Strong G3313μέρος
part
- Transliteration
- meros
- Pronunciation
- mer'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From an obsolete but more primary form of μείρομαι meiromai (to get as a section or allotment); a division or share (literally or figuratively in a wide application): - behalf coast course craft particular (+ -ly) part (+ -ly) piece portion respect side some sort (-what).
Detailed definition
μέρος, -ους, τό
(μείρομαι), [in LXX chiefly for קָצֶה;]
1. a part, share, portion: Jhn.13:8, Act.19:27 (Page, in l), Rev.20:6 22:19; hence (cl.), lot, destiny, Mat.24:51, Luk.12:46, Rev.21:8.
2. a part as opposite to the whole: Luk.11:36, Jhn.19:23, Act.5:2 23:6, Eph.4:16, Rev.16:19; with genitive (of the whole), Luk.15:12 24:42; τ. Φαρισαίων, Act.23:9; pl., Jhn.21:6; of the divisions of a province, Mat.2:22, Act.2:10 19:1 20:2; of the regions belonging to a city, Mat.15:21 16:13, Mrk.8:10; with genitive appos., Eph.4:9; in adverbial phrases, ἀνὰ (κατὰ) μέρος, 1Co.14:27, Heb.9:5; μέρος τι, ἀπὸ μ., in part, Rom.11:25 15:15, 24, 1Co.11:18, 2Co.1:14 2:5; ἐκ μ., 1Co.12:27 13:9 13:12; τὸ ἐκ μ., 1Co.13:10
3. A class or category (in cl. usually ἐν μ. τιθέναι, λαβεῖν, etc.):ἐν μ., in respect of, Col.2:16; ἐν τ. μ, τούτῳ, in this respect, 2Co.3:10 9:3.†
(AS)
(μείρομαι), [in LXX chiefly for קָצֶה;]
1. a part, share, portion: Jhn.13:8, Act.19:27 (Page, in l), Rev.20:6 22:19; hence (cl.), lot, destiny, Mat.24:51, Luk.12:46, Rev.21:8.
2. a part as opposite to the whole: Luk.11:36, Jhn.19:23, Act.5:2 23:6, Eph.4:16, Rev.16:19; with genitive (of the whole), Luk.15:12 24:42; τ. Φαρισαίων, Act.23:9; pl., Jhn.21:6; of the divisions of a province, Mat.2:22, Act.2:10 19:1 20:2; of the regions belonging to a city, Mat.15:21 16:13, Mrk.8:10; with genitive appos., Eph.4:9; in adverbial phrases, ἀνὰ (κατὰ) μέρος, 1Co.14:27, Heb.9:5; μέρος τι, ἀπὸ μ., in part, Rom.11:25 15:15, 24, 1Co.11:18, 2Co.1:14 2:5; ἐκ μ., 1Co.12:27 13:9 13:12; τὸ ἐκ μ., 1Co.13:10
3. A class or category (in cl. usually ἐν μ. τιθέναι, λαβεῖν, etc.):ἐν μ., in respect of, Col.2:16; ἐν τ. μ, τούτῳ, in this respect, 2Co.3:10 9:3.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3313 appears in 41 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- part22
- coast3
- portion3
- behalf2
- respect2
- course1
- craft1
- particular1
- particularly1
- partly1
- piece1
- side1
First verses
- Matthew 2:22But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
- Matthew 15:21Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
- Matthew 16:13When Jesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
- Matthew 24:51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Mark 8:10And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
- Luke 11:36If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
- Luke 12:46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- Luke 15:12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
- Luke 24:42And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
- John 13:8Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
- John 19:23Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
- John 21:6And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
- Acts 2:10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
- Acts 5:2And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
- Acts 19:1And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
- Acts 19:27So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
- Acts 20:2And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
- Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
- Acts 23:9And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
- Romans 11:25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
μέρος, εος, τό,
(μείρομαι) first in [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 399 (see. infr. IV), “hymnus ad Mercurium” 53 (see. infr. II. 2))]:— share, portion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.77, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.145, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.167 (from Cyrene), etc.; μέρος ἔχοντα Μουσᾶν 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 3.71; ἔχει δόμων μ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 483; κτεάνων μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1574 (_anapaest meter_); συμβαλέσθαι τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 41.11; τὰ μ. τινῶν κομίζεσθαι [prev. passage]; λαβεῖν τῆς μεθόδου τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295a3)]; of work put out to contract, allotment, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.463.7, 26.)]
