Strong G3196μέλος
member
- Transliteration
- melos
- Pronunciation
- mel'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
Of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body: - member.
Detailed definition
μέλος, -ους, τό
[in LXX chiefly for נֵתַח;]
a member, limb of the body: 1Co.12:14 12:19 12:26 Eph.4:16 (WH, mg.), Jas.3:5; pl. (as always in cl.), τὰ μ.: Mat.5:29-30, Rom.6:13, 19 7:5, 23 12:4, 1Co.12:12 ff, Col.3:5, Jas.3:6 4:1. Metaphorical, πόρνης, 1Co.6:15; of Christians, μ. ἀλλήλων, Rom.12:5, Eph.4:25; Χριστοῦ, 1Co.6:15; σώματος Χριστοῦ, 1Co.12:27, Eph.5:30.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for נֵתַח;]
a member, limb of the body: 1Co.12:14 12:19 12:26 Eph.4:16 (WH, mg.), Jas.3:5; pl. (as always in cl.), τὰ μ.: Mat.5:29-30, Rom.6:13, 19 7:5, 23 12:4, 1Co.12:12 ff, Col.3:5, Jas.3:6 4:1. Metaphorical, πόρνης, 1Co.6:15; of Christians, μ. ἀλλήλων, Rom.12:5, Eph.4:25; Χριστοῦ, 1Co.6:15; σώματος Χριστοῦ, 1Co.12:27, Eph.5:30.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3196 appears in 24 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- member24
- of2
First verses
- Matthew 5:29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Matthew 5:30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Romans 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
- Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
- Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
- Romans 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
- Romans 12:4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
- Romans 12:5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
- 1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 12:14For the body is not one member, but many.
- 1 Corinthians 12:18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
- 1 Corinthians 12:19And if they were all one member, where were the body?
- 1 Corinthians 12:20But now are they many members, yet but one body.
- 1 Corinthians 12:22Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
- 1 Corinthians 12:25That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
- 1 Corinthians 12:26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
- 1 Corinthians 12:27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
- Ephesians 4:25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
- Ephesians 5:30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Occurrences by book
Detailed Greek dictionary
μέλος, εος, τό,
limb, in early writers always in plural, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.131, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.47, etc. (κατὰ μέλος is corrupt for κατὰ μέρος in “hymnus ad Mercurium” 419))]; μελέων ἔντοσθε within my bodily frame, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 991 (Lyric poetry), compare “Eu.” 265 (Lyric poetry))]; κατὰ μέλη (-εα) limb by limb, like{μελεϊστί}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.49, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.119; τὰ τοῦ σώματος μέλη καὶ μέρη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 795e)]; μέλη ποιεῖν dismember, [LXX (LXX.2Mac.1.16)]: later in singular, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.141, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 12.3, +others; ἡ κατὰ μέλος τομή 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.1.30.)]
2 metaphorically, ἐσμὲν.. ἀλλήλων μέλη [NT (NT.Rom.12.5, cf. NT.1Cor.6.15.)]
3 features, form, οὐκέτ᾽ ἐγὼ.. γονέων μ. ὄψομαι [Refs (“BMus.Inscription” 1077 (from Sudan).)]
B especially musical member, phrase: hence, song, strain, first in [Refs (“Hymni Homerici” 19.16 (_plural_))], of the nightingale (the [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus word being μολπή),compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 761, etc.; μέλη βοῶν ἄναυλα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 699)]; especially of lyric poetry, τὸ Ἀρχιλόχου μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.1)]; ἐν μέλεϊ ποιέειν to write in lyric strain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.95, compare 2.135; ἐν μέλει ἤ τινι ἄλλῳ μέτρῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607d, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 11; Ἀδμήτου μ. 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 236)]; μέλη, τά, lyric poetry, choral songs, opposed to Epic or Dramatic verse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 379a, 607a, +others; [μ.] ἐκ τριῶν συγκείμενον, λόγου τε καὶ ἁρμονίας καὶ ῥυθμοῦ [prev. work] 398d.)]
B.b lyric portion of the Comic παράβασις, [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Poëm.” 8.2.)]
