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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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:29 - “But if your right eye makes you [fn]stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you [fn]to lose one of the parts G3196 of your body, [fn]than for your whole body to be thrown into [fn]hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:30 - “And if your right hand makes you [fn]stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you [fn]to lose one of the parts G3196 of your body, [fn]than for your whole body to go into [fn]hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:13 - and do not go on presenting your members G3196 to sin as [fn]instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members G3196 as [fn]instruments of righteousness to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:19 - I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members G3196 as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, [fn]leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members G3196 as slaves to righteousness, [fn]leading to sanctification.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:5 - For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in our members G3196 to bear fruit for death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:23 - but I see a different law in my members G3196, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive [fn]to the law of sin which is in my members G3196.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:4 - For just as we have many members G3196 in one body and all the members G3196 do not have the same function,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:5 - so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members G3196 one of 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 G3196 of Christ? Shall I then take away the members G3196 of Christ and make them members G3196 of a prostitute? May it never be!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:12 -

For even as the body is one and yet has many members G3196, and all the members G3196 of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:14 -

For also the body is not one member G3196, but many.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:18 - But now God has appointed the members G3196, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:19 - And if they were all one member G3196, where would the body be?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:20 - But now there are many members G3196, but one body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:22 - On the contrary, how much more is it that the members G3196 of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:25 - so that there may be no [fn]division in the body, but that the members G3196 may have the same care for one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:26 - And if one member G3196 suffers, all the members G3196 suffer with it; if one member G3196 is [fn]honored, all the members G3196 rejoice with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:27 -

Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members G3196 of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:25 -

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members G3196 of one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:30 - because we are members G3196 of His body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 -

Therefore, [fn]consider the members G3196 of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:5 - So also the tongue is a small part G3196 of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.

Behold how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:6 - And the tongue is a fire, the very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members G3196 as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our [fn]existence, and is set on fire by [fn]hell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:1 -

[fn]What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? [fn]Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members G3196?

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