2 heritage, lot, destiny, μεθέξειν τάφου μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 507; ἔχετον κοινοῦ θανάτου μ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 147 (_anapaest meter_))]; τοῦτο γὰρ.. σπάνιον μ. is a rare portion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 474 (Lyric poetry))]; ἀπὸ μέρους προτιμᾶσθαι from considerations of rank or family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37.)]
II one's turn, ἐπείτε αὐτῆς μ. ἐγίνετο τῆς ἀπίξιος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.69; μ. ἑκατέρῳ νέμειν [prev. author] 2.173)]; ὅταν ἥκῃ μ. ἔργων the turn or time for.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 827 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 540b)]; ἀγγέλου μ. his turn of duty as messenger, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 291.)]
II.2 with Preps., ἀνὰ μέρος in turn, successively, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 478, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287a17; κατὰ μέρος “hymnus ad Mercurium” 53, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26, etc.)]; κατὰ μ. λέγειν severally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 157b; κατὰ μέρη ἄκουε [prev. work] 182b)]; τὰ κατὰ μέρος the particulars, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 23, “D.” 1.22; τὸ κατὰ μ. ἄστρον [prev. work]3.9; ἐν μέρεϊ)] in turn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.26, +others)]; κλῦθί νυν ἐν μ., ἀντάκουσον ἐν μ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 332 (Lyric poetry), “Eu.” 198)]; by turns, in succession, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ag.” 332, 1192, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.93; ἐν μ. καὶ ἐφεξῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 819b)]; ἐν τῷ μέρει in one's turn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.70, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 452, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 32, 497, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 462a)]; ἐν τῷ μ. καὶ παρὰ τὸ μ. in and out of turn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.36)]; παρὰ μέρος in turn, by turns, ἄρχειν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 10, cf. Ant. 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista 30.1, 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.8.10, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.33 P.; [ἡ ψυχὴ] παρὰ μ. ἐν τῇ γενέσει γίνεται καὶ ἐν τοῖς θεοῖς ἐστιν 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 206)] (but also, partially, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.66).)]
III the part one takes in a thing, μέτεστι χὑμῖν τῶν πεπραγμένων μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1299)]; ὑμέτερον μ. [ἐστί] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 180a.)]
III.2 frequently in periphrases, τοὐμὸν μέρος, τὸ σὸν μ., my or thy part, i.e. simply I or me, thou or thee, ὅσον τὸ σὸν μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1509, compare “Ant.” 1062, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 45d: _absolutely_ as)] adverb, τοὐμὸν μ. as to me, οὐ καμῇ τοὐμὸν μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1215, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 678)]; τὸ σὸν μέρος as to thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1366; τοὐκείνου μ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 989: rarely, κατὰ τὸ σὸν μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 328e.)]
