G3390 μητρόπολις (mētrópolis)

Greek

Noun

Quick Definition

capital

Strong's Definition

a mother city, i.e. "metropolis"

Derivation: from G3384 (μήτηρ) and G4172 (πόλις);

KJV Usage: chiefest city

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μητρό-πολις, -ews, 9, (μήτηρ and πόλις), a metropolis, chief city; in the spurious subscription 1 Tim. vi. (22) fin.; [in this sense fr. Xen. down ].

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

not given

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

μητρό-πολις, -εως, ἡ,

[in LXX for אָב etc.;]

a metropolis, chief city: ITi, subscr. (Rec.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

μητρόπολις [page 411] This subst., which in the NT is confined to the late subscription of 1 Tim, may be illustrated from P Fay 28 .2 (A.D. 150 1) (= Selections , p. 81), where a notice of birth is addressed to certain men as γραμματεῦσι μητροπόλεως . See also the letter of the prodigal BGU III. 846 .6 (ii/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 93), γεινώσκειν σαι θέλω ὅτι̣ οὐχ [ἥλπ ]ιζον ὅτι ἀναβένις εἰς μητρόπολιν , I wish you to know that I had no hope that you would come up to the metropolis, and the Index to OGIS s.v. Apart from ecclesiastical use, the expression seems to have disappeared in early Byzantine times : see Chrest. I. i. p. 78. For μητροπολίτης cf. the land-survey P Ryl II. 216 .33 al. (ii/iii A.D.), where one category is land belonging to citizens and assessed at 3 dr. τρίδραχμος μητροπολιτῶν .

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

μητρόπολις (mētropolis) — capital. μητρό-πολις, Doric dialect ματρό-, poetry μητρόπτολις, [Refs 4th c.AD+]: εως, ἡ:— mother-state, as related to her colonies, of Athens in relation to the Ionians, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Doris in relation to the Peloponn. Dorians, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Meroe in relation to the Ethiopians, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Thera, μεγαλᾶν πολίων μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Attic Salamis, as the μ. of the Cyprian, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of Corinth, as the μ. of Corcyra, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Rome, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

2. metaphorically, ἐστὶ μ. τοῦ ψυχροῦ [ὁ ἐγκέφαλος] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γεωμετρία ἀρχὴ καὶ μ. τῶν ἄλλων (i.e. μαθημάτων) [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. one's mother-city, mothercountry, home, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. ἁ σὰ ματρόπολις thy mother's city, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

III. capital city, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ μ. τῆς Ἀσίας, of Ephesus, [Refs]

III. b in Egypt, chief town of a νομός, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

μητρό-πολις, -εως, ἡ [in LXX for אָב etc. ;] a metropolis, chief city: ITi, subscr. (Rec.).† (AS)