Strong's Greek Concordance

G3196: μέλος

mélos · “member”

Definition

a limb or part of the body

KJV translates it as: member

Word origin: of uncertain affinity;

Extended 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.†
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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).

How G3196 is translated

  • members ×20
  • members. ×3
  • member, ×3
  • member ×2
  • members; ×2
  • the members ×1
  • members? ×1
  • members, ×1
  • are the members, ×1

Bible verses with G3196 (mélos)

Mélos appears in 24 verses.

  • Matthew 5:29

    And 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 5:30

    And 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 6:13

    Neither 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 6:19

    I 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 7:5

    For 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 7:23

    But 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 12:4

    For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

  • Romans 12:5

    So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:15

    Know 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 12:12

    For 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 12:14

    For the body is not one member, but many.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:18

    But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:19

    And if they were all one member, where were the body?

  • 1 Corinthians 12:20

    But now are they many members, yet but one body.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:22

    Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

  • 1 Corinthians 12:25

    That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:26

    And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:27

    Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

  • Ephesians 4:25

    Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

  • Ephesians 5:30

    For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

  • Colossians 3:5

    Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

  • James 3:5

    Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

  • James 3:6

    And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

  • James 4:1

    From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?