3196. melos
Strong's Concordance
melos: a member or limb (of the body)
Original Word: μέλος, ους, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: melos
Phonetic Spelling: (mel'-os)
Definition: a member or limb (of the body)
Usage: a bodily organ, limb, member.
HELPS Word-studies

3196 mélos – properly, a member (part) belonging to the whole; (figuratively) any function of human personality, such as "sanctified imagination" (Ro 6:13; Col 3:5; Js 4:1). 3196 (mélos) also specifically refers to believers as part (members) of Christ's mystical body (Eph 5:30).

[3196 (mélos) was used in antiquity of instruments of war and implements ("working parts") of a ship. Paul used it in relation to the various functions of human personality.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
a member or limb (of the body)
NASB Translation
member (4), members (27), part (1), parts (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3196: μέλος

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. 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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
member.

Of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body -- member.

Forms and Transliterations
μέλει μέλεσί μελεσιν μέλεσιν μέλεσίν μελη μέλη μελος μέλος μελων μελών μελῶν mele melē méle mélē melesin mélesin mélesín melon melôn melōn melō̂n melos mélos
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Matthew 5:29 N-GNP
GRK: ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου καὶ
NAS: one of the parts of your body, than
KJV: one of thy members should perish, and
INT: one of the members of you and

Matthew 5:30 N-GNP
GRK: ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου καὶ
NAS: for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than
KJV: one of thy members should perish, and
INT: one of the members of you and

Romans 6:13 N-ANP
GRK: παριστάνετε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν ὅπλα
NAS: and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin
KJV: your members [as] instruments
INT: be yielding the members of you instruments

Romans 6:13 N-ANP
GRK: καὶ τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν ὅπλα
NAS: from the dead, and your members [as] instruments
KJV: your members [as] instruments
INT: and the members of you instruments

Romans 6:19 N-ANP
GRK: παρεστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα
NAS: as you presented your members as slaves
KJV: your members servants
INT: you yielded the members of you in bondage

Romans 6:19 N-ANP
GRK: παραστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα
NAS: present your members as slaves
KJV: your members servants
INT: yield the members of you in bondage

Romans 7:5 N-DNP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ἡμῶν εἰς
NAS: were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit
KJV: in our members to bring forth fruit
INT: in the members of us to

Romans 7:23 N-DNP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς μέλεσίν μου ἀντιστρατευόμενον
NAS: law in the members of my body, waging war against
KJV: in my members, warring against the law
INT: in the members of me warring against

Romans 7:23 N-DNP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς μέλεσίν μου
NAS: of sin which is in my members.
KJV: in my members.
INT: in the members of me

Romans 12:4 N-ANP
GRK: σώματι πολλὰ μέλη ἔχομεν τὰ
NAS: as we have many members in one body
KJV: we have many members in one
INT: body many members we have

Romans 12:4 N-NNP
GRK: τὰ δὲ μέλη πάντα οὐ
NAS: and all the members do not have
KJV: and all members have not
INT: and [the] members all not

Romans 12:5 N-NNP
GRK: εἷς ἀλλήλων μέλη
NAS: and individually members one
KJV: every one members one of another.
INT: one of each other members

1 Corinthians 6:15 N-NNP
GRK: σώματα ὑμῶν μέλη Χριστοῦ ἐστίν
NAS: that your bodies are members of Christ?
KJV: are the members of Christ?
INT: bodies of you members of Christ are

1 Corinthians 6:15 N-ANP
GRK: οὖν τὰ μέλη τοῦ χριστοῦ
NAS: take away the members of Christ
KJV: take the members of Christ,
INT: then the members of the Christ

1 Corinthians 6:15 N-ANP
GRK: ποιήσω πόρνης μέλη μὴ γένοιτο
NAS: and make them members of a prostitute?
KJV: and make [them] the members of an harlot?
INT: shall I make [them] of a prostitute members never may it be

1 Corinthians 12:12 N-ANP
GRK: ἐστιν καὶ μέλη πολλὰ ἔχει
NAS: many members, and all
KJV: hath many members, and all
INT: is and members many has

1 Corinthians 12:12 N-NNP
GRK: δὲ τὰ μέλη τοῦ σώματος
NAS: and all the members of the body,
KJV: and all the members of that one body,
INT: moreover the members of the body

1 Corinthians 12:14 N-NNS
GRK: ἔστιν ἓν μέλος ἀλλὰ πολλά
NAS: is not one member, but many.
KJV: not one member, but many.
INT: is one member but many

1 Corinthians 12:18 N-ANP
GRK: ἔθετο τὰ μέλη ἓν ἕκαστον
NAS: God has placed the members, each one
KJV: God set the members every one
INT: set the members one each

1 Corinthians 12:19 N-NNS
GRK: πάντα ἓν μέλος ποῦ τὸ
NAS: one member, where
KJV: all one member, where [were] the body?
INT: all one member where the

1 Corinthians 12:20 N-NNP
GRK: πολλὰ μὲν μέλη ἓν δὲ
NAS: there are many members, but one
KJV: [are they] many members, yet but
INT: many even [are the] members one however

1 Corinthians 12:22 N-NNP
GRK: τὰ δοκοῦντα μέλη τοῦ σώματος
NAS: truer that the members of the body
KJV: more those members of the body,
INT: the which seem members of the body

1 Corinthians 12:25 N-NNP
GRK: μεριμνῶσιν τὰ μέλη
NAS: in the body, but [that] the members may have
KJV: but [that] the members should have
INT: might have concern the members

1 Corinthians 12:26 N-NNS
GRK: πάσχει ἓν μέλος συμπάσχει πάντα
NAS: And if one member suffers, all
KJV: whether one member suffer, all
INT: suffers one member suffers with [it] all

1 Corinthians 12:26 N-NNP
GRK: πάντα τὰ μέλη εἴτε δοξάζεται
NAS: all the members suffer
KJV: all the members suffer with it;
INT: all the members if be glorified

Strong's Greek 3196
34 Occurrences


μέλη — 22 Occ.
μέλεσιν — 5 Occ.
μελῶν — 2 Occ.
μέλος — 5 Occ.

















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