UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: honey

Semantic entry: 5.20

Semantic domains: Foods and Condiments

Subdomains: Food

Definition: a sweet substance produced by bees from flower nectar

Notes: Though honey may be regarded by some as a vegetable product, since flowers constitute its source, it is more specifically associated with bees and in some languages is actually called bee urine.|μέλι ἄγριον, literally ‘wild honey,’ refers to bee honey gathered in the fields and not the result of keeping bees in hives.|In the ancient world bee keeping was a highly developed industry, since honey was a principal source of sweetening. The equivalent of wild honey in a number of languages is ‘forest honey’ or ‘tree honey.’