Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
a measurer, i.e. (specially), a certain standard measure of capacity for liquids
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
pr. a measurer; also, metretes, Latin metreta, equivalent to the Attic ἀμφορεύς, i.e., three-fourths of the Attic μέδιμνος, and therefore equal to about nine gallons, Jn. 2:6*
Translated in KJV as
firkin
Etymology
from G3354 (μετρέω);
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