Greek noun (neuter) · G3192
μέλι
melimel'-ee
honey
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: méli
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3192is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3192
honey
The King James renders it: honey.
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
meli is rendered "honey". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three 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 3:4John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4μέλι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four 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
- honey4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| μελίσσιος | melissios | honeycomb | Usesnot recorded |
All 4, 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
- μέλι3
- μέλι.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular3N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
Matthew
one use
John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- μέλιmelinoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: honey
Mark
one use
John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- μέλιmelinoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: honey
Revelation
two uses
And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
- μέλι.¶melinoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: honey
So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.
- μέλιmelinoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: honey
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.