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μητρόπολις

mētrópolis · G3390 · Greek · 0 occurrences

Meanings

  1. A mother city or metropolis, referring to a principal or chief city from which other cities or colonies were derived

    This lexeme does not occur in the New Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions. The term, while attested in classical Greek literature with the meaning "mother city" or "metropolis," has no tagged occurrences under this Strong's number in the Greek New Testament corpus.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μήτηρ mḗtēr · G3384 · mother, archetype, spiritual mother · 84×μήτρα mḗtra · G3388 · womb · 2×ἀμήτωρ amḗtōr · G282 · without mother · 1×μητραλῴας mētralṓias · G3389 · one who murders his mother · 1×μητρόπολιςmētrópolis · G3390
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μητροπολεως, ἡ (μήτηρ and πόλις), a metropolis, chief city; in the spurious subscription…
μητροπολεως, ἡ (μήτηρ and πόλις), a metropolis, chief city; in the spurious subscription (1 Tim 6:22) at the end; (in this sense from Xenophon down).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

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