- Transliteration: meta

- Phonetic: met-ah'

- Definition:

1. with, after, behind

- Origin: a primary preposition (often used adverbially)

- TDNT entry: 19:46,1

- Part(s) of speech: Preposition

- Strong's: A primary preposition (often used adverbially); properly denoting accompaniment; amid (local or causal); modified variously according to the case (genitive case association or accusative case succession) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between G575" class="dictionary-topic-link">G575 or G1537" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1537 and G1519" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1519 or G4314" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4314; less intimate than G1722" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1722 and less close than G4862" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4862)i : - after (-ward)6X that he again against among X and + follow hence hereafter in of (up-) on + our X and setting since (un-) to + together when with (+ -out). Often used in composition in substantially the same relations of participation or proximity and transfer or sequence.