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Strong's #280 - ἄμετρος
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- without measure, immense
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ἄμετρος, ον,
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1. without or beyond measure, immense, κακόν Simon. 37.16 codd.; opp. μετρητός, Pl. Lg. 820c. Adv. -τρως Id. Phd. 86c, etc.: neut. pl. as Adv., Babr. 11.10.
2. immoderate, in moral sense, Pl. Lg. 690e, etc. Adv. -τρως X. Cyr. 1.6.34.
3. neverceasing, τέττιγες Simon. 174.
4. disproportionate, Pl. Ti. 87e: Sup. -ότατος most unequal, Cleom. 1.7.
II without metre, prosaic, opp. ἔμμετρος, Arist. Po. 1451b1, D.H. Comp. 3, etc. Adv. -τρως unmetrically, Critias 4; not in metre, Poll. 1.19.
III ἄμετρος, = βάτος, Dsc. 4.37.
ἄμετρος, (μέτρον a measure), without measure, immense: 2 Corinthians 10:13, 15f (εἰς τά ἄμετρα καυχᾶσθαι to boast to an immense extent, i. e. beyond measure, excessively). (Plato, Xenophon, Anthol. iv., p. 170, and ii. 206, Jacobs edition.)
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*ἄμετρος , -ον
(< μέτρον ),
without measure: adverbially, εἰς τὰ ἄ ., excessively, 2 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 10:15†
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The form ἀμέτρητος occurs in a touching sepulchral inscription regarding a husband and wife from Rhodes IMAe 149 (ii/B.C.) : ταὐτὰ λέγοντες ταὐτὰ φρονοῦντες ἤλθομεν τὰν ἀμέτρητον ὁδὸν εἰς Ἀΐδαν .
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