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