Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
womb
Usage: μήτρα, -ας, ἡ (μήτμρ), [in LXX chiefly for רֶחֶם ;] the womb: Luk.2:23 (LXX), Rom.4:19.† (AS)
Metra means “womb” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3388 — yerusha (“Jerusha”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3388 μήτρα (metra) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. metra (may'-trah) n. 1. the matrix [from G3384] It has 32 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include womb. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
metra (may'-trah) n. 1. the matrix [from G3384] KJV: womb Root(s): G3384
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womb
Usage: μήτρα, -ας, ἡ (μήτμρ), [in LXX chiefly for רֶחֶם ;] the womb: Luk.2:23 (LXX), Rom.4:19.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render metra, 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 G3388 (μήτρα) appears 33 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.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
26 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and he opened her womb.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:
And it was created with the faithful in the womb.
For they entreated him evil, Who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother’s womb, That he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; And that he might build up also, and plant.
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3388.
Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and he opened her womb.
And my God helped thee, And he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, And the blessing of the earth possessing all things, Because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,
Sanctify to me every firstborn, first produced, opening every womb among the children of Israel both of man and beast: it is mine.
that thou shalt set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, every one that opens the womb out of the herds or among thy cattle, as many as thou shalt have: thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord.
Every offspring opening the womb of the ass thou shalt change for a sheep; and if thou wilt not change it, thou shalt redeem it: every firstborn of man of thy sons shalt thou redeem.
And when Pharaoh hardened his heart so as not to send us away, he slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast; therefore do I sacrifice every offspring that opens the womb, the males to the Lord, and every firstborn of my sons I will redeem.
The males are mine, everything that opens the womb; every firstborn of oxen, and every firstborn of sheep.
Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be mine.
For these are given to me for a present out of the midst of the children of Israel: I have taken them to myself instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel that open every womb.
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.
And everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whatsoever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be thine: only the firstborn of men shall be surely redeemed, and thou shalt redeem the firstborn of unclean cattle.
and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
And to Hannah he gave a prime portion, because she had no child, only Elkanah loved Hannah more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.
For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.
And the woman whose the living child was, answered and spoke to the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it.
Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, Or as infants who never saw light.
I was cast on thee from the womb: Thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: They go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee; I appointed thee a prophet to the nations.
because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.
Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?
And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.
Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.
(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:
And it was created with the faithful in the womb.
For they entreated him evil, Who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother’s womb, That he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; And that he might build up also, and plant.
Now therefore bless ye the God of all, Which only doeth wondrous things everywhere, Which exalteth our days from the womb, And dealeth with us according to his mercy.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3388, grouped by book.
Metra (Strong's G3388) is a Greek word most simply glossed "womb". metra (may'-trah) n. 1. the matrix [from G3384]
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's G3388 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3388 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 womb. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 26 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3388, with linked reader references where each row is available.