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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 MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:29 - “If your right eye makes you stumble and leads you to sin, tear it out and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:30 - “If your right hand makes you stumble and leads you to sin, cut it off and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:13 - Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities—sanctified, set apart] as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:19 - I am speaking in [familiar] human terms because of your natural limitations [your spiritual immaturity]. For just as you presented your bodily members as slaves to impurity and to [moral] lawlessness, leading to further lawlessness, so now offer your members [your abilities, your talents] as slaves to righteousness, leading to [fn]sanctification [that is, being set apart for God’s purpose].

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:5 - When we were living in the flesh [trapped by sin], the sinful passions, which were awakened by [that which] the Law [identifies as sin], were at work in our body to bear fruit for death [since the willingness to sin led to death and separation from God].

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:23 - but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:4 - For just as in one [physical] body we have many parts, and these parts do not all have the same function or special use,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:5 - so we, who are many, are [nevertheless just] one body in Christ, and individually [we are] parts one of another [mutually dependent on each other].

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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? Am I therefore to take the members of Christ and make them part of a [fn]prostitute? Certainly not!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:12 -

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so [fn]it is with Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:14 -

For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:18 - But now [as things really are], God has placed and arranged the parts in the body, each one of them, just as He willed and saw fit [with the best balance of function].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:19 - If they all were a single organ, where would [the rest of] the body be?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:20 - But now [as things really are] there are many parts [different limbs and organs], but a single body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:22 - But quite the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are [absolutely] necessary;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:25 - so that there would be no division or discord in the body [that is, lack of adaptation of the parts to each other], but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:26 - And if one member suffers, all the parts share the suffering; if one member is honored, all rejoice with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:27 -

Now you [collectively] are Christ’s body, and individually [you are] members of it [each with his own special purpose and function].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:25 -

Therefore, rejecting all falsehood [whether lying, defrauding, telling half-truths, spreading rumors, any such as these], SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are all parts of one another [and we are all parts of the body of Christ].

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:30 - because we are members (parts) of His body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 -

So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God].

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:5 - In the same sense, the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.

See [by comparison] how great a forest is set on fire by a small spark!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:6 - And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by [fn]hell (Gehenna).

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:1 -

What leads to [the unending] [fn]quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your [hedonistic] desires that wage war in your [bodily] members [fighting for control over you]?

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