Lexical Summary meris: a part, portion Original Word: μερίςTransliteration: meris Phonetic Spelling: (mer-ece') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a part, portion Meaning: a part, portion Strong's Concordance part, portionFeminine of meros; a portion, i.e. Province, share or (abstractly) participation -- part (X -akers). see GREEK meros Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3310: μερίςμερίς, μερίδος, ἡ (see μέρος), the Sept. chiefly for חֵלֶק, חֶלְקָה, מָנָה; (from Antiphon and Thucydides down); a part, equivalent to 1. a part as distinct from the whole: (τῆς) Μακεδονίας, Acts 16:12 (on which see Hort in WH's Appendix at the passage). 2. an assigned part, a portion, share: Luke 10:42 (see ἀγαθός, 2); ἐστι μοι μερίς μετά τίνος, I have a portion, i. e. fellowship, with one, 2 Corinthians 6:15. οὐκ ἐστι μοι μερίς ἤ κλῆρος ἐν τίνι, I have neither part nor lot, take no share, in a thing, Acts 8:21; ἱκανουν τινα εἰς τήν μερίδα τίνος, to make one fit to obtain a share in a thing (i. e. partitive genitive; others, genitive of apposition), Colossians 1:12. |