Word

μιμητής

mimētḗs · G3402 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

imitator, one who does what others do

(Derivative of μιμέομαι ‘to imitate,’) One who imitates someone else

Examples
1 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me.
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
Ephesians 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;

How it’s used In 3 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

6 occurrences in 5 groups

ἐγώI, we 3
ἐκκλησίαcongregation, church 1
θεόςGod 1
κληρονομέωto inherit 1
κύριοςLord 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπιθυμέωto long for 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

σύyou 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 1 entry

Imitator, one who does what others do41.45: This sense denotes a person who follows another's example. 1 Corinthians 4:16 urges, “I exhort you, therefore, be imitators of me.”

Word family 3 words

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

μιμέομαι miméomai · G3401 · to imitate, to do as others do · 4×μιμητήςmimētḗs · G3402συμμιμητής symmimētḗs · G4831 · to join as an imitator, to be an imitator together with others, joint imitator · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μιμητου, ὁ, an imitator: γίνομαι τίνος (genitive of person), 1 Cor 4:16; 1 Cor 11:1; Eph…

μιμητου, ὁ, an imitator: γίνομαι τίνος (genitive of person), 1 Cor 4:16; 1 Cor 11:1; Eph 5:1; 1 Thess 1:6; 1 Thess 2:14; Heb 6:12; with the genitive of the thing, 1 Pet 3:13 Rec. (where L T Tr WH ζηλωταί). (Plato, Isocrates, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Imitate Behavior6 occurrences

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