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μέλος

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
μέλος, -ους, τό
Greek transliteration: 
melos
Simplified transliteration: 
melos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
3196
GK Number: 
3517
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
34
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-3d(2b)
Gloss: 
part, member, limb
Definition: 
a member, limb, any part of the body, Mt. 5:29, 30; Rom. 12:4; 1 Cor. 6:15; 12:12

Greek-English Concordance for μέλος

Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away for it is better for you to lose a part (melōn | μελῶν | gen pl neut) of your body (melōn | μελῶν | gen pl neut) than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away for it is better for you to lose a part (melōn | μελῶν | gen pl neut) of your body (melōn | μελῶν | gen pl neut) than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
Romans 6:13 Do not continue to present your members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) to God as instruments for righteousness.
Romans 6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations.) For just as you presented your members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.
Romans 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our bodies (melesin | μέλεσιν | dat pl neut) to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:23 but I see a different law in my members (melesin | μέλεσιν | dat pl neut); it wages war against the law of my mind and makes me captive to the law of sin dwelling in my members (melesin | μέλεσιν | dat pl neut).
Romans 12:4 For as in our one body we have many members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut), and the members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) do not all have the same function,
Romans 12:5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) who belong to one another,
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) of Christ? Shall I then take the members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) of Christ and make them members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) of a prostitute? Never!
1 Corinthians 12:12 For just as the physical body is one yet has many members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut), and all the members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) of the body, though many, are one body, so also is the body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:14 For indeed the body is not a single member (melos | μέλος | nom sg neut), but many.
1 Corinthians 12:18 But as it is, God arranged the members (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) in the body, every one of them, just as he chose.
1 Corinthians 12:19 If they were all a single member (melos | μέλος | nom sg neut), where would the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:20 But as it is, there are many members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut), but one body.
1 Corinthians 12:22 Quite the contrary, those members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1 Corinthians 12:25 so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) would have the same care for one another.
1 Corinthians 12:26 And if one member (melos | μέλος | nom sg neut) suffers, every member (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) suffers with it; if one member (melos | μέλος | nom sg neut) is honored, every member (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) rejoices with it.
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are Christ’s body and each of you is a member (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) of it.
Ephesians 4:25 Therefore put off falsehood and let each one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) of one another.
Ephesians 5:30 since we are members (melē | μέλη | nom pl neut) of his body.
Colossians 3:5 Therefore put to death Therefore whatever (melē | μέλη | acc pl neut) is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, evil and covetousness, which is idolatry.
James 3:5 So also is the tongue a small member (melos | μέλος | nom sg neut), yet it boasts of great things. See how large a forest is set on fire by such a small flame.
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue is a world of iniquity among our members (melesin | μέλεσιν | dat pl neut); it defiles the whole body, sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.
James 4:1 What accounts for the quarrels and disputes among you? Is it not this — your desires that are at war in your members (melesin | μέλεσιν | dat pl neut)?