Word Summary
melissios: made by bees
Original Word: μελίσσιοςTransliteration: melissios
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-is'-see-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: made by bees
Meaning: made by bees
Strong's Concordance
honeycomb.
From meli; relating to honey, i.e. Bee (comb) -- honeycomb.
see GREEK meli
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3193: μελίσσιοςμελίσσιος,
μελισσια,
μελισσιον (from
μέλισσα a bee, as
θαλάσσιος from
θάλασσα;
μέλισσα is from
μέλι),
of bees, made by bees:
Luke 24:42 (
R G Tr in brackets). (Not found elsewhere (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 24);
μελισσαιος,
μελισσαια,
μελισσαιον is found in Nic. th. 611, in Eust.
μελίσσειος.)