Greek noun (neuter) · G3196
μέλος
melosmel'-os
member
34 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mélos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3196is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3196
a limb or part of the body
The King James renders it: member.
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
melos is rendered "member". It stands 34 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:29μελῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Sixteen of the word's thirty-four uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- members28
- member5
- the members1
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.
All 34, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- μέλη20
- μέλος5
- μέλεσιν3
- μέλεσίν2
- μέλη.¶2
- μελῶν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural12N-NPN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural10N-APN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural5N-DPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular5N-NSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural2N-GPN
Matthew
two uses
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- μελῶνmelonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: members
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.
- μελῶνmelonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: members
Romans
ten uses
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
- μέλεσινmelesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: members
But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
- μέλεσίνmelesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέλεσίνmelesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: members
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: the members
so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
- μέλη.¶melenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
1 Corinthians
sixteen uses
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.
- μέλοςmelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: member
But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
If they were all one part, where would the body be?
- μέλοςmelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: member
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
- μέλοςmelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: member
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
- μέλοςmelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: member
- μέλη.¶melenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
Ephesians
two uses
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
For we are members of His body.
- μέληmelenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: members
Colossians
one use
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- μέληmelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: members
James
three uses
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- μέλοςmelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: member
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
- μέλεσινmelesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: members
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
- μέλεσινmelesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: members
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.