greek #3358 - μέτρον, ου, τό metron (a measure)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

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

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 3358: μέτρον

1.an instrument for measuring;

a.a vessel for receiving and determining the quantity of things, whether dry or liquid: in proverbial discourse, μέτρεινμέτρῳ, of the measure of the benefits which one confers on others, Luke 6:38; μέτρονπεπιεσμένονκαίσεσαλευμένον, figuratively equivalent to most abundant requital, ibid.; πληροῦντόμέτροντῶνπατέρων, to add what is lacking in order to fill up their ancestors' prescribed number of crimes, Matthew 23:32 (see πληρόω, 2 a.); ἐκμέτρου (A. V. by measure; see ἐκ, V. 3) i. e. sparingly,John 3:34 (also ἐνμέτρῳ, Ezekiel 4:11).

b.a graduated staff for measuring, measuring-rod: Revelation 21:15; with ἀνθρώπου added (man's measure), such as men use, Revelation 21:17; hence, in proverbial discourse, the rule or standard of judgment: Matthew 7:2; Mark 4:24.

2.determined extent, portion measured off, measure or limit: with a genitive of the thing received, Romans 12:3; 2 Corinthians 10:13; (Ephesians 4:7); ἐνμέτρῳ, in proportion to the measure (cf. Winers Grammar, § 48, a. 3 b. and see ἐνέργεια; others, in due measure), Ephesians 4:16; the required measure, the due, fit, measure: τῆςἡλικίας, the proper i. e. ripe, full age (see ἡλικία, 1 c.) (of a man), Ephesians 4:13 (ἡβης, Homer, Iliad 11, 225; Odyssey 11, 317; Solon 5, 52 (Poet. Min. Gr. (edited by Gaisford) 3:135)).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 3358. μέτρον (metron) — 14 Occurrences

Matthew 7:2 - N-DNS
GRK:ἐν ᾧ μέτρῳ μετρεῖτε μετρηθήσεται
NAS: you will be judged; and by your standard of measure,
KJV: what measure ye mete,
INT: with what measure you measure it will be measured again

Matthew 23:32 - N-ANS
GRK:πληρώσατε τὸ μέτρον τῶν πατέρων
NAS: up, then, the measure [of the guilt] of your fathers.
KJV: up then the measure of your fathers.
INT: fill you up the measure of the fathers

Mark 4:24 - N-DNS
GRK:ἐν ᾧ μέτρῳ μετρεῖτε μετρηθήσεται
NAS: you listen to. By your standard of measure
KJV: what measure ye mete,
INT: with what measure you measure it will be measured

Luke 6:38 - N-ANS
GRK:δοθήσεται ὑμῖν μέτρον καλὸν πεπιεσμένον
NAS: a good measure-- pressed down,
KJV: good measure, pressed down,
INT: it will be given to you measure good pressed down

Luke 6:38 - N-DNS
GRK:ᾧ γὰρ μέτρῳ μετρεῖτε ἀντιμετρηθήσεται
NAS: [and] running over. For by your standard of measure
KJV: with the same measure that
INT: with that indeed measure you measure it will be measured again

John 3:34 - N-GNS
GRK:γὰρ ἐκ μέτρου δίδωσιν τὸ
NAS: the Spirit without measure.
KJV: the Spirit by measure [unto him].
INT: indeed by measure he gives the

Romans 12:3 - N-ANS
GRK:θεὸς ἐμέρισεν μέτρον πίστεως
NAS: to each a measure of faith.
KJV: to every man the measure of faith.
INT: God divided a measure of faith

2 Corinthians 10:13 - N-ANS
GRK:κατὰ τὸ μέτρον τοῦ κανόνος
NAS: but within the measure of the sphere
KJV: according to the measure of the rule
INT: according to the measure of the area

2 Corinthians 10:13 - N-GNS
GRK:ὁ θεὸς μέτρου ἐφικέσθαι ἄχρι
NAS: apportioned to us as a measure, to reach
KJV: to us, a measure to reach
INT: the God of measure to reach as far as

Ephesians 4:7 - N-ANS
GRK:κατὰ τὸ μέτρον τῆς δωρεᾶς
NAS: according to the measure of Christ's
KJV: according to the measure of the gift
INT: according to the measure of the gift

Ephesians 4:13 - N-ANS
GRK:τέλειον εἰς μέτρον ἡλικίας τοῦ
NAS: man, to the measure of the stature
KJV: unto the measure of the stature
INT: full-grown at [the] measure of [the] stature of the

Ephesians 4:16 - N-DNS
GRK:ἐνέργειαν ἐν μέτρῳ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου
NAS: according to the proper working
KJV: in the measure of every
INT: [the] working in [its] measure individual of each

Revelation 21:15 - N-ANS
GRK:ἐμοῦ εἶχεν μέτρον κάλαμον χρυσοῦν
INT: me had a measuring reed golden

Revelation 21:17 - N-ANS
GRK:τεσσάρων πηχῶν μέτρον ἀνθρώπου ὅ
NAS: [according to] human measurements, which
KJV: cubits, [according to] the measure of a man,
INT: four cubits measure of a man that