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Koine Greek wordlink #154442

← μελανός ↑ → 2 Yhn (2 Yohan or 2 Jhn) 1 ║ ═

SR GNT 2 Yhn 1:12 μελανός (melanos) ‘through paper and ink but I am hoping to become’ Strongs=31890 Lemma=melas
Word role=substantive adjective case=genitive gender=neuter number=singular
Year=90 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form μελανός (S-GNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μελανός’ (S-GNS) is always and only glossed as ‘ink’.

3 Yhn (3 Yohan or 3 Jhn) 1:13 ‘not I am wanting through ink and pen to you’ SR GNT 3 Yhn (3 Yohan or 3 Jhn) 1:13 word 11

OET-LV: 13 Many things I _was _having to _write to _you, but not I _am _wanting through ink and pen to _you to _be _writing, (JN3_1:13)

OET-RV: 13 I had many things I wanted to write about, but won’t do it by means of ink and pen, (JN3 1:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘melas’ have 3 different glosses: ‘in ink’, ‘black’, ‘ink’.

Greek words (1) other than μελανός (S-GNS) with a gloss related to ‘ink’

2 COR 3:3 μέλανι (melani) S-DNS ‘us having_been inscribed not in ink but with the spirit of god’ SR GNT 2 Cor 3:3 word 12

OET-LV: 3 being _revealed that you _all _are a_letter of_chosen _one /messiah, having _been _served by us, having _been _inscribed not in _ink, but with_the_spirit of_god the_living, not on tablets stone, but on tablets of _hearts fleshy. (CO2_3:3)

OET-RV: 3 It shows that you who were served by us, are now Messiah’s letter that wasn’t written with ink but with God’s living spirit—not written on stone tablets but on people’s hearts. (CO2 3:3)

Key: S=substantive adjective DNS=dative,neuter,singular GNS=genitive,neuter,singular