STRONGS NUMBER G3389


Word Summary
mētralōas: a matricide
Original Word: μητραλῴας
Transliteration: mētralōas
Phonetic Spelling: (may-tral-o'-as)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a matricide
Meaning: a matricide
Strong's Concordance
murderer of mothers.

From meter and the base of halon; a mother-thresher, i.e. Matricide -- murderer of mothers.

see GREEK meter

see GREEK halon

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3389: μητραλωας

μητραλωας (also μητραλοίας), L T Tr WH (see WH's Appendix, p. 152) μητρολῴας, μητρολου, (μήτηρ, and ἀλοιάω to thresh, smite), a matricide: 1 Timothy 1:9. (Aeschylus, Plato, Lucian, others.)