μετρέω
to measure
‘to measure’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 3 times (27%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (18%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (18%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3354 appears — 9 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Revelation 5 verses
- Revelation 11:1 μέτρησον aor act impv 2sg A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.
- Revelation 11:2 μετρήσῃς aor act subj 2sg Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
- Revelation 21:15 μετρήσῃ aor act subj 3sg He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
- Revelation 21:16 ἐμέτρησεν aor act ind 3sg The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
- Revelation 21:17 ἐμέτρησεν aor act ind 3sg Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
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.
μετρεω — transliterated metréō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to measure.” More than half of its appearances fall in Revelation. It appears 9 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 7:2. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 9-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3354 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 5 verses 56%
- Matthew 1 verse 11%
- Mark 1 verse 11%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Johannine 5 verses · 56%
- Revelation 5 verses · 56%
- Gospels 3 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 11%
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: Measure 3×, He measured 2×, Ye mete 2×
- American Standard Version: Measure 4×, He measured 2×, Ye mete 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Measure 4×, You 3×, He measured 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: You measure 3×, He measured 2×, Measure 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3354 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3354 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G3354 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3354 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 2 senses 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.
- to measure, to measure out or off
- to measure out, mete out to, i.e. to give by measure
Word origin
Derived from μετρον (métron) (G3358) — measure.
From G3358 ; to measure (that is ascertain in size by a fixed standard); by implication to admeasure (that is allot by rule); figuratively to estimate : - measure mete.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G3354 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μετρεῖτε metreîte | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 7:2 | 3 |
| μετρηθήσεται metrēthḗsetai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 7:2 | 2 |
| ἐμέτρησεν emétrēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Revelation 21:16 | 2 |
| μέτρησον métrēson | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Revelation 11:1 | 1 |
| μετρήσῃ metrḗsē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Revelation 21:15 | 1 |
| μετρήσῃς metrḗsēs | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular | Revelation 11:2 | 1 |
| μετροῦντες metroûntes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 10:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3354, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μετρεω appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 4 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 16:18 μετρέω
- Numbers 35:5 μετρέω
- Ruth 3:15 μετρέω
- Isaiah 40:12 μετρέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3354) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 16:18 μετρέω When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
- Numbers 35:5 μετρέω You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
- Ruth 3:15 μετρέω He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
- Isaiah 40:12 μετρέω Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3354) 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.
