Strong's Lexicon
G3046 — λίτρα
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3046 |
|---|---|
| Word: | λίτρα |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | of Latin origin (libra) |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 2 |
| Transliteration: | litra |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | lee'-trah |
| Meaning: | 1. a pound in weight |
| KJV Renderings: | pound |
Use Strong's responsibly
Strong's is an index and starting point, not the final meaning of a word. Do not build doctrine from a gloss, root, or number. Test meaning by sentence, grammar, authorial usage, context, and the passage argument.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λίτρα, λίτρας, ἡ, a pound, a weight of twelve ounces: Joh 12:3; Joh 19:39. (Polybius 22, 26, 19; Diodorus 14,116, 7; Plutarch, Tib. et G. Grac. 2, 3; Josephus, Antiquities 14, 7, 1; others.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
λίτρα (pound)
John 12:3
- KJV: Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard very costly and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment
- GK: η ούν Μαρία λαβούσα λίτραν μύρου νάρδου πιστικής πολυτίμου ήλειψε τους πόδας του Ιησού και εξέμαξε ταις θριξίν αυτής τους πόδας αυτού η δε οικία επληρώθη εκ της οσμής του μύρου
John 19:39
- KJV: And there came also Nicodemus which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about an hundred pound
- GK: ήλθε δε και Νικόδημος ο ελθών προς τον Ιησούν νυκτός το πρώτον φέρων μίγμα σμύρνης και αλόης ως λίτρας εκατόν
Semantic & Concept Relationships
Explore source-defined lexical senses and semantic domains related to this Strong's entry. These links support vocabulary discovery; they do not determine meaning in any passage.
The Englishman's Concordance section on this page remains the occurrence-navigation authority.
Semantic data in this module is under CC BY-SA 4.0, separate from existing page/site terms. Methodology; methodology JSON; sources and licences; attribution JSON.