IV part, opposed to the whole, ὡρέων τρίτατον μ. [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 399, etc.)]; τρίτον κασιγνητᾶν μ., i. e. one of three sisters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 12.11; μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.1)]; τὰ δύο μ. two-thirds,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 104, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.143, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.101; τρία μέρη.., τὸ δὲ τέταρτον 1st c.BC: Nicolaus Damascenus Historicus 130.17 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; οὐδὲν ἂν μέρος οὖσαι φανεῖεν τῶν.. no fraction of.., i. e. infinitesimal compared with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.43, compare 12.54)]; ὅσα ἄλλα μ. ἐντὸς τοῦ Ἴστρου parts of the country, regions, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, compare 4.98)]; ξυγκαταδουλοῦν.. τὸ τῆς θαλάσσης μ., i. e. the sea as their part of the business, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.46)]: hence, branch, business, matter, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 17, “Pk.” 107, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.4.2, 1.20.8, +others, “PRyl.” 127 (1st c.AD))]; τὰ τοῦ σώματος μέλη καὶ μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 795e)]; division of an army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.23, etc.)]; class or party, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.292)]; of the factions in the circus, πρασίνων μ. [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 145.2 (6th c.AD))]; party in a contract or lawsuit, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 168.24 (2nd c.AD), “PRein.” 44.34 (2nd c.AD))]; caste, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.39)]:—special uses, in Geometry texts, direction, ἐπὶ θάτερον μ. interpolated in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἰσορροπιῶν” 1.13, compare 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1.27, +others)]: Arith., submultiple, [Refs ([prev. author] 7 “Def.” 3, 4)]; τὰ μ. the denominators of fractions, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “*Stereom.” 2.14: Grammars, μ. τῆς λέξεως)] part of speech, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456b20, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 2: more frequently μ. λόγου 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.4, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 4.6, +others)]; μ. λόγου, also, = word, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.159, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 1.4 (see. λόγος I 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 3 c))]; section of a document, Mitteis [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 28.30 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]
IV.2 _absolutely_ as adverb, μέρος τι in part, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.30, etc.)]; μέρος μέν τι.., μέρος δέ τι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.12)]; τὸ πλεῖστον μ. for the most part, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 22.10.)]
IV.2.b with Preps., κατά τι μέρος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 757e; κατὰ τὸ πολὺ μ. [prev. author] “Ti.” 86d)]; ἐκ μέρους in part, γινώσκομεν [NT (NT.1Cor.13.9 (but ἐκ μ. τινός)] by the side of, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.6.8)]; ἐκ μ. τῶν ὁρίων[LXX (LXX.Num.20.16; ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς μέρους [prev. work] 8.2))]; ἐκ τοῦ πλείστου μ. for the most part, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.2.4)]; ἀπὸ μέρους in part, [NT+1st c.AD+ (Antip.Stoic. 3.249, “BGU” 1201.15 (1st c.AD), NT.2Cor.2.5; ἐπὶ μέρους 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Bis Acc.” 2; τὰς ἐπὶ μέρους γράφειν πράξεις)] special histories, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.7.6; αἱ ἐπὶ μ. συντάξεις [prev. author] 3.32.10)]; πρὸς μέρος in proportion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.22, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.32.)]
IV.3 ἐν μέρει τινὸς τιθέναι, etc., to put in the class of.., consider as so and so, εἰ ἐν ἀρετῆς τιθεῖς μέρει τὴν ἀδικίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348e; οὐ τίθημ᾽ ἐν ἀδικήματος μ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.148; also ἐν τεκμηρίου μ. ποιεῖσθαι τἀδίκημα [prev. author] 44.50)]; ἐν οὐδενὸς εἶναι μ. to be as no one, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 2.18; μήτ᾽ ἐν ἀνθρώπου μ. μήτ᾽ ἐν θεοῦ ζῆν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 240.2)]; ἐν προσθήκης μ. as an appendage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.8; ἐν ὑπηρέτου καὶ προσθήκης μ. γίγνεσθαι [prev. author] 3.31; ἐν χάριτος μ. [prev. author] 21.165; τοῦτ᾽ ἐν εὐεργεσίας ἀριθμήσει μ. [prev. work]166; ἐν ἰδιώτου μ. διαγαγεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.24; ὡς ἐν παιδιᾶς μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 424d; also εἰς εὐεργεσίας μέρος καταθέσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.17.)]
IV.4 in local sense, district, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (POxy. 2113.25 (4th c.AD).)]
IV.5 in Neo-Platonism, by way of species or element, ἐν μέρει καὶ ὡς στοιχεῖον [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 193)]; οὕτω ὁ μέγας Ἰάμβλιχος ἐνόησεν τὸ ἓν ὂν ἐν μέρει ἑκάτερον[Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 176; πάντα μὲν ἅμα, ἐν μέρει δὲ ἕκαστον 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.6.18.)]
