ΜΕΛΑΙΝΑΙ, μελαιναι
MELAINAI, melainai
Sounds Like: meh-LAI-nai
Translations: black, dark
From the root: ΜΕΛΑΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'black' or 'dark'. It is used to describe the color black or a state of darkness. As an adjective, it modifies nouns, agreeing with them in gender, number, and case. This specific form is the feminine nominative or vocative plural.
Inflection: Plural, Feminine, Nominative or Vocative
Strong’s number: G3189 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 11:240
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΛΑΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΕΛΑΙΝΑ — black, dark, a black, a dark
- ΜΕΛΑΙΝΑΝ — black, a black, dark, a dark
- ΜΕΛΑΙΝΑΣ — black, dark
- ΜΕΛΑΙΝΗ — black, dark, a black, a dark
- ΜΕΛΑΝΑ — black, dark
- ΜΕΛΑΝΑΣ — black, black ones
- ΜΕΛΑΝΕΣ — black, dark
- ΜΕΛΑΝΙ — ink, black, a black thing, blackness, (to) black, (to) ink
- ΜΕΛΑΝΟΣ — of black, of dark, of ink
- ΜΕΛΑΝΤΕΡΟΝ — blacker, darker
- ΜΕΛΑΝΩΝ — of black, of black ones
- ΜΕΛΑΝΩΤΕΡΑΙ — darker, blacker
- ΜΕΛΑΟΣ — of black, of dark, of a black, of a dark
- ΜΕΛΑΣ — black, dark, a black one
- ΜΗΛΑΝ — black, dark
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