metav metav (on its neglect of elision before proper names beginning with a vowel, and before sundry other words (at least in Tdf.'s text) see Tdf. Proleg., p. 95; cf. WH. Introduction, p. 146b; Winer's Grammar, sec. 5, 1 a.; Buttmann, p. 10), a preposition, akin to mevso" (as German mit to Mitte, mitten) and hence, properly, in the midst of, amid, denoting association, union, accompaniment; (but some recent etymologists doubt its kinship to mevso"; some connect it rather with a{ma, German sammt, cf. Curtius, sec. 212; Vanicek, p. 972). It takes the genitive and accusative (in the Greek poets also the dative). (On the distinction between metav and suvn, see suvn, at the beginning)I. with the genitive; (the Septuagint for tae, ![i, rj'a', etc.), among, with (cf. Winer's Grammar, 376f (352f));1. amid, among; a. properly: metav tw'n nekrw'n, among the dead, (metav nekrw'n keivsomai, Euripides, Hec. 209; qavyete me metav tw'n patevrwn mou, , the Septuagint; metav zwvntwn ei\nai, to be among the living, Sophocles ); logivzesqai metav ajnovmwn, to be reckoned, numbered, among transgressor's, (G T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse) and , from (where the Septuagint ejn ajnovmoi"); metav tw'n qhrivwn ei\nai, ; gogguvzein met! ajllhvlwn, ; skhnhv tou' Qeou' metav tw'n ajnqrwvpwn, ; add, ; ; ; ; , S; , etc. b. tropically: metav diwgmw'n, amid persecutions, (metav kinduvnwn, amid perils, Thucydides 1, 18); hJ ajgavph meq! hJmw'n, love among us, mutual love, (others understand meq! hJmw'n here of the sphere or abode, and connect it with the verb; cf. DeWette, or Huther, or Westcott, in the place cited). Hence, used,2. of association and companionship, with (Latin cum; German mit, often also bei); a. after verbs of going, coming, departing, remaining, etc., with the genitive of the associate or companion: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Jesus the Messiah it is said will come hereafter metav tw'n ajggevlwn, ; ; ; Tlt. ; on the other band, with the genitive of the person to whom one joins himself as a companion: ; .; ; ; a[ggeloi met! aujtou', ; metav tivno", contextually equivalent to with one as leader, ; ; ; . peripatei'n metav tivno", to associate with one as his follower and adherent, ; givnomai metav tivno", to come into fellowship and contact with, become asso