(μείρομαι) first in [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 399 (see. infr. IV), “hymnus ad Mercurium” 53 (see. infr. II. 2))]:— share, portion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.77, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.145, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.167 (from Cyrene), etc.; μέρος ἔχοντα Μουσᾶν 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 3.71; ἔχει δόμων μ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 483; κτεάνων μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1574 (_anapaest meter_); συμβαλέσθαι τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 41.11; τὰ μ. τινῶν κομίζεσθαι [prev. passage]; λαβεῖν τῆς μεθόδου τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295a3)]; of work put out to contract, allotment, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.463.7, 26.)]
2 heritage, lot, destiny, μεθέξειν τάφου μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 507; ἔχετον κοινοῦ θανάτου μ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 147 (_anapaest meter_))]; τοῦτο γὰρ.. σπάνιον μ. is a rare portion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 474 (Lyric poetry))]; ἀπὸ μέρους προτιμᾶσθαι from considerations of rank or family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37.)]
II one's turn, ἐπείτε αὐτῆς μ. ἐγίνετο τῆς ἀπίξιος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.69; μ. ἑκατέρῳ νέμειν [prev. author] 2.173)]; ὅταν ἥκῃ μ. ἔργων the turn or time for.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 827 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 540b)]; ἀγγέλου μ. his turn of duty as messenger, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 291.)]
II.2 with Preps., ἀνὰ μέρος in turn, successively, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 478, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287a17; κατὰ μέρος “hymnus ad Mercurium” 53, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26, etc.)]; κατὰ μ. λέγειν severally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 157b; κατὰ μέρη ἄκουε [prev. work] 182b)]; τὰ κατὰ μέρος the particulars, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 23, “D.” 1.22; τὸ κατὰ μ. ἄστρον [prev. work]3.9; ἐν μέρεϊ)] in turn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.26, +others)]; κλῦθί νυν ἐν μ., ἀντάκουσον ἐν μ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 332 (Lyric poetry), “Eu.” 198)]; by turns, in succession, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ag.” 332, 1192, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.93; ἐν μ. καὶ ἐφεξῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 819b)]; ἐν τῷ μέρει in one's turn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.70, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 452, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 32, 497, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 462a)]; ἐν τῷ μ. καὶ παρὰ τὸ μ. in and out of turn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.36)]; παρὰ μέρος in turn, by turns, ἄρχειν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 10, cf. Ant. 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista 30.1, 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.8.10, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.33 P.; [ἡ ψυχὴ] παρὰ μ. ἐν τῇ γενέσει γίνεται καὶ ἐν τοῖς θεοῖς ἐστιν 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 206)] (but also, partially, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.66).)]
III the part one takes in a thing, μέτεστι χὑμῖν τῶν πεπραγμένων μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1299)]; ὑμέτερον μ. [ἐστί] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 180a.)]
III.2 frequently in periphrases, τοὐμὸν μέρος, τὸ σὸν μ., my or thy part, i.e. simply I or me, thou or thee, ὅσον τὸ σὸν μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1509, compare “Ant.” 1062, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 45d: _absolutely_ as)] adverb, τοὐμὸν μ. as to me, οὐ καμῇ τοὐμὸν μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1215, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 678)]; τὸ σὸν μέρος as to thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1366; τοὐκείνου μ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 989: rarely, κατὰ τὸ σὸν μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 328e.)]
