ἀντιμετρέω
antimetréō · G488 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to repay, to return, to pay back
To give a measured portion to someone in repayment
ExamplesLuke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετρέωto measure 1
To or for whomIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀποδίδωμι apodídōmi · G591 · to return, to give back, to pay
- Greek verb meaning 'to give back' or 'to render what is due'; semantically overlaps with ἀντιμετρέω in contexts of reciprocal payment or return, though lacks the specific measuring imagery and the emphatic reciprocal prefix
In the other Testament 1 word
- מָדַד mâdad · H4058 · to measure, to measure off, to measure out
- Hebrew verb for measuring/meting; the compound ἀντιμετρέω ('to measure back/in return') corresponds to Hebrew contexts where מָדַד is used with reciprocal force, as in measuring back what was measured out
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To repay, to return, to pay back57.93
- In Luke 6:38, Jesus teaches that “by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return (antimetrēthḗsetai),” describing a proportional return rendered back to the giver.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀντιμέτρω: future passive ἀντιμετρηθήσομαι; to measure back, measure in return: Mt 7:2…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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