Forms of the word

Dictionary
μήτρα, ας, ἡ
Greek transliteration
mētra
Simplified transliteration
metra

Numbers

Strong's number
3388
GK Number
3616

Statistics

Frequency in New Testament
2
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-1a
Gloss
womb
Definition
the womb, Lk. 2:23; Rom. 4:19*

Greek-English Concordance for μήτρα

Luke 2:23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord: “Every male who first opens the womb (mētran | μήτραν | acc sg fem) will be called holy to the Lord”)
Romans 4:19 Not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb (mētras | μήτρας | gen sg fem).

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