Melas means “black” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3189 — yachath (“Jahath”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3189 μέλας (melas) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. melas (mel'-as) adj. 1. black [apparently a primary word] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include black. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
melas (mel'-as) adj. 1. black [apparently a primary word] KJV: black
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3189. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
black
Usage: μέλας, -αινα, -αν genitive, -ανος, -αίνης, -ανος, [in LXX: Sng.1:5, Zec.6:2 (שָׁחֹר), etc. ;] black: Rev.6:5, 12; opposite to λευκός, Mat.5:36; neut., τὸ μ., ink : 2Co.3:3, II Jn 12, 3Jn.13.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render melas, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3189 (μέλας) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But if the scurf remain before him in its place, and a dark hair should have arisen in it, the scurf is healed: he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
I am black, but beautiful, Ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
His head is as very fine gold, His locks are flowing, black as a raven.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3189.
But if the scurf remain before him in its place, and a dark hair should have arisen in it, the scurf is healed: he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
I am black, but beautiful, Ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
His head is as very fine gold, His locks are flowing, black as a raven.
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
As for the chariot in which were the black horses, they went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the piebald went out to the land of the south.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3189, grouped by book.
Melas (Strong's G3189) is a Greek word most simply glossed "black". melas (mel'-as) adj. 1. black [apparently a primary word]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G3189 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3189 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as black. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3189, with linked reader references where each row is available.