ΜΕΛΑΣ, μελας
MELAS, melas
Sounds Like: MEH-las
Translations: black, dark, a black one
From the root: ΜΕΛΑΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as being black or dark in color. It can be used to describe objects, animals, or even the complexion of a person. For example, it might describe a black horse or a dark-skinned individual.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3189 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 4:9
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 1:55
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ΜΕΛΑΙΝΑΙ — black, 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
- ΜΗΛΑΝ — black, dark
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