noun · neuter
makellem
Strong’sG3111
a meat-market
stem makell-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† μάκελλον, -ου, τό (Lat. macellum),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3111 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmak'-el-lon
a butcher's stall, meat market or provision-shop
Fromof Latin origin (macellum);
King Jamesshambles.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
enclosure, Refs 4th c.BC+:— also μάκελλος, ὁ, Refs 5th c.BC+; μάκελος, ὁ, and plural μακέλα, μάκελλα, Refs 5th c.AD+
II μάκελλος, ὁ, = Latin macellum, market, NT+1st c.BC+:—hence μακελλάριος, ὁ, = Latin macellarius, Refs 5th c.BC+; = laniator, lanio, Refs: neuter μακελλάριον, τό, Refs 6th c.AD+.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | makellem | makelleim |
| of, belonging to genitive | makelleu | makelleiu |
| to, for dative | makelle1×μακέλλῳ | makellei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
makelle is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
makelle“meat market”to, fordative singular1×
1 Corinthians 10:25pantem tem en makelle pōlorōntem esthiavōr mēdenem anakrinarōntois dia tan …Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,