Honey
μέλιStrong’s G3192meli
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Meli is the Greek word usually translated “honey”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.”
Meaning
Usually translated “honey”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- honey 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 2
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 1:6And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
- Revelation 10:9And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
- Revelation 10:10And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
Greek dictionary
μέλι meli · honey
μέλι, -τος, τό [in LXX frequently (Gen.43:11, al.) for דְּבַשׁ; for נֹפֶת, Pro.5:3 ;] honey: Rev.10:9-10; ἄγριον (which see), Mat.3:4, Mrk.1:9.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “honey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HON'EY, noun
hun'y.
- A sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants, and deposited in cells of the comb in hives. honey when pure, is of a moderate consistence, of a whitish color, tinged with yellow, sweet to the taste, of an agreeable smell, soluble in water, and becoming vinous by fermentation.
- Sweetness; lusciousness.
- A word of tenderness; sweetness; sweet one.
All definitions and other forms of “honey”
HON'EY, verb transitive
To talk fondly. [Little used.]
- To sweeten.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.