Strong's Concordance mélóté: a sheepskin Original Word: μηλωτή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: mélóté Phonetic Spelling: (may-lo-tay') Definition: a sheepskin Usage: a sheep's (sometimes pig's) hide, sheepskin. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom mélon (a sheep or goat) Definition a sheepskin NASB Translation sheepskins (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3374: μηλωτήμηλωτή, μηλωτης, ἡ (from μῆλον sheep, also a goat; as καμηλωτη (`camlet') from κάμηλος (cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 332)), a sheepskin: Hebrews 11:37, and thence in Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 17, 1 [ET]. For אַדֶּרֶת an outer robe, mantle, the Sept. in 1 Kings 19:13, 19; 2 Kings 2:8, 13f, doubtless because these mantles were made of skins; hence, more closely שֵׂעָר אַדֶּרֶת, a mantle of hair, Zechariah 13:4 (where the Sept. δέρρις τριχινη). In the Byzantine writings (Apoll. Dysk. 191, 9) μηλοτη denotes a monk's garment. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance sheepskin. From melon (a sheep); a sheep-skin -- sheepskin. Forms and Transliterations μηλωταις μηλωταίς μηλωταῖς μηλωτή μηλωτήν melotais melotaîs mēlōtais mēlōtaîsLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |