Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go."
- Acts 25:23 μετὰ prep So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
- Acts 26:12 μετ’ prep "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
- Acts 27:10 μετὰ prep and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."
- Acts 27:14 μετ’ prep But before long, a tempestuous wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.
- Acts 27:24 μετὰ prep saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
- Acts 28:11 Μετὰ prep After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was "The Twin Brothers."
- Acts 28:13 μετὰ prep From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,
- Acts 28:17 μετὰ prep It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
- Acts 28:31 μετὰ prep preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hinderance.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“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
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.
- #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 →
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- with, after, behind
Word origin
Origin: a primary preposition (often used adverbially)
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
- μεθερμηνευω methermēneúō G3177 to interpret
- μεθιστημι methístēmi G3179 to transfer
- μεθοδεια methodeía G3180 deceit
- μεθοριος methórios G3181 border
- μεσος mésos G3319 middle
- μεταβαινω metabaínō G3327 to pass over
- μεταβαλλω metabállō G3328 to turn around
- μεταγω metágō G3329 to transfer
- μεταδιδωμι metadídōmi G3330 to impart
- μεταιρω metaírō G3332 to remove
- μετακαλεω metakaléō G3333 to summon
- μετακινεω metakinéō G3334 to move away
- μεταλαμβανω metalambánō G3335 to partake
- μεταλλασσω metallássō G3337 to exchange
- μεταμελλομαι metaméllomai G3338 it is a care
- μεταμορφοω metamorphóō G3339 to transform
- μετανοεω metanoéō G3340 to repent
- μεταξυ metaxý G3342 between
- μεταπεμπω metapémpō G3343 to send for
- μεταστρεφω metastréphō G3344 to turn around
- μετασχηματιζω metaschēmatízō G3345 to transform
- μετατιθημι metatíthēmi G3346 to transpose
- μετεπειτα metépeita G3347 afterwards
- μετεχω metéchō G3348 to partake
+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
- Genesis 3:6 μετά
- Exodus 1:14 μετά
- Leviticus 5:3 μετά
- Numbers 1:4 μετά
- Deuteronomy 1:4 μετά
- Joshua 1:1 μετά
- Judges 1:1 μετά
- Ruth 1:7 μετά
- 1 Samuel 1:9 μετά
- 2 Samuel 1:1 μετά
- 1 Kings 1:2 μετά
- 2 Kings 1:1 μετά
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.
- Genesis 3:6 μετά When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:12 μετά The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 4:3 μετά As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.
- Genesis 5:4 μετά The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:7 μετά Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:10 μετά Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:13 μετά Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:16 μετά Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:19 μετά Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:22 μετά Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:26 μετά Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:30 μετά Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 6:4 μετά The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:18 μετά But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 6:19 μετά Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
- Genesis 6:20 μετά Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
- Genesis 7:7 μετά Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 7:10 μετά It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:13 μετά In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;
- Genesis 7:23 μετά Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 8:1 μετά God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Genesis 8:3 μετά The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
- Genesis 8:6 μετά It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
- Genesis 8:16 μετά "Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 8:17 μετά Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 8:18 μετά Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
- Genesis 9:8 μετά God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
- Genesis 9:9 μετά "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- Genesis 9:10 μετά and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth.
- Genesis 9:12 μετά God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:28 μετά Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 10:1 μετά Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- Genesis 10:18 μετά the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
- Genesis 10:32 μετά These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Genesis 11:10 μετά This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:11 μετά Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:13 μετά Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:15 μετά and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:17 μετά Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:19 μετά Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:21 μετά Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:23 μετά Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:25 μετά Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 12:4 μετά So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
- Genesis 12:20 μετά Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
- Genesis 13:1 μετά Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
- Genesis 13:5 μετά Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- Genesis 13:14 μετά Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- Genesis 14:2 μετά that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
- Genesis 14:5 μετά In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
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.
