G3155 – maten – μάτην – vainly, pointlessly, with futility
- Strong’s ID:
- G3155
- Greek Word:
- μάτην
- Transliteration:
- matēn / maten
- Pronunciation:
- mat’-ane
- Part of Speech:
- adverb
- Etymology:
- accusative of a derivative of the base of G3145 (through the idea of tentative manipulation, i.e. unsuccessful search, or else of punishment)
- Usage Count:
- 2
- Search:
- Find “maten” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
1) vainly
2) pointlessly
3) with futility
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
accusative of a derivative of the base of G3145 (through the idea of tentative manipulation, i.e. unsuccessful search, or else of punishment); folly, i.e. (adverbially) to no purpose:—in vain.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) in vain, fruitlessly
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.