μετά
with
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word governing a noun in a particular case.
Every verse where G3326 appears in the Book of Revelation — 43 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 1:7 μετὰ prep Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
- Revelation 1:12 μετ’ prep I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
- Revelation 1:19 μετὰ prep Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;
- Revelation 2:16 μετ’ prep Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
- Revelation 2:22 μετ’ prep Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.
- Revelation 3:4 μετ’ prep Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
- Revelation 3:20 μετ’ μετ’ prep prep Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
- Revelation 3:21 μετ’ μετὰ prep prep He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
- Revelation 4:1 Μετὰ μετ’ μετὰ prep prep prep After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."
- Revelation 6:8 μετ’ prep And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
- Revelation 7:1 μετὰ prep After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
- Revelation 7:9 Μετὰ prep After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
- Revelation 9:12 μετὰ prep The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
- Revelation 10:8 μετ’ prep The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
- Revelation 11:7 μετ’ prep When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
- Revelation 11:11 μετὰ prep After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
- Revelation 12:7 μετὰ prep There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
- Revelation 12:9 μετ’ prep The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
- Revelation 12:17 μετὰ prep The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
- Revelation 13:4 μετ’ prep They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
- Revelation 13:7 μετὰ prep It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
- Revelation 14:1 μετ’ prep I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
- Revelation 14:4 μετὰ prep These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
- Revelation 14:13 μετ’ prep I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
- Revelation 15:5 μετὰ prep After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.
- Revelation 17:1 μετ’ prep One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
- Revelation 17:2 μεθ’ prep with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."
- Revelation 17:12 μετὰ prep The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
- Revelation 17:14 μετὰ μετ’ prep prep These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
- Revelation 18:1 Μετὰ prep After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.
- Revelation 18:3 μετ’ prep For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
- Revelation 18:9 μετ’ prep The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
- Revelation 19:1 Μετὰ prep After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Revelation 19:19 μετὰ μετὰ prep prep I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
- Revelation 19:20 μετ’ prep The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
- Revelation 20:3 μετὰ prep and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
- Revelation 20:4 μετὰ prep I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for the thousand years.
- Revelation 20:6 μετ’ prep Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
- Revelation 21:3 μετὰ μετ’ μετ’ prep prep prep I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
- Revelation 21:9 μετ’ prep One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."
- Revelation 21:15 μετ’ prep He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
- Revelation 22:12 μετ’ prep "Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
- Revelation 22:21 μετὰ prep The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.
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.
