3374. mélóté
Strong's Concordance
mélóté: a sheepskin
Original Word: μηλωτή, ῆς, ἡ
Part 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 Origin
from mélon (a sheep or goat)
Definition
a sheepskin
NASB Translation
sheepskins (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3374: μηλωτή

μηλωτή, μηλωτης, (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 mēlōtaîs
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Englishman's Concordance
Hebrews 11:37 N-DFP
GRK: περιῆλθον ἐν μηλωταῖς ἐν αἰγείοις
NAS: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins,
KJV: in sheepskins and
INT: they wandered in sheepskins in goats'

Strong's Greek 3374
1 Occurrence


μηλωταῖς — 1 Occ.

















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