Metretes means “firkin” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3355 — yoqtan (“Joktan”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3355 μετρητής (metretes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. metretes (met-ray-tace') n. 1. a measurer 2. (specially), a certain standard measure of capacity for liquids It has 7 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include firkins. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
metretes (met-ray-tace') n. 1. a measurer 2. (specially), a certain standard measure of capacity for liquids [from G3354] KJV: firkin Root(s): G3354
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3355. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
measure
Usage: μετρητής, -οῦ, ὁ (μετρέω), [in LXX: 3Ki.18:32 (סְאָה), 2Ch.4:5, (בַּת), etc. ;] __1. a measurer (Plat.). __2. = ἀμφορεύς, an Attic measure, = 11⁄2 Roman amphoræ or about 9 Eng. gallons: Jhn.2:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render metretes, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. 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 G3355 (μετρητής) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he built up the stones in the name of the Lord, and repaired the altar that had been broken down; and he made a trench that would hold two measures of seed round about the altar.
And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished it.
When ye cast into the corn bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred cors, and a hundred pieces of wine, and other things in abundance.
And the king told Ashpenaz his chief eunuch, to bring in some of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3355.
And he built up the stones in the name of the Lord, and repaired the altar that had been broken down; and he made a trench that would hold two measures of seed round about the altar.
And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished it.
When ye cast into the corn bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred cors, and a hundred pieces of wine, and other things in abundance.
And the king told Ashpenaz his chief eunuch, to bring in some of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3355, grouped by book.
Metretes (Strong's G3355) is a Greek word most simply glossed "firkin". metretes (met-ray-tace') n. 1. a measurer 2. (specially), a certain standard measure of capacity for liquids
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G3355 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3355 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as firkins. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3355, with linked reader references where each row is available.