μέτρον
measure
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G3358 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of 2 Corinthians. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
2 Corinthians
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.
“measure” is the headline sense of the Greek noun μετρον (métron). First canonically at Matthew 7:2, it enters the text early. With 12 verses in 8 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Ephesians, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 12-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3358 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ephesians 3 verses 25%
- Matthew 2 verses 17%
- Revelation 2 verses 17%
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 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 42%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 42%
- Johannine 3 verses · 25%
- Revelation 2 verses · 17%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 8%
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 12×
- American Standard Version: Measure 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Measure 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Measure 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3358 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3358 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G3358 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3358 across 15 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.
- measure, an instrument for measuring
- determined extent, portion measured off, measure or limit
Word origin
Origin: an apparently primary word
An apparently primary word; a measure (metre) literally or figuratively; by implication a limited portion ( degree ): - measure.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3358 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μέτρον métron | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 23:32 | 8 |
| μέτρῳ métrō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 7:2 | 4 |
| μέτρου métrou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | John 3:34 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3358, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μετρον appears 71 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 66 verses in 17 books.
- 71
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 66
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 18:6 μέτρον
- Exodus 16:36 μέτρον
- Leviticus 19:35 μέτρον
- Deuteronomy 2:6 μέτρον
- 1 Kings 6:25 μέτρον
- 2 Kings 7:1 μέτρον
- 1 Chronicles 23:29 μέτρον
- 2 Chronicles 2:9 μέτρον
- Ezra 13:19 μέτρον
- Job 11:9 μέτρον
- Psalms 79:6 μέτρον
- Proverbs 20:10 μέτρον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3358) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 66. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 18:6 μέτρον Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
- Exodus 16:36 μέτρον Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
- Exodus 26:2 μέτρον The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
- Exodus 26:8 μέτρον The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
- Leviticus 19:35 μέτρον "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
- Deuteronomy 2:6 μέτρον You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.
- Deuteronomy 25:14 μέτρον You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:15 μέτρον A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- 1 Kings 6:25 μέτρον The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
- 1 Kings 7:23 μέτρον He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- 1 Kings 7:48 μέτρον Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;
- 2 Kings 7:1 μέτρον Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
- 2 Kings 7:16 μέτρον The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 7:18 μέτρον It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;
- 2 Kings 21:13 μέτρον I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
- 1 Chronicles 23:29 μέτρον for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size;
- 2 Chronicles 2:9 μέτρον even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
- Ezra 13:19 μέτρον
- Ezra 13:20 μέτρον
- Ezra 13:21 μέτρον
- Ezra 13:24 μέτρον
- Ezra 13:27 μέτρον
- Ezra 13:30 μέτρον
- Job 11:9 μέτρον The measure of it is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
- Job 28:25 μέτρον He establishes the force of the wind; Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
- Job 38:5 μέτρον Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
- Psalms 79:6 μέτρον Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; On the kingdoms that don't call on your name;
- Proverbs 20:10 μέτρον Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
- Isaiah 5:10 μέτρον For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
- Isaiah 44:13 μέτρον The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
- Lamentations 2:8 μέτρον Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
- Ezekiel 4:11 μέτρον You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
- Ezekiel 4:16 μέτρον Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
- Ezekiel 40:3 μέτρον He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
- Ezekiel 40:5 μέτρον Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:10 μέτρον The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
- Ezekiel 40:21 μέτρον The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:24 μέτρον He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.
- Ezekiel 40:28 μέτρον Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
- Ezekiel 40:29 μέτρον and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:32 μέτρον He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;
- Ezekiel 40:33 μέτρον and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:35 μέτρον He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;
- Ezekiel 42:11 μέτρον The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
- Ezekiel 42:16 μέτρον He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
- Ezekiel 42:17 μέτρον He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
- Ezekiel 42:18 μέτρον He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 42:19 μέτρον He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
- Ezekiel 43:13 μέτρον These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
- Ezekiel 45:10 μέτρον You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3358) 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.
