μετάθεσις
metáthesis · G3331 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to move from one place to another, to change one’s location, to depart, departure
To effect a change of location in space, with the implication that the two locations are significantly different
ExamplesHebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for before he was taken up, he was attested to have been pleasing to God.
Hebrews 12:27 This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
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change, transformation
A change from one state to another
ExamplesHebrews 7:12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- νόμοςlaw, the Law 1
- σαλεύωto shake 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δηλόωto make known 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόbefore 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Change, transformation13.52
- This sense denotes a change from one state or arrangement to another. Hebrews 7:12 states, “when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.”
- To move from one place to another, to change one’s location, to depart, departure15.2
- This sense denotes being taken from one place of existence to another. Hebrews 11:5 states, “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death,” rendered here in connection with his “translation.”
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μεταθέσεως, ἡ (μετατίθημι); 1. a transfer: from one place to another (Diodorus 1, 23);…
1. a transfer: from one place to another (Diodorus 1, 23); τίνος (genitive of the object), the translation of a person to heaven, Heb 11:5.
2. change (of things instituted or established, as ἱερωσύνης, νόμου): Heb 7:12; τῶν σαλευομένων, Heb 12:27. (Thucydides 5, 29; Aristotle, Piut.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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