Word Summary
membrana: parchment
Original Word: μεμβράναTransliteration: membrana
Phonetic Spelling: (mem-bran'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: parchment
Meaning: parchment
Strong's Concordance
parchment.
Of Latin origin ("membrane"); a (written) sheep-skin -- parchment.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3200: μεμβράναμεμβράνα (
Sophocles' Lexicon,
μεμβράνα; cf.
Chandler § 136),
μεμβράνας (
Buttmann, 17 (15)),
ἡ, Latin
membrana, i. e.
parchment, first made of dressed skins at Pergamum, whence its name:
2 Timothy 4:13 (
Act. Barnabas, 6 at the end Cf. Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, chapter ii.; Gardthausen, Palacographie, p. 39f).