metron · measure

What it means

metron (μέτρον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “measure”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is used to gauge, or how much is given.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• measure ×13
• measuring ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• John×1
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×2
• Ephesians×3
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 7:2

  For with the judgment you judge you will be judged, and with the measure you measure with it will be measured to you.

• Matthew 23:32

  And you, fill up the measure of your fathers.

• Mark 4:24

  And he was saying to them, “Watch what you hear. With the measure you measure it will be measured to you, and more will be added to you.

• Luke 6:38

  Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down, shaken, running over, they will put into your lap; for with the measure with which you measure, it will be measured back to you.”

• John 3:34

  For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

• Romans 12:3

  For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to think soberly, as God has assigned to each a measure of faith.

• 2 Corinthians 10:13

  But we will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the rule that God assigned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

• Ephesians 4:7

  But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of the Messiah.

• Ephesians 4:13

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Messiah,

• Ephesians 4:16

  from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every joint of supply, according to the working in the measure of each part, makes the growth of the body for its own building up in love.

• Revelation 21:15

  And the one who was speaking with me had a measuring reed of gold to measure the city and its gates and its wall.

• Revelation 21:17

  And he measured its wall, a hundred forty four cubits, by human measure, which is also an angel’s.

And 2 more times.