For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
You are here
μετά
Vocabulary form:
metav
Definition:
gen: with; acc: after
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
469
GK:
3552
Cognates:
Metaphysics is the discussion in Aristotle that comes after his discussion of physics (ta; meta; ta; fusikav).
Mnemonics:
I met with Gen after accordion lessons.
Mnemonic Singing:
Crown Him with many crowns,
the Lamb upon His throne.
Alternate:
Mold me and make me after thy will,
while I am waiting, yielded and still.
Notes:
When metav is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, the alpha drops out (met=). If the following word begins with a vowel and rough breathing, it becomes meq=. The object of metav with the genitive will usually be a person or a personal concept. Another preposition (suvn) is used when the object is impersonal.
Biblical Concordance
| Luke 12:5 | I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after (meta | μετά | prep-acc) he kills, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear this one! |
| Luke 12:13 | Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) me.” |
| Luke 12:46 | then the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know about, and he will cut him in pieces and will assign him his place with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) the unfaithful. |
| Luke 12:58 | So when you go with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) your opponent before the magistrate, make an effort to receive a settlement from him on the way; otherwise he will drag you off to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison. |
| Luke 13:1 | At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) their sacrifices. |
| Luke 14:9 | and the one who invited both you and him will say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) shame you will proceed to take the least important place. |
| Luke 14:31 | Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand troops to oppose the one coming against him with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) twenty thousand? |
| Luke 15:13 | Not many days later (met | μετ᾿ | prep-acc), the younger son gathered up everything and left for a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by living recklessly. |
| Luke 15:29 | but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disregarded a command of yours, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) my friends. |
| Luke 15:30 | But when this son of yours came, who has consumed your estate with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ |
| Luke 15:31 | Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) me, and everything I have is yours. |
| Luke 17:8 | Will he not, rather, say to him, ‘Prepare what I am to eat, then change clothes and wait on me while I eat and drink, and after (meta | μετά | prep-acc) this you may eat and drink’? |
| Luke 17:15 | Then one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, returned, praising God in (meta | μετά | prep-gen) a loud voice, |
| Luke 17:20 | Having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, saying, “The kingdom of God will not come with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) observation. |
| Luke 18:4 | He didn’t want to for a time. But later (meta | μετά | prep-acc) on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, |
| Luke 21:27 | And then they will see the Son of Man coming on a cloud with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) power and great glory. |
| Luke 22:11 | and say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) my disciples?”’ |
| Luke 22:15 | He said to them, “With great desire I desired to eat this Passover with (meth | μεθ᾿ | prep-gen) you before I suffer! |
| Luke 22:20 | And he did the same with the cup after (meta | μετά | prep-acc) they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which on your behalf is being poured out. |
| Luke 22:21 | “But see, the hand of the one who will betray me is with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) me on the table. |
| Luke 22:28 | You are the ones who have stayed with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) me in my trials. |
| Luke 22:33 | Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) you both to prison and to death.” |
| Luke 22:37 | For I tell you that there must be fulfilled in me what stands written: ‘And he was numbered with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) the lawless.’ And indeed, that which concerns me has its fulfillment.” |
| Luke 22:52 | Then Jesus said to those who had come out against him — the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, “Why did you come out as against a robber, with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) swords and clubs? |
| Luke 22:53 | Day after day, when I was in the temple, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the hour for the power of darkness. |
| Luke 22:58 | After (meta | μετά | prep-acc) a little while someone else noticed him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!” |
| Luke 22:59 | Then after about an hour had passed a certain other person kept insisting, saying, “Surely this person also was with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) him, for he too is a Galilean.” |
| Luke 23:12 | And Herod and Pilate became friends with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) each other that very day, for before this they had been hostile toward one other. |
| Luke 23:43 | And Jesus said to him, “In solemn truth I tell you: today you will be with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) me in paradise.” |
| Luke 24:5 | The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among (meta | μετά | prep-gen) the dead? |
| Luke 24:29 | but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with (meth | μεθ᾿ | prep-gen) us, for it is toward evening and the day is already far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. |
| Luke 24:30 | When he was reclining at the table with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. |
| Luke 24:52 | And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) great joy, |
| John 2:12 | After (meta | μετά | prep-acc) this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, but they stayed there only a few days. |
| John 3:2 | This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless God is with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) him.” |
| John 3:22 | After (meta | μετά | prep-acc) this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he was there with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) them for a time and was baptizing. |
| John 3:25 | Now an argument about ritual cleansing arose between (meta | μετά | prep-gen) some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew. |
| John 3:26 | So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) you on the far side of the Jordan, the one to whom you bore witness — well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him!” |
| John 4:27 | Just then his disciples came back. They were astonished that he was talking with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) a woman; however, no one said to her, “What do you want?” or to him, “Why are you talking with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) her?” |
| John 4:43 | Two days later (meta | μετά | prep-acc) Jesus left from there and went to Galilee |
| John 5:1 | After (meta | μετά | prep-acc) this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. |
| John 5:14 | Later (meta | μετά | prep-acc) on Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been healed! Do not sin any longer, so that nothing worse happens to you.” |
| John 6:1 | After (meta | μετά | prep-acc) this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias). |
| John 6:3 | Jesus went up on the mountainside, and he sat down there with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) his disciples. |
| John 6:43 | Jesus answered them, saying, “Do not keep grumbling among (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) yourselves. |
| John 6:66 | From this time, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) him. |
| John 7:1 | After (meta | μετά | prep-acc) this Jesus traveled about in Galilee; he chose not to remain in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. |
| John 7:33 | Then Jesus said, “I will be with (meth | μεθ᾿ | prep-gen) you for a little while longer, and then I am going back to the one who sent me. |
| John 8:29 | And the one who sent me is with (met | μετ᾿ | prep-gen) me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.” |
| John 9:37 | Jesus said to him, “You have seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with (meta | μετά | prep-gen) you.” |
Mnemonics
What's a meta with you?!
What's a meta with you?!
meta
gen: with; acc: after
Good one: What's a meta with you?!