melanos

Strong’sG3189

black

stem melan-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 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.

μέλας, -αινα, -αν, gen., -ανος, -αίνης, -ανος,

[in LXX: Ca 1:5, Za 6:2 (שָׁחֹר), etc.;]

black: Re 6:5, 12; opp. to λευκός, Mt 5:36; neut., τὸ μ., ink: II Co 3:3, II Jo 12, III Jo 13.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3189 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmel'-as

black

Fromapparently a primary word;

King Jamesblack.

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

μέλᾱς
(μέλᾰς Refs 3rd c.BC+; genitive μέλᾰνος, μελαίνης, μέλᾰνος, etc.; Epic dialect dative μείλανι (for the sake of meter) Refs 8th c.BC+: Aeolic dialect nominative μέλαις, from *μέλανς, Refs 7th c.BC+:—black, dark: in Refs 8th c.BC+ generally, dark in colour, οἶνος Refs 8th c.BC+; μέλαν αἷμα, κῦμα, Refs 8th c.BC+, from its being pitched over, Refs 8th c.BC+; of men, dark, swarthy, μέλανας δὲ ἀνδρικοὺς ἰδεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ μ. black marks about the ears of dogs, Refs 5th c.BC+
II dark, murky, ἕσπερος Refs 8th c.BC+
III metaphorically, black, dark, θάνατος Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀδύναι Refs; μ. τύχα, ἀρά, Refs 4th c.BC+; Ἅιδης Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡμέραι μέλαιναι, = Latin dies atri, Refs 1st c.AD+
III.2 of the voice, indistinct, Refs 4th c.BC+; βραχὺ καὶ μ. φώνημα, of Nero, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III.3 dark, obscure, enigmatical, ἱστορίη Refs 1st c.AD+
III.4 of character, dark, malignant, μ. φρήν, καρδία, Refs 6th c.BC+; μ. ἦθος M. Ant.4.28.
IV comparative μελάντερος, α, ον, blacker, very black, τοῦ δ᾽ οὔ τι μελάντερον ἔπλετο ἔσθος Refs 8th c.BC+: superlative μελάντατος Refs 5th c.BC+:— comparative also μελανώτερος Refs 1st c.BC+: superlative μελαινότατος Refs 1st c.AD+
V μέλαινα (i.e. νοῦσος), ἡ, in Medicine texts, of diseases causing black secretions (such as melaena), Refs 5th c.BC+
VI μέλαν, τό, see entry (Cf. Sanskrit málam 'dirt', malinás 'dirty', Lett. melns 'black'.)

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.

black3×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	melanos2×μέλας	melanas	melanem	melanois	melanais	melaneim
object accusative	melanon	melanan1×μέλαιναν		melanoin	melanain
direct address vocative	melanor	melanar		melanoir	melanair
of, belonging to genitive	melanou	melanau	melaneu	melanoiu	melanaiu	melaneiu
to, for dative	melano	melana	melane	melanoi	melanai	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

melanstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

melan 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.

melanem — μέλαν, ink

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

melanos“black”subjectnominative singular2×

Revelation 6:5… Erchosōr. kai horama, kai idou hippos melanos, kai tos kathorōntos epi auton echarōntos …… Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in …

Revelation 6:12… megos geneta, kai tos hēlios geneta melanos hōs sakkos trichinos, kai tas selēnas …… great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and …

melanan“black”objectaccusative singular1×

Matthew 5:36… dunosō henan trichan leukan poiara ē melanan.… make a single hair white or black.