μετρέω

metrevw metrevw,
mevtrw/; 1 aorist
ejmevtrhsa; 1 future passive
metrhqhvsomai; (
mevtron); from Homer, Odyssey 3, 179 down; the Septuagint several times for dd'm;; to measure; i. e.:1. to measure out or off, a. properly, any space or distance with a measurer's reed or rule:
tovn
naovn,
thvn
aujlhvn, etc., ; , ; with
tw'/
kalavmw/ added, ;
ejn
aujtw'/, i. e.
tw'/
kalavmw/, . b. metaphorically, to judge accoding to any rule or standard, to estimate:
ejn
w|/
mevtrw/
metrei'te, by what standard ye measure (others) (but the instrumental
ejn seems to point to a measure of capacity; cf. Winer's Grammar, 388 (363); Buttmann, sec. 133, 19. On the proverb see further below), ; ; passive to be judged, estimated, ibid.;
mevtrein
eJautovn
ejn
eJautw'/, to measure oneself by oneself, to derive from oneself the standard by which one estimates oneself, (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 31, 8 at the end).2. to measure to, mete out to, i. e. to give by measure: in the proverb
tw'/
aujtw'/
mevtrw/
w|/
metrei'te (or (so L T Tr WH)
w|/
mevtrw/
metrei'te), i. e., dropping the figure, `in proportion to your own beneficence,' . (Compare:
ajntimetrevw.)*