μετά
with
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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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 Luke — 62 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.
Luke
- Luke 1:24 μετὰ prep After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,
- Luke 1:28 μετὰ prep Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!"
- Luke 1:39 μετὰ prep Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
- Luke 1:58 μετ’ prep Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.
- Luke 1:66 μετ’ prep All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
- Luke 1:72 μετὰ prep To show mercy towards our fathers, To remember his holy covenant,
- Luke 2:36 μετὰ prep There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
- Luke 2:46 μετὰ prep It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
- Luke 2:51 μετ’ prep And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
- Luke 5:27 μετὰ prep After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"
- Luke 5:29 μετ’ prep Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
- Luke 5:30 μετὰ prep Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
- Luke 5:34 μετ’ prep He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
- Luke 6:3 μετ’ prep Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;
- Luke 6:4 μετ’ prep how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"
- Luke 6:17 μετ’ prep He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
- Luke 7:36 μετ’ prep One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
- Luke 8:13 μετὰ prep Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
- Luke 9:28 μετὰ prep It happened about eight days after these sayings, that he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.
- Luke 9:39 μετὰ prep Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
- Luke 9:49 μεθ’ prep John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow with us."
- Luke 10:1 Μετὰ prep Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
- Luke 10:17 μετὰ prep The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"
- Luke 10:37 μετ’ prep He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 11:7 μετ’ prep and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?
- Luke 11:23 μετ’ μετ’ prep prep "He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather with me scatters.
- Luke 11:31 μετὰ prep The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.
- Luke 11:32 μετὰ prep The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 12:4 μετὰ prep "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
- Luke 12:5 μετὰ prep But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
- Luke 12:13 μετ’ prep One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
- Luke 12:46 μετὰ prep then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
- Luke 12:58 μετὰ prep For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
- Luke 13:1 μετὰ prep Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- Luke 14:9 μετὰ prep and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
- Luke 14:31 μετὰ prep Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
- Luke 15:13 μετ’ prep Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
- Luke 15:29 μετὰ prep But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
- Luke 15:30 μετὰ prep But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
- Luke 15:31 μετ’ prep "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
- Luke 17:8 μετὰ prep and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?
- Luke 17:15 μετὰ prep One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
- Luke 17:20 μετὰ prep Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;
- Luke 18:4 μετὰ prep He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
- Luke 21:27 μετὰ prep Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
- Luke 22:11 μετὰ prep Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
- Luke 22:15 μεθ’ prep He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,
- Luke 22:20 μετὰ prep Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
- Luke 22:21 μετ’ prep But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.
- Luke 22:28 μετ’ prep But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
- Luke 22:33 μετὰ prep He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"
- Luke 22:37 μετὰ prep For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.' For that which concerns me has an end."
- Luke 22:52 μετὰ prep Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
- Luke 22:53 μεθ’ prep When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
- Luke 22:58 μετὰ prep After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"
- Luke 22:59 μετ’ prep After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!"
- Luke 23:12 μετ’ prep Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
- Luke 23:43 μετ’ prep Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
- Luke 24:5 μετὰ prep Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
- Luke 24:29 μεθ’ prep They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.
- Luke 24:30 μετ’ prep It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
- Luke 24:52 μετὰ prep They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
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.
