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Lexicon :: Strong's G3196 - melos

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μέλος
Transliteration
melos (Key)
Pronunciation
mel'-os
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:555,577

Strong’s Definitions

μέλος mélos, mel'-os; of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body:—member.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's G3196 in the following manner: member (34x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's G3196 in the following manner: member (34x).

  1. a member, limb: a member of the human body

    1. of bodies given up to criminal intercourse, because they are as it were members belonging to the harlot's body

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μέλος mélos, mel'-os; of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body:—member.
STRONGS G3196:
μέλος, μελους, τό (from Homer down), a member, limb: properly, a member of the human body, Romans 12:4; 1 Corinthians 12:12, 14, 18-20, 25; James 3:5; τά μελα τοῦ σώματος, 1 Corinthians 12:12, 22; μου, σου, ἡμῶν, ὑμῶν, Matthew 5:29; Romans 6:13, 19; Romans 7:5, 23; Colossians 3:5; James 3:6; James 4:1; πόρνης μέλη is said of bodies given up to criminal intercourse, because they are as it were members belonging to the harlot's body, 1 Corinthians 6:15. Since Christians are closely united by the bond of one and the same spirit both among themselves and with Christ as the head, their fellowship is likened to the body, and individual Christians are metaphorically, styled μέλη — now one of another, ἀλλήλων: Romans 12:5; Ephesians 4:25; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 46, 7 [ET] (cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans iii., p. 45) — now of the mystical body, i. e. the church: 1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 5:30 (cf. Ephesians 4:16 WH marginal reading); τά σώματα of Christians are called μέλη, of Christ, because the body is the abode of the spirit of Christ and is consecrated to Christ's service, 1 Corinthians 6:15.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:29
Romans
6:13; 6:19; 7:5; 7:23; 12:4; 12:5
1 Corinthians
6:15; 6:15; 12; 12:12; 12:12; 12:14; 12:22; 12:25; 12:27
Ephesians
4:16; 4:25; 5:30
Colossians
3:5
James
3:5; 3:6; 4:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3196 matches the Greek μέλος (melos),
which occurs 34 times in 24 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:29 - If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:30 - If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:13 - and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:19 - (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:5 - For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:23 - But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:4 - For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:5 - so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:15 - Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:12 - For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body - though many - are one body, so too is Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:14 - For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:18 - But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:19 - If they were all the same member, where would the body be?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:20 - So now there are many members, but one body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:22 - On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:25 - so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:26 - If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:27 - Now you are Christ's body, and each of you is a member of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:25 - Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:30 - for we are members of his body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:5 - So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:6 - And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence - and is set on fire by hell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:1 - Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
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