μέρος

μέρος — méros

ἀναμερος, i. e. ἀνά μέρος, see ἀνά, 1.)

STRONGS NT 3313: μέροςμέρος, μέρους, τό (μείρομαι to share, receive one's due portion) (from Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus down), a part; i. e.:

1. a part due or assigned to one (German Antheil): ἀφαιρεῖν, τό μέρος τίνος (genitive of person) ἀπό or ἐκ τίνος (genitive of the thing), Rev 22:19; ἔχειν μέρος ἐν with the dative of the thing, Rev 20:6; μέρος ἔχειν μετά τίνος (participation in the same thing, i. e.) to have part (fellowship) with one, Joh 13:8; hence, as sometimes in classical Greek (Euripides, Alc. 477 (474)), lot, destiny, assigned to one, Rev 21:8; τιθέναι τό μέρος τίνος τινων, to appoint one his lot with certain persons, Mat 24:51; Luk 12:46.

2. one of the constituent parts of a whole;

a. universally: in a context where the whole and its parts are distinguished, Luk 11:36; Joh 19:23; Rev 16:19; with a genitive of the whole, Luk 15:12; Luk 24:42; where it is evident from the context of what whole it is a part, Act 5:2; Eph 4:16; τό ἕν μέρος namely, τοῦ συνεδρίου, Act 23:6; τοῦ μέρους τῶν Φαρισαίων, of that part of the Sanhedrin which consisted of Pharisees, Act 23:9 (not Lachmann); τά μέρη, with the genitive of a province or country, the divisions or regions which make up the land or province, Mat 2:22; Act 2:10; with the genitive of a city, the region belonging to a city, country around it, Mat 15:21; Mat 16:13; Mar 8:10; τά ἀνωτερικά μέρη, the upper districts (in tacit contrast with τά κατώτερα, and with them forming one whole), Act 19:1; τά μέρη ἐκεῖνα, those regions (which are parts of the country just mentioned, i. e. Macedonia), Act 20:2; τά κατώτερα μέρη with the genitive of apposition, τῆς γῆς, Eph 4:9 (on which see κατώτερος); εἰς τά δεξιά μέρη τοῦ πλοίου, i. e. into the parts (i. e. spots namely, of the lake) on the right side of the ship, Joh 21:6. Adverbial phrases: ἀνά μέρος (see ἀνά, 1), 1Co 14:27; κατά μέρος, severally, part by part, in detail, Heb 9:5 (see κατά, II. 3 a. γ.); μέρος τί (accusative, absolutely) in part, partly, 1Co 11:18 (Thucydides 2, 64; 4, 30; Isocrates, p. 426 d.); ἀπό μέρους, in part, i. e. somewhat, 2Co 1:14; in a measure, to some degree, 2Co 2:5; (Rom 15:24); as respects a part, Rom 11:25 : here and there, Rom 15:15; ἐκ μέρους as respects individual persons and things, severally, individually, 1Co 12:27; in part, partially, i. e. imperfectly, 1Co 13:9; 1Co 13:12; τό ἐκ μέρους (opposed to τό τέλειον) (A. V. that which is in part) imperfect (Luth. well,das Stückwerk), 1Co 13:10. (Green (Critical Note on 2Co 1:14) says "ἀπό μέρους differs in Paul's usage from ἐκ μέρους in that the latter is a contrasted term in express opposition to the idea of a complete whole, the other being used simply without such aim"; cf. Bernhardy (1829) Syntax, p. 230; Meyer on 1Co 12:27.)

b. any particular, German Stück (where the writer means to intimate that there are other matters, to be separated from that which be has specified): ἐν τῷ μέρει τούτῳ, in this particular i. e. in regard to this, in this respect, 1Pe 4:16 R; 2Co 3:10; 2Co 9:3; with a genitive of the thing, Col 2:16 (where see Lightfoot); τοῦτο τό μέρος, namely, τῆς ἐργασίας ἡμῶν (branch of business), Act 19:27, cf. Act 19:25.