μητρόπολις
metropolis
G3390
Strong's Greek
mētrópolis
Transliteration
/may-trop'-ol-is/
Pronunciation
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Thayer Definition
1. a metropolis, a chief city
Where this word appears
No tagged occurrences of G3390 in the indexed corpus.
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Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
chiefest city
Modern gloss
metropolis
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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