melos · member, part

What it means

melos (μέλος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “member, part”.

Member, limb, a part of the body; figuratively, each person as a part of a whole.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A part of the body.
2. Each believer, as part of the Messiah's body.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• members ×29
• member ×5

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Romans×10
• 1 Corinthians×16
• Ephesians×2
• Colossians×1
• James×3

• Matthew 5:29

  And if your right eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you that one of your members perish and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.

• Matthew 5:30

  And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you; for it is better for you that one of your members perish and not your whole body go off into Gehenna.

• Romans 6:13

  and do not present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God.

• Romans 6:19

  I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity for iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

• Romans 7:5

  For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

• Romans 7:23

  but I see another law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

• Romans 12:4

  For just as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,

• Romans 12:5

  so we, the many, are one body in the Messiah, and individually members of one another.

• 1 Corinthians 6:15

  Do you not know that your bodies are members of the Messiah? Shall I then take the members of the Messiah and make them members of a prostitute? By no means!

• 1 Corinthians 12:12

  For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 12:14

  For indeed the body is not one member but many.

• 1 Corinthians 12:18

  But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted.

• 1 Corinthians 12:19

  And if all were one member, where would the body be?

• 1 Corinthians 12:20

  But now there are many members, but one body.

• 1 Corinthians 12:22

  On the contrary, much more the members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary,

• 1 Corinthians 12:25

  so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may care equally for one another.

• 1 Corinthians 12:26

  And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if a member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

• 1 Corinthians 12:27

  Now you are the body of the Messiah and members individually.

• Ephesians 4:25

  Therefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth, each one with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

• Ephesians 5:30

  because we are members of his body.

• Colossians 3:5

  So put to death the members that are on the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry;

• James 3:5

  So also the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things. See how great a forest so small a fire sets ablaze.

• James 3:6

  And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of existence, and is itself set on fire by Gehenna.

• James 4:1

  From where come wars and from where fights among you? Is it not from here, from your pleasures that wage war in your members?

And 10 more times.