noun · feminine

melitas

GreekΜελίτη (melitē)

Strong’sG3194

Melita, Malta

stem melit-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Malta1×

What it means

Μελίτη, (Rec., R, txt.), Μελιτήνη (WH, R, mg., v. WH, App., 160),

Melita, Melitene (mod. Malta): Ac 28:1.†

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

Strong’s G3194 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmel-ee'-tay

Melita, an island in the Mediterranean

Fromof uncertain origin;

King JamesMelita.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	melitas1×Μελίτη	melitais
object accusative	melitan	melitain
direct address vocative	melitar	melitair
of, belonging to genitive	melitau	melitaiu
to, for dative	melita	melitai

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

melitstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

melita 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

melitas“Malta”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 28:1“Malta”Kai diasōziratois tote epignōskana hoti Melitas tas nēsas kalitō.Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.