ΜΗΛΑΝ, μηλαν
MĒLAN, mēlan
Sounds Like: MAY-lan
Translations: black, dark
From the root: ΜΕΛΑΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as being black or dark in color. It is used to qualify nouns, indicating their hue.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine or Feminine; or Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3189 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 10:328
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
- ΜΕΛΑΣ — black, dark, a black one
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