IV part, opposed to the whole, ὡρέων τρίτατον μ. [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 399, etc.)]; τρίτον κασιγνητᾶν μ., i. e. one of three sisters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 12.11; μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.1)]; τὰ δύο μ. two-thirds,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 104, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.143, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.101; τρία μέρη.., τὸ δὲ τέταρτον 1st c.BC: Nicolaus Damascenus Historicus 130.17 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; οὐδὲν ἂν μέρος οὖσαι φανεῖεν τῶν.. no fraction of.., i. e. infinitesimal compared with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.43, compare 12.54)]; ὅσα ἄλλα μ. ἐντὸς τοῦ Ἴστρου parts of the country, regions, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, compare 4.98)]; ξυγκαταδουλοῦν.. τὸ τῆς θαλάσσης μ., i. e. the sea as their part of the business, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.46)]: hence, branch, business, matter, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 17, “Pk.” 107, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.4.2, 1.20.8, +others, “PRyl.” 127 (1st c.AD))]; τὰ τοῦ σώματος μέλη καὶ μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 795e)]; division of an army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.23, etc.)]; class or party, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.292)]; of the factions in the circus, πρασίνων μ. [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 145.2 (6th c.AD))]; party in a contract or lawsuit, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 168.24 (2nd c.AD), “PRein.” 44.34 (2nd c.AD))]; caste, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.39)]:—special uses, in Geometry texts, direction, ἐπὶ θάτερον μ. interpolated in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἰσορροπιῶν” 1.13, compare 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1.27, +others)]: Arith., submultiple, [Refs ([prev. author] 7 “Def.” 3, 4)]; τὰ μ. the denominators of fractions, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “*Stereom.” 2.14: Grammars, μ. τῆς λέξεως)] part of speech, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456b20, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 2: more frequently μ. λόγου 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.4, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 4.6, +others)]; μ. λόγου, also, = word, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.159, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 1.4 (see. λόγος I 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 3 c))]; section of a document, Mitteis [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 28.30 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]
IV.2 _absolutely_ as adverb, μέρος τι in part, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.30, etc.)]; μέρος μέν τι.., μέρος δέ τι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.12)]; τὸ πλεῖστον μ. for the most part, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 22.10.)]
IV.2.b with Preps., κατά τι μέρος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 757e; κατὰ τὸ πολὺ μ. [prev. author] “Ti.” 86d)]; ἐκ μέρους in part, γινώσκομεν [NT (NT.1Cor.13.9 (but ἐκ μ. τινός)] by the side of, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.6.8)]; ἐκ μ. τῶν ὁρίων[LXX (LXX.Num.20.16; ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς μέρους [prev. work] 8.2))]; ἐκ τοῦ πλείστου μ. for the most part, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.2.4)]; ἀπὸ μέρους in part, [NT+1st c.AD+ (Antip.Stoic. 3.249, “BGU” 1201.15 (1st c.AD), NT.2Cor.2.5; ἐπὶ μέρους 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Bis Acc.” 2; τὰς ἐπὶ μέρους γράφειν πράξεις)] special histories, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.7.6; αἱ ἐπὶ μ. συντάξεις [prev. author] 3.32.10)]; πρὸς μέρος in proportion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.22, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.32.)]
IV.3 ἐν μέρει τινὸς τιθέναι, etc., to put in the class of.., consider as so and so, εἰ ἐν ἀρετῆς τιθεῖς μέρει τὴν ἀδικίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348e; οὐ τίθημ᾽ ἐν ἀδικήματος μ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.148; also ἐν τεκμηρίου μ. ποιεῖσθαι τἀδίκημα [prev. author] 44.50)]; ἐν οὐδενὸς εἶναι μ. to be as no one, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 2.18; μήτ᾽ ἐν ἀνθρώπου μ. μήτ᾽ ἐν θεοῦ ζῆν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 240.2)]; ἐν προσθήκης μ. as an appendage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.8; ἐν ὑπηρέτου καὶ προσθήκης μ. γίγνεσθαι [prev. author] 3.31; ἐν χάριτος μ. [prev. author] 21.165; τοῦτ᾽ ἐν εὐεργεσίας ἀριθμήσει μ. [prev. work]166; ἐν ἰδιώτου μ. διαγαγεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.24; ὡς ἐν παιδιᾶς μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 424d; also εἰς εὐεργεσίας μέρος καταθέσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.17.)]
IV.4 in local sense, district, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (POxy. 2113.25 (4th c.AD).)]
IV.5 in Neo-Platonism, by way of species or element, ἐν μέρει καὶ ὡς στοιχεῖον [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 193)]; οὕτω ὁ μέγας Ἰάμβλιχος ἐνόησεν τὸ ἓν ὂν ἐν μέρει ἑκάτερον[Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 176; πάντα μὲν ἅμα, ἐν μέρει δὲ ἕκαστον 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.6.18.)]