μετά
meta
with/after
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word μετά (meta) is a versatile preposition that conveys the idea of being "with" or "after" something. Its primary function is to indicate a relationship between two entities, often emphasizing a connection or sequence. With 477 occurrences in the Bible, μετά is one of the most frequently used prepositions in the Greek New Testament. The range of usage for μετά is broad, encompassing various contexts such as spatial relationships (e.g., being "with" someone), temporal relationships (e.g., "after" an event), and causal relationships (e.g., "because of" something). Its flexibility allows it to be used in a wide range of sentence structures, from simple to complex. The significance of μετά lies in its ability to convey nuanced meanings that are essential to understanding the biblical narrative. By indicating relationships between entities, μετά helps to establish connections between events, people, and ideas, which is critical for grasping the complexities of the biblical story.
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Occurrences in Scripture
477 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Matthew 5:41Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
Matthew 1:12After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.
Matthew 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
Matthew 2:3When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 2:11They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew 4:21Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
Matthew 5:25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
Matthew 21:2saying to them, “Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me.
Matthew 8:11I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Matthew 9:11When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Matthew 9:15Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Matthew 12:3But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;
Matthew 12:4how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
Matthew 12:30“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.
Matthew 12:30“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.
Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:42The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 12:45Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
Matthew 13:20What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
Matthew 14:7Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.
Matthew 15:30Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,
Matthew 16:27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
Matthew 17:1After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.
Matthew 17:3Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
Matthew 17:17Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
Matthew 18:16But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Matthew 18:23Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
Matthew 19:10His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
Matthew 20:2When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
Matthew 22:16They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.
Matthew 24:29But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Matthew 24:30and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
Matthew 24:31He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Matthew 24:49and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
Matthew 24:51and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
Matthew 25:3Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
Matthew 25:4but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Matthew 25:10While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
Matthew 25:19“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
Matthew 25:19“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
Matthew 25:31“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
Matthew 26:2“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
Matthew 26:11For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.
Matthew 26:18He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”
Matthew 26:20Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
Matthew 26:23He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.
Matthew 26:29But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Matthew 26:32But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”