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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. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:30 - 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 your members than that your whole body go into hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:13 - Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments 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 your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:23 - but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:5 - so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members 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 of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:14 - For the body does not consist of one member but of many.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:18 - But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:20 - As it is, there are many parts,[fn] yet one body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:22 - On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:26 - If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:27 - Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:[fn] sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:5 - So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze 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, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[fn] and set on fire by hell.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:1 - What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[fn] are at war within you?[fn]
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