Greek adjective · G3189
μέλας
melasmel'-as
black
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mélas
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3189is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3189
black
The King James renders it: black.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
melas is rendered "black". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:36Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
Matthew 5:36μέλαιναν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- black3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μέλαν | melan | ink | Uses3 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μέλας2
- μέλαιναν1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular1A-ASF
Matthew
one use
Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
- μέλαινανmelainanadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: black
Revelation
two uses
And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.
- μέλαςmelasadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: black
And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
- μέλαςmelasadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: black
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.