noun · neuter
melitem
Strong’sG3192
honey
stem melit-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
μέλι, -τος, τό,
[in LXX freq. (Ge 43:11, al.) for דְּבַשׁ; for נֹפֶת, Pr 5:3;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3192 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmel'-ee
honey
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jameshoney.
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
genitive ῐτος, etc.; dative μέλι Refs 5th c.BC+:—honey, Refs 8th c.BC+; said to be made from the palm (φοῖνιξ), Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in comparisons, of anything sweet, especially of eloquence, μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή Refs 8th c.BC+, of those who refuse to take 'the rough with the smooth', Refs 7th c.BC+
II sweet gum collected from certain trees, manna, Refs 4th c.BC+; μ. ἄγριον, μαινόμενον, Refs 1st c.BC+. (Cf. Gothic milip, Latin mel.)
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 | melitem3×μέλι | meliteim |
| of, belonging to genitive | meliteu | meliteiu |
| to, for dative | melite | melitei |
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
melite 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
melitem“honey”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Matthew 3:4… de trofēas ate autou akridais kai melitem agriem.… His food was locusts and wild honey.
Revelation 10:9… te stome su eti glukuem hōs melitem.… it will be as sweet as honey.”
Revelation 10:10… ate en te stome mu hōs melitem glukuem; kai hote esthiama autem, pikranita …… and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I …
melitem1×
Mark 1:6… osfuan autou, kai estharōntos akridain kai melitem agriem.… His food was locusts and wild honey.