Metecho means “be partaker” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3348 — yaqeh (“Jakeh”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3348 μετέχω (metecho) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. metecho (met-ekh'-o) v. 1. to share or participate 2. (by implication) belong to, eat (or drink) It has 19 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include partakers, partaker, drink, and pertaineth. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
metecho (met-ekh'-o) v. 1. to share or participate 2. (by implication) belong to, eat (or drink) [from G3326 and G2192] KJV: be partaker, pertain, take part, use Root(s): G3326, G2192
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3348. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to share
Usage: μετ-έχω [in LXX: Pro.5:17 (עֵת), Pro.1:18, 1Es.5:40 Est.8:70, Sir.51:28, al. ;] to partake of, share in: ἐπ᾽ ἐλπίδι τοῦ μετέχειν, 1Co.9:10; with genitive of thing(s), 1Co.9:12 10:21 10:30, Heb.2:14; in sacramental sense, ἑκ τ. ἐνὸς ἄρτου μ., 1Co.10:17 (cf. MM, xvi); metaphorically, γάλακτος, Heb.5:13; of belonging to a tribe, Heb.7:13.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render metecho, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3348 (μετέχω) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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8 indexed usages in New Testament.
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; And the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
Let them be only thine own, And let no stranger partake with thee.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
for unto them said Nehemiah and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest clothed with doctrine and truth.
And they delivered the king’s commandments unto the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of God.
that the priests had no courage to serve anymore at the altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth;
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3348.
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; And the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
Let them be only thine own, And let no stranger partake with thee.
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
for unto them said Nehemiah and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest clothed with doctrine and truth.
And they delivered the king’s commandments unto the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of God.
that the priests had no courage to serve anymore at the altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth;
and he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulcher with his fathers.
But Judas Maccabeus with nine others, or thereabout, withdrew himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts, with his company, who fed on herbs continually, lest they should be partakers of the pollution.
To the end that they, desiring food, Might for the ugly sight of the beasts sent among them Loath even that, which they must needs desire; But these, suffering penury for a short space, Might be made partakers of a strange taste.
But these very grievously afflicted them, Whom they had received with feastings, And were already made partakers of the same laws with them.
Get learning with a great sum of money, And get much gold by her.
ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the
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Metecho (Strong's G3348) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be partaker". metecho (met-ekh'-o) v. 1. to share or participate 2. (by implication) belong to, eat (or drink)
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G3348 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3348 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as partakers, partaker, drink, and pertaineth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3348, with linked reader references where each row is available.