noun · neuter
melanem
Strong’sG3188
ink
stem melan-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
μέλαν, τό, v.s. μέλας.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3188 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmel'-an
ink
Fromneuter of G3189 as noun;
King Jamesink.
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
(neuter of μέλας) ink, Refs 5th c.BC+; used of a drawing material capable of erasure, Refs 5th c.AD+
2 μ. Ἰνδικόν indigo, Refs
II iris of the eye, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.b cornea, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 = {αἰδοῖον}, τὸ μ. τῷ μ. συναρμόσαι Refs
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 | melanem | melaneim |
| of, belonging to genitive | melaneu2×μέλανος | melaneiu |
| to, for dative | melane1×μέλανι | melanei |
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
melane 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
melaneu“ink”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
2 John 1:12… grafarō ouk boulima dia chartou kai melaneu, alla elpizamō genera pros vin kai …… to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come and …
3 John 1:13… grafara si, alla ouk thelamō dia melaneu kai kalamou si grafarō;… to do so with pen and ink.
melane“ink”to, fordative singular1×
2 Corinthians 3:3… Christou diakonirantas hupo nu, engraforēntas ouk melane alla pneume theou zōarōntou, ouk en …… of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the …