B.2 music to which a song is set, tune, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1450a14)]; opposed to ῥυθμός, μέτρον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 502c)]; opposed to ῥυθμός, ῥῆμα, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 656c)]; Κρητικόν, Καρικόν, Ἰωνικὸν μ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 222, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.12, 14: _metaphorically_, ἐν μέλει)] properly, correctly, ἐν μ. φθέγγεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 227d)]; παρὰ μέλος incorrectly, inopportunely, πὰρ μ. ἔρχομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.69; παρὰ μ. φθέγξασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 28b, “Lg.” 696d; παρὰ μέλος λαμπρύνεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1123a22, compare “EE” 1233a39.)]
B.3 melody of an instrument, φόρμιγξ δ᾽ αὖ φθέγγοιθ᾽ ἱερὸν μ. ἠδὲ καὶ αὐλός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 761; αὐλῶν πάμφωνον μ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 12.19; πηκτίδων μέλη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 241)]: generally, tone, μ. βοῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 756. [In “hymnus ad Mercurium” 502 θεὸς δ᾽ ὑπὸ καλὸν ἄεισεν must be read for θεὸς δ᾽ ὑπὸ μέλος ἄεισεν, and Ἕλλησιν δ᾽ ᾄδων μέλεα καὶ ἐλέγους)] is corrupt in epigram cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.7.6.])]
limb, in early writers always in plural, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.131, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.47, etc. (κατὰ μέλος is corrupt for κατὰ μέρος in “hymnus ad Mercurium” 419))]; μελέων ἔντοσθε within my bodily frame, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 991 (Lyric poetry), compare “Eu.” 265 (Lyric poetry))]; κατὰ μέλη (-εα) limb by limb, like{μελεϊστί}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.49, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.119; τὰ τοῦ σώματος μέλη καὶ μέρη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 795e)]; μέλη ποιεῖν dismember, [LXX (LXX.2Mac.1.16)]: later in singular, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.141, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 12.3, +others; ἡ κατὰ μέλος τομή 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.1.30.)]
2 metaphorically, ἐσμὲν.. ἀλλήλων μέλη [NT (NT.Rom.12.5, cf. NT.1Cor.6.15.)]
3 features, form, οὐκέτ᾽ ἐγὼ.. γονέων μ. ὄψομαι [Refs (“BMus.Inscription” 1077 (from Sudan).)]
B especially musical member, phrase: hence, song, strain, first in [Refs (“Hymni Homerici” 19.16 (_plural_))], of the nightingale (the [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus word being μολπή),compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 761, etc.; μέλη βοῶν ἄναυλα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 699)]; especially of lyric poetry, τὸ Ἀρχιλόχου μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.1)]; ἐν μέλεϊ ποιέειν to write in lyric strain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.95, compare 2.135; ἐν μέλει ἤ τινι ἄλλῳ μέτρῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607d, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 11; Ἀδμήτου μ. 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 236)]; μέλη, τά, lyric poetry, choral songs, opposed to Epic or Dramatic verse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 379a, 607a, +others; [μ.] ἐκ τριῶν συγκείμενον, λόγου τε καὶ ἁρμονίας καὶ ῥυθμοῦ [prev. work] 398d.)]
B.b lyric portion of the Comic παράβασις, [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Poëm.” 8.2.)]
B.2 music to which a song is set, tune, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1450a14)]; opposed to ῥυθμός, μέτρον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 502c)]; opposed to ῥυθμός, ῥῆμα, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 656c)]; Κρητικόν, Καρικόν, Ἰωνικὸν μ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 222, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.12, 14: _metaphorically_, ἐν μέλει)] properly, correctly, ἐν μ. φθέγγεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 227d)]; παρὰ μέλος incorrectly, inopportunely, πὰρ μ. ἔρχομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.69; παρὰ μ. φθέγξασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 28b, “Lg.” 696d; παρὰ μέλος λαμπρύνεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1123a22, compare “EE” 1233a39.)]
B.3 melody of an instrument, φόρμιγξ δ᾽ αὖ φθέγγοιθ᾽ ἱερὸν μ. ἠδὲ καὶ αὐλός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 761; αὐλῶν πάμφωνον μ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 12.19; πηκτίδων μέλη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 241)]: generally, tone, μ. βοῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 756. [In “hymnus ad Mercurium” 502 θεὸς δ᾽ ὑπὸ καλὸν ἄεισεν must be read for θεὸς δ᾽ ὑπὸ μέλος ἄεισεν, and Ἕλλησιν δ᾽ ᾄδων μέλεα καὶ ἐλέγους)] is corrupt in epigram cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.7.6.])]