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μεμβράνα

membrána · G3200 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. parchment

    A sheet of specially prepared animal skin on which one could write with pen and ink, or books or scrolls made of such skin

    Examples

    2 Timothy 4:13 When you come, bring the overcoat which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.

  2. parchment, books made of parchment

    Books or scrolls made of parchment

    Examples

    2 Timothy 4:13 When you come, bring the overcoat which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.

How it’s used

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

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In the other Testament 1 word
עוֹר ʻôwr · H5785 · skin, hide, leather
Hebrew term for animal skin/hide used for writing material, the standard equivalent for parchment in Hebrew contexts
Semantic domains 2 entries
Parchment, books made of parchment6.59
This sense denotes parchment as a writing material. 2 Timothy 4:13 asks for “the books, especially the parchments.”
Books (or scrolls) made of parchment6.66
This sense denotes the finished parchment scrolls or books themselves. 2 Timothy 4:13 requests “the books, especially the parchments,” left at Troas.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Sophocles' Lexicon, μεμβράνα; cf. Chandler § 136), μεμβράνας (Buttmann, 17 (15)), ἡ,…
(Sophocles' Lexicon, μεμβράνα; cf. Chandler § 136), μεμβράνας (Buttmann, 17 (15)), ἡ, Latinmembrana, i. e. parchment, first made of dressed skins at Pergamum, whence its name: 2 Tim 4:13 (Act. Barnabas, 6 at the end Cf. Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, chapter ii.; Gardthausen, Palacographie, p. 39f).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Instruments Used in Marking and Writing2 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

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