noun · feminine
mēlōtas
Strong’sG3374
a sheepskin
stem mēlōt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
μηλωτή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< μῆλον, a sheep or goat), [in LXX for אַדֶּרֶת, III Ki 19:13, 19, IV Ki 2:8, 13, 14*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3374 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmay-lo-tay'
a sheep-skin
Fromfrom μῆλον (a sheep);
King Jamessheepskin.
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
(μῆλον A) sheepskin, any rough woolly skin, NT+5th c.BC+
II (μήλη) = {μηλωτίς}, Erot. see at {κάτοπτρον}.
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 nominative | mēlōtas | mēlōtais |
| object accusative | mēlōtan | mēlōtain |
| direct address vocative | mēlōtar | mēlōtair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mēlōtau | mēlōtaiu |
| to, for dative | mēlōta | mēlōtai1×μηλωταῖς |
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
mēlōta 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
mēlōtai“sheepskins”to, fordative plural1×
Hebrews 11:37… en fono machairau apothnēskala, perierchala en mēlōtai, en aigeiei dermei, husterorōntois, thliborōntois, kakouchorōntois,… the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.