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Koine Greek wordlink #110809

SR GNT Rom 12:4 μέλη (melaʸ) ‘one body many members we are having the and’ Strongs=31960 Lemma=melos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=neuter number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (9) of identical word form μέλη (N-ANP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μέλη’ (N-ANP) is always and only glossed as ‘members’.

Rom 6:13 ‘not be presenting the members of you_all as weapons of unrighteousness’ SR GNT Rom 6:13 word 5

OET-LV: 13 Not be _presenting the members of _you _all, as _weapons of _unrighteousness to_ the _sin, but present yourselves to_ the _god, as _if from the_dead living, and the members of _you _all, as _weapons of _righteousness to_ the _god. (ROM_6:13)

OET-RV: 13 Don’t be using any parts of your bodies to sin as if they’re weapons of disobedience, but instead present yourselves to God as if you came back to life from the dead, and use all your body parts for God as if they’re weapons of righteousness (ROM 6:13)

Rom 6:13 ‘living and the members of you_all as weapons of righteousness’ SR GNT Rom 6:13 word 24

Rom 6:19 ‘for you_all presented the members of you_all as slaves to impurity’ SR GNT Rom 6:19 word 13

OET-LV: 19 In _human terms I _am _speaking, because _of the weakness of _the flesh of _you _all. For/Because as you _all _presented the members of _you _all as _slaves to_ the _impurity, and to_ the _lawlessness further to the lawlessness, thus now present the members of _you _all, as _slaves to_ the _righteousness to holiness. (ROM_6:19)

OET-RV: 19 I’m speaking from a human perspective because of your human weakness. Just as you all previously used parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to down to further lawlessness, so now present all your body parts as slaves to righteousness leading up to holiness. (ROM 6:19)

Rom 6:19 ‘now present the members of you_all as slaves to righteousness’ SR GNT Rom 6:19 word 28

1 Cor 6:15 ‘having taken_away therefore the members of the chosen_one/messiah I may make them’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:15 word 14

OET-LV: 15 Not you _all _have _known that the bodies of _you _all members of_chosen _one /messiah is? Therefore having _taken _away the members of _the chosen _one /messiah, I _may _make them of_a_prostitute members? Never it _might _become. (CO1_6:15)

OET-RV: 15 Surely you all know that your bodies are parts of messiah’s body? Because of that, you shouldn’t take your body back and then join it to a prostitute’s body. May it never happen! (CO1 6:15)

1 Cor 6:15 ‘chosen_one/messiah I may make them of a prostitute members never it might become’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:15 word 20

1 Cor 12:12 ‘one is and members many is having all’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:12 word 8

OET-LV: 12 For/Because just _as the body one is, and members many is _having, but all the members of _the body, many being, one is body, thus also is the chosen _one /messiah. (CO1_12:12)

OET-RV: 12 Just like a human body is a unit but has many parts which are all components, no matter how many, making up that one body, so too is the messiah. (CO1 12:12)

1 Cor 12:18 ‘god appointed the members one each of them’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:18 word 9

OET-LV: 18 But right _now the god appointed the members, one each of _them in the body, as he _wanted. (CO1_12:18)

OET-RV: 18 Actually, God has placed every part in our bodies exactly where he wanted to put them. (CO1 12:18)

Col 3:5 ‘make_dead therefore your members which are on the’ SR GNT Col 3:5 word 4

OET-LV: 5 Therefore make _dead your members which are on the earth: sexual _immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greediness, which is idolatry, (COL_3:5)

OET-RV: 5 So put your earthly natures to death: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires, and greediness which is idolatry, (COL 3:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘melos’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a member’, ‘the members’, ‘member’, ‘members’.

Greek words (19) other than μέλη (N-ANP) with a gloss related to ‘members’

Have 19 other words (μέλη, μέλη, μέλη, μέλεσιν, μέλη, μέλη, μέλη, μέλη, μελῶν, μέλη, μέλεσιν, μέλη, μέλη, μέλεσιν, μέλεσιν, μέλη, μέλη, μελῶν, μέλεσιν) with 1 lemma altogether (melos)

MAT 5:29 μελῶν (melōn) N-GNP ‘may perish one of the members of you and not’ SR GNT Mat 5:29 word 24

OET-LV: 29 And if the the right eye of _you is _stumbling you, pluck_ it _out and throw it from you, because/for it _is _benefitting for _you that one of _the members of _you may _perish, and not all the body of _you may _be _thrown into geenna. (MAT_5:29)

OET-RV: 29 If your right eye is causing you to stumble, then pluck it out and throw it away, (MAT 5:29)

MAT 5:30 μελῶν (melōn) N-GNP ‘may perish one of the members of you and not’ SR GNT Mat 5:30 word 23

OET-LV: 30 And if the right hand of _you is _stumbling you, cut _off it and throw it from you, because/for it _is _benefitting for _you that one of _the members of _you may _perish, and not all the body of _you may _go _away into geenna. (MAT_5:30)

OET-RV: 30 and if your right hand is causing you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away, because it’s better for you that one of your body parts would be taken than for your whole body to end up in the judgement fire. (MAT 5:30)

ROM 7:5 μέλεσιν (melesin) N-DNP ‘was working in the members of us in_order that’ SR GNT Rom 7:5 word 18

OET-LV: 5 For/Because when we _were in the flesh, the passions of_ the _sins which through the law was _working in the members of _us in _order that to _bear _fruit to_ the _death. (ROM_7:5)

OET-RV: 5 When we were still focused on the physical, the passions aroused by sinning against the law were working in our body parts so that the fruit would be death, (ROM 7:5)

ROM 7:23 μέλεσιν (melesin) N-DNP ‘law in the members of me warring_against against the’ SR GNT Rom 7:23 word 7

