Word

μέλος

mélos · G3196 · Greek · 34 occurrences

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Meanings

body part, member

A part of the body

Examples
Matthew 5:29 “Now if your right eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:30 “And if your right hand is causing you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
Romans 6:13 and do not go on presenting the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body’s parts as instruments of righteousness for God.
A part as a member of a unit (member (based on the figure of the relationship of parts to the body))

Examples
Romans 12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually parts of one another.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ? Shall I then take away the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Far from it!
1 Corinthians 12:25 so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same care for one another.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

19 occurrences in 6 groups

σύyou 7
ἐγώI, we 4
σῶμαbody 3
ἀλλήλωνeach other, one another 2
ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 2
πόρνηprostitute 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

7 occurrences in 4 groups

εἷςone 3
πολύςmany 2
δοκέωto think, to suppose, to seem 1
μικρόςsmall, little 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 7 groups

γῆearth 1
ἀκαθαρσίαimpurity 1
ἐπιθυμίαdesire, lust 1
πάθοςpassion 1
πλεονεξίαgreed 1
πορνείαsexual immorality, fornication 1

What it doesIt is the subject

8 occurrences in 7 groups

ἀπόλλυμιto destroy, to perish, to lose 2
δοξάζωto glorify, to praise 1
ἔχωto have 1
μεριμνάωto be worried about 1
πάσχωto suffer 1
συγχαίρωto enjoy with 1

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 6 groups

παρίστημιto stand by, to present 3
ἔχωto have 2
αἴρωto take up, to take away, to carry 1
νεκρόωto stop completely 1
ποιέωto do, to make 1
τίθημιto put 1

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἀναγκαῖοςnecessary 1
πολύςmany 1
σῶμαbody 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

5 occurrences in 5 groups

γλῶσσαtongue, language 1
εἷςone 1
πᾶςall, every, each 1
σύyou 1
σῶμαbody 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνin 9

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

נֵתַח nêthach · H5409 · piece: נֵתַח (nêthach, H5409) denotes a severed piece or portion, typically of sacrificial meat in ritual contexts, while μέλος (mélos, G3196) refers to a bodily limb or member as part of a living organism; the LXX uses μέλος to render נֵתַח when translating sacrificial portions as 'parts' of the animal body.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Member (based on the figure of the relationship of parts to the body)63.17: This sense uses the body's members figuratively for individual believers within the church. 1 Corinthians 12:12 states, “the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body.”
Body part, member8.9: This sense denotes a literal bodily part or limb. Matthew 5:29 states that “it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μελους, τό (from Homer down), a member, limb: properly, a member of the human body, Rom…

μελους, τό (from Homer down), a member, limb: properly, a member of the human body, Rom 12:4; 1 Cor 12:12, 1 Cor 12:14, 1 Cor 12:18-20, 1 Cor 12:25; Jas 3:5; τά μελα τοῦ σώματος, 1 Cor 12:12, 1 Cor 12:22; μου, σου, ἡμῶν, ὑμῶν, Mt 5:29; Rom 6:13, Rom 6:19; Rom 7:5, Rom 7:23; Col 3:5; Jas 3:6; Jas 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 Cor 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: Rom 12:5; Eph 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 Cor 12:27; Eph 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 Cor 6:15.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Parts of the Body22 occurrences Part13 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0