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|astxt=[[μετά]] ([[before]] vowel μετ’; on the [[neglect]] of elision in [[certain]] cases, V. WH, App., 146 b), prep. c. gen., acc. (in [[poet]], [[also]] c. dat.), [in LXX for אַחַד ,עִם ,אֵת, etc.]. <br /><b class="num">I.</b>C. gen.,<br /><b class="num">1.</b>[[among]], [[amid]]: Mk 1:13, Lk 22:37 (LXX, ἐν) 24:5, Jo 18:5, al.; διωγμῶν, Mk 10:30. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>Of [[association]] and [[companionship]], [[with]] (in [[which]] [[sense]] it [[gradually]] superseded [[σύν]], [[than]] [[which]] it is [[much]] [[more]] freq. in NT; cf. Bl., §42, 3): c. gen. pers., Mt 8:11 20:20 Mk 1:29 3:7 Lk 5:30, Jo 3:22, Ga 2:1, al. mult.; [[εἶναι]] [[μετά]], Mt 5:25, Mk 3:14, al.; metaph., of [[divine]] [[help]] and [[guidance]], Jo 3:2, Ac 7:9, Phl 4:9, al.; opp. to [[εἶναι]] [[κατά]], Mt 12:30, Lk 11:23; in Hellenistic [[usage]] ([[but]] v. M, Pr., 106, 246f.), πολεμεῖν [[μετά]] = cl. π., c. dat., to [[wage]] [[war]] [[against]] (so LXX for נִלְחַם עִם, I Ki 17:33), Re 2:16, al.; c. gen. rei, χαρᾶς, Mt 13:20, Mk 4:16, al.; ὀργῆς, Mk 3:5, al. <br /><b class="num">II.</b>C. acc,<br /><b class="num">1.</b>of [[place]], [[behind]], [[after]]: He 9:3. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>Of [[time]], [[after]]: Mt 17:1, Mk 14:1, Lk 1:24, Ac 1:5, Ga 1:18, al.; μετὰ [[τοῦτο]], Jo 2:12, al.; [[ταῦτα]], Mk 16:[12], Lk 5:27, Jo 3:22, al; c. inf. artic. (BL, §71, 5; 72, 3), Mt 26:32, Mk 1:14, al.<br /><b class="num">III.</b>In [[composition]],<br /><b class="num">1.</b>of [[association]] or [[community]]: [[μεταδίδωμι]], [[μετέχω]], etc. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>Exchange or [[transference]]: [[μεταλλάσσω]], [[μετοικίζω]], etc. <br /><b class="num">3.</b>[[after]]: [[μεταμέλομαι]].

b. in order of [[time]]; after (the Sept. for אַחַר, אַחֲרֵי, מִקֵּץ, etc.): μεθ' ἡμέρας ἕξ, after six days (had passed) Matthew 17:1; Mark 9:2; add, Matthew 26:2; Mark 14:1; Luke 1:24; Luke 2:46, etc., cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on Matthew, p. 22f; μετ' οὐ πολλάς ἡμέρας, Luke 15:13; μετά ... τινας ἡμέρας, Acts 15:36; Acts 24:24; οὐ μετά πολλάς ταύτας ἡμέρας, not long after these days (A. V. not many days hence), Acts 1:5, cf. DeWette at the passage and Winers Grammar, 161 (152); (Buttmann, § 127, 4); μετά τρεῖς μῆνας, Acts 28:11; μετά ἔτη τρία, Galatians 1:18, etc.; μετά χρόνον πολύν, Matthew 25:19; μετά τοσοῦτον χρόνον, Hebrews 4:7. added to the names of events or achievements, and of festivals: μετά τήν μετοικεσίαν Βαβυλῶνος, Matthew 1:12; μετά τήν θλῖψιν, Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24; add, Matthew 27:53; Acts 10:37; Acts 20:29; 2 Peter 1:15; μετά τήν ἀνάγνωσιν, Acts 13:15; μετά μίαν καί δευτέραν νουθεσίαν, Titus 3:10; μετά τό πάσχα, Acts 12:4 cf. Acts 20:6; with the names of persons or things having the notion of time associated with them: μετά τοῦτον, αὐτόν, etc., Acts 5:37; Acts 7:5; Acts 13:25; Acts 19:4; μετά τόν νόμον, Hebrews 7:28; μετά τό ψωμίον, after the morsel was taken, John 13:27 (cf. Buttmann, § 147, 26); followed by the neuter demonstrative pronoun (cf. Winer's Grammar, 540 (503)): μετά τοῦτο. John 2:12; John 11:7, 11; John 19:28; Hebrews 9:27; (Revelation 7:1 L T Tr WH); μετά ταῦτα (cf. Winer's Grammar, 162 (153)), Mark 16:12; Luke 5:27; Luke 10:1; Luke 12:4 (Winer's Grammar, as above);; Acts 7:7; Acts 13:20; Acts 15:16; Acts 18:1; John 3:22; John 5:1, 14; John 6:1; John 7:1; John 13:7; John 19:38; John 21:1; Hebrews 4:8; 1 Peter 1:11; Revelation 1:19; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 7:1 (Rec.),; , and very often in Greek writings it stands before the neuter of adjectives of quantity, measure, and time: μετ' οὐ πολύ, not long after (R. V. after no long time), Acts 27:14; μετά μικρόν, shortly after (A. V. after a little while), Matthew 26:73; Mark 14:70; μετά βραχύ, Luke 22:58; also before infinitives with the neuter article (Latinpostquam with a finite verb (cf. Buttmann, § 140, 11; Winer's Grammar, § 44, 6)); — the aorist infinitive: Matthew 26:32; Mark 1:14; Mark 14:28; Mark 16:19; Luke 12:5; Luke 22:20 (WH reject the passage); Acts 1:3; Acts 7:4; Acts 10:41; Acts 15:13; Acts 20:1; 1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 10:26.