Lexical 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.) |