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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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“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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“And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

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And do not offer any parts[fn] of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

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I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh.[fn] For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us[fn] to bear fruit for death.

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but I see a different law in the parts of my body,[fn] waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

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Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function,

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in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

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Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

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For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body ​— ​so also is Christ.

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Indeed, the body is not one part but many.

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But as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted.

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And if they were all the same part, where would the body be?

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As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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On the contrary, those parts of the body that are weaker are indispensable.

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so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.

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So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it.

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Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

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since we are members of his body.[fn]

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Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

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So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest.

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And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed[fn] among our members. It stains the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

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What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?[fn]

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