σιτομέτριον, σιτομετριου, τό (Attic writers said τόν σῖτον μέτρειν; out of which later writers formed the compound σιτομέτρειν, Gen_47:12,(14); Polybius 4, 63, 10; Diodorus 19, 50; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 14, 7; σιτομετρία, Diodorus 2, 41; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 383; Winer's Grammar, 25)), "a measured 'portion of' grain or 'food'": Luk_12:42. (Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.)

σιτομέτριον sitometrion 1x a certain measure of grain distributed for food at set times to the slaves of a family, a ration, Luk_12:42

*† σιτομέτριον , -ου , τό ( < σιτομετρέω , Gen_47:12 ; Gen_47:14 * , = Attic τὸν σῖτον μετρέω ), a measured portion of food: Luk_12:42 (for exx . in Papyri, v. Deiss., BS , 158; LAE , 103.1).†

σιτομέτριον (~ σιτόμετρον ) [page 576] measure of corn, allowance of corn ( Luk_12:42 ) occurs several times in Petrie papyri, e.g. III. 87 ( a ) recto .17 (iii/B.C.) κατὰ τὴν σιτομετρίαν ib. 140 ( b ) .4 , ib. 141 .15 . See also Deissmann LAE 2 p. 104 n. .1 , where reference is made to an Opramoas inscr. of A.D. 149 at Rhodiapolis in Lycia, with the spelling σειτομέτριον . For the subst. σιτομέτρης cf. P Flor II. 162 .5 (iii/A.D.) διὰ τοῦ δο̣υ̣̑ σ [ι ]τ̣ομέτρου , and Preisigke 1485 (a mummy tablet) Σισῶτος σιτομέτρης ἐβίωσεν ξ̄ , and for the verb, as in Gen_47:12 , see IG XII. vii. 515 .70 .

σιτομέτριον, -ου, τό (σιτομετρέω, Gen.47:12, 14 *, = Attic τὸν σῖτον μετρέω), a measured portion of food: Luk.12:42 (for exx. in π., see Deiss., BS, 158; LAE, 103.1).† (AS)