"the womb, Lk. 2:23; Rom. 4:19*"
Definition and meaning
the womb, Lk. 2:23; Rom. 4:19*
In the original Greek the word is written: μήτρα
Historical context
Luke wrote as a historian addressing a Greek audience. He carefully interviewed eyewitnesses and arranged events in order. The social and economic realities he describes — Roman taxation, Jewish religious hierarchy, the marginalization of women and the poor — are consistent with first-century Judea under Roman administration.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of metra (G3388) across the King James Bible.
(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
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Common questions
Strong's G3388 (metra) is a Greek word that means: the womb, Lk. 2:23; Rom. 4:19* It appears 2 times in the King James Bible.
The word metra (G3388) appears 2 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G3388 is metra, a Greek word defined as: the womb, Lk. 2:23; Rom. 4:19*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
metra is a Greek word found in the New Testament.