- Transliteration: metreo

- Phonetic: met-reh'-o

- Definition:

1. to measure, to measure out or off

a. any space or distance with a measurer's reed or rule

b. metaph. to judge according to any rule or standard, to estimate

2. to measure out, mete out to, i.e. to give by measure

- Origin: from G3358" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3358

- TDNT entry: 14:32,6

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G3358" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3358; to measure (that is ascertain in size by a fixed standard); by implication to admeasure (that is allot by rule); figuratively to estimate: - measure mete.