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Strong's #3358: metron (pronounced met'-ron)

an apparently primary word; a measure ("metre"), literally or figuratively; by implication, a limited portion (degree):-- measure.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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metron

1) measure, an instrument for measuring

1a) a vessel for receiving and determining the quantity of things, whether dry or liquid

1b) a graduated staff for measuring, a measuring rod

1c) proverbially, the rule or standard of judgment

2) determined extent, portion measured off, measure or limit

2a) the required measure, the due, fit, measure

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: an apparently primary word

Citing in TDNT: 4:632, 590




Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

Matthew 7:2: "and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."
Matthew 23:32: "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers."
Mark 4:24: "ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and"
Luke 6:38: "it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and"
Luke 6:38: "For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."
John 3:34: "the Spirit by measure"
Romans 12:3: "soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
2 Corinthians 10:13: "but according to the measure of the rule which God"
2 Corinthians 10:13: "God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you."
Ephesians 4:7: "grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ."
Ephesians 4:13: "a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:"
Ephesians 4:16: "according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh"
Revelation 21:17: "thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is,"









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