G3196: μέλος
mélos · “member”
Definition
a limb or part of the body
KJV translates it as: member
Word origin: of uncertain affinity;
Extended definition
[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)
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?