μέλος melos

Greek word for “member” · Strong’s G3196 · used 34 times in 24 verses

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Meaning

μέλος, -ους, τό; a member, limb of the body: 12:19 12:26 (WH, mg.);

How it is translated

Glosses given for melos in context, with how often each is used:

• members 28
• member 5
• members? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Corinthians 12 (9), Matthew 5 (2), Romans 6 (2), Romans 7 (2), Romans 12 (2), James 3 (2), 1 Corinthians 6 (1), Ephesians 4 (1), Ephesians 5 (1), Colossians 3 (1)

Forms

• μέλη 22
• μέλος 5
• μέλεσιν 3
• μελῶν 2
• μέλεσίν 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with melos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• σῶμα sōma “body” 15
• εἷς ehis “one” 10
• γέεννα geenna “hell” 3
• πολύς polus “much” 6
• οὕτως ohutō, ohutōs “thus(-ly)” 4
• ἀκαθαρσία akatharsia “impurity” 2
• ἀλλήλων allēlōn “one another” 3
• ὅλος holos “all” 3
• καθάπερ kathaper “just as” 2
• συμφέρω sumpherō “be profitable” 2
• ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin” 3
• ἀδικία adikia “unrighteousness” 2

Key verses

The verses using melos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 5:29 — And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy…
• Romans 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your…
• Romans 6:19 — I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto…
• Romans 7:5 — For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Romans 7:23 — But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
• 1 Corinthians 6:15 — Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
• 1 Corinthians 12:12 — For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
• Ephesians 4:25 — Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• Colossians 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is…
• James 3:5 — Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
• James 3:6 — And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature;…
• James 4:1 — From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.