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G3389

μητρολῴας

mētrolōas

Masculine noun · From μήτηρ (G3384) and the base of ἅλων (G257)

From G3384 and the base of G257; a mother-thresher, i.e. matricide:—murderer of mothers.

Outline

  1. matricide, the murderer of a mother

Usages

1 Timothy 1:9

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Breakdown

law is not made for a righteous man A righteous man will, by definition, keep the law and therefore have no need for the law.

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