Bible word study

Meta (Strong’s G3326): Meaning in the Bible

Meta (μετά) is the Greek word numbered G3326 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, denoting accompaniment; "amid" (local or causal); modified variously according to the case (genitive association, or accusative succession) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between G575 or G1537 and G1519 or G4314; less intimate than G1722 and less close than G4862). In the King James Bible it is translated after(-ward), X that he again, against, among, X and.

• Original wordμετά
• Transliterationmetá
• Pronunciationmet-ah'
• Strong’s numberG3326
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primary preposition (often used adverbially);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Meta appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Meta (G3326) stands behind 470 English renderings in 441 verses across 24 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (70), Acts (67), Luke (63).

How the King James Bible renders Meta, by count

• with346 of 470 (74 percent)
• after88 of 470 (19 percent)
• among5 of 470 (1 percent)
• afterward4 of 470 (1 percent)
• against4 of 470 (1 percent)
• hereafter4 of 470 (1 percent)

Three places to read Meta

• Matthew 1:12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
• Luke 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
• Acts 27:14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Meta in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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