OET-LV: 23 but I _am _seeing another law in the members of _me, warring _against against _the law of _the mind of _me, and making _captive me in the law of_ the _sin, which being in the members of _me. (ROM_7:23)

OET-RV: 23 but I’m observing another law inside my body parts, fighting against my mind and keeping me imprisoned in the law of sin which is in my body parts. (ROM 7:23)

ROM 7:23 μέλεσιν (melesin) N-DNP ‘being in the members of me’ SR GNT Rom 7:23 word 29

OET-RV: 23 but I’m observing another law inside my body parts, fighting against my mind and keeping me imprisoned in the law of sin which is in my body parts. (ROM 7:23)

ROM 12:4 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘we are having the and the members all not the’ SR GNT Rom 12:4 word 12

OET-LV: 4 For/Because just _as in one body, many members we _are _having, and the the_members all not the same is _having practicing, (ROM_12:4)

OET-RV: 4 Just like one body has many components and each individual component works differently, (ROM 12:4)

ROM 12:5 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘each one of one_another members’ SR GNT Rom 12:5 word 15

OET-LV: 5 thus the many, one body we _are in chosen _one /messiah, and which each one of _one _another members. (ROM_12:5)

OET-RV: 5 so too all of us are part of one body in Messiah and we’re all parts of each other. (ROM 12:5)

1 COR 6:15 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘the bodies of you_all members of chosen_one/messiah is having taken_away’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:15 word 8

1 COR 12:12 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘all but the members of the body many’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:12 word 16

OET-LV: 12 For/Because just _as the body one is, and members many is _having, but all the members of _the body, many being, one is body, thus also is the chosen _one /messiah. (CO1_12:12)

OET-RV: 12 Just like a human body is a unit but has many parts which are all components, no matter how many, making up that one body, so too is the messiah. (CO1 12:12)

1 COR 12:20 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘but many on_one_hand members one on_the_other_hand body’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:20 word 5

OET-LV: 20 But now many on _one _hand one, on _the _other _hand members body. (CO1_12:20)

OET-RV: 20 Yes, there’s many parts, but only one body. (CO1 12:20)

1 COR 12:22 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘rather the supposing members of the body weaker’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:22 word 6

OET-LV: 22 But by _much rather the supposing members of _the body weaker to _be _being, necessary is, (CO1_12:22)

OET-RV: 22 On the contrary, the body parts that seem to be weaker are very vital, (CO1 12:22)

1 COR 12:25 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘one_another may_be caring_for the members’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:25 word 16

OET-LV: 25 in _order _that not there _may _be division in the body, but the same for one _another may _be _caring _for the members. (CO1_12:25)

OET-RV: 25 so that there won’t be any division in the body, but its members should care equally for each other. (CO1 12:25)

1 COR 12:26 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘is suffering_with it all the members or is_being glorified a member’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:26 word 13

OET-LV: 26 And whether is _suffering one member, is _suffering _with it all the members, or is _being _glorified a_member, is _rejoicing _with it all the members. (CO1_12:26)

OET-RV: 26 So if one body part is hurting, all the parts hurt as well. If one body part is honoured, then all the parts are happy together. (CO1 12:26)

1 COR 12:26 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘is rejoicing_with it all the members’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:26 word 21

OET-LV: 26 And whether is _suffering one member, is _suffering _with it all the members, or is _being _glorified a_member, is _rejoicing _with it all the members. (CO1_12:26)

OET-RV: 26 So if one body part is hurting, all the parts hurt as well. If one body part is honoured, then all the parts are happy together. (CO1 12:26)

1 COR 12:27 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘the body of chosen_one/messiah and members of part’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:27 word 7

OET-LV: 27 And you _all are the_body of_chosen _one /messiah, and members of part. (CO1_12:27)

OET-RV: 27 Now you all are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it. (CO1 12:27)

EPH 4:25 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘because we are of one_another members’ SR GNT Eph 4:25 word 19

OET-LV: 25 Therefore having _put _away the falsehood: each be _speaking the_truth with the one near him, because we _are members of _one _another. (EPH_4:25)

OET-RV: 25 So steer clear of lies—always speak the truth to those around you because we are members of each other. (EPH 4:25)

EPH 5:30 μέλη (melaʸ) N-NNP ‘because members we are of the body’ SR GNT Eph 5:30 word 2

OET-LV: 30 because we _are members of _the body of _him. (EPH_5:30)

OET-RV: 30 and we are parts of his body. (EPH 5:30)

YAC 3:6 μέλεσιν (melesin) N-DNP ‘is_being set_down among the members of us staining all’ SR GNT Yac 3:6 word 16

OET-LV: 6 And the tongue is a_fire, the world of_ the _unrighteousness, the tongue is _being _set _down among the members of _us, which staining all the body, and setting _on _fire the course of_ the _existence, and being _set _on _fire by the geenna. (JAM_3:6)

OET-RV: 6 and the tongue is a fire producing a torrent of depravity. It’s a part of our physical body but capable of staining us all over and setting our worlds on fire, because the tongue itself is set on fire from hell. (JAM 3:6)

YAC 4:1 μέλεσιν (melesin) N-DNP ‘warring in the members of you_all’ SR GNT Yac 4:1 word 20

OET-LV: 4 From _where wars and from _where quarrels among you _all are? Not is _it from _here from the gratifications of _you _all, which warring in the members of _you _all? (JAM_4:1)

OET-RV: 4 Where do you imagine that the fights and quarrels among you all originate? Isn’t it because of the ambitions that surface inside you? (JAM 4:1)

Key: N=noun ANP=accusative,neuter,plural DNP=dative,neuter,plural GNP=genitive,neuter,plural NNP=nominative,neuter,plural