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σιτόμετρον

sitómetron · G4620 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. a due amount of food rations

    An appropriate portion or ration of food (a type of food allowance)

    Examples

    Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
τροφή trophḗ · G5160 · food
General Greek term for food or sustenance that can overlap with σιτόμετρον when referring to allocated provisions, though τροφή is broader and less technical about measured rations
In the other Testament 1 word
מָנָה mânâh · H4490 · part, portion
Hebrew term for an allotted portion or ration of food, directly equivalent to the Greek σιτόμετρον as a measured allocation of provisions
Semantic domains 1 entry
A due amount of food rations5.3
The noun names an allotted portion of food. Jesus asks, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?” (Luke 12:42).
Word family 7 words

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

σῖτος sîtos · G4621 · grain, wheat · 15×σιτευτός siteutós · G4618 · fat, fattened, grain-fattened · 3×ἀσιτία asitía · G776 · without food, without desiring food · 1×ἄσιτος ásitos · G777 · without food, without desiring food · 1×ἐπισιτισμός episitismós · G1979 · food · 1×σιτιστός sitistós · G4619 · fat, fattened, grain-fattened · 1×σιτόμετρονsitómetron · G4620
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σιτομετριου, τό (Attic writers said τόν σῖτον μέτρειν; out of which later writers formed…
σιτομετριου, τό (Attic writers said τόν σῖτον μέτρειν; out of which later writers formed the compound σιτομέτρειν, Gen 47:12,(14); Polybius 4, 63, 10; Diodorus 19, 50; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 14, 7; σιτομετρία, Diodorus 2, 41; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 383; Winer's Grammar, 25)), "a measured 'portion of' grain or 'food'": Lk 12:42. (Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Food1 occurrence

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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