μέλαθρον
rafter, roof-beam
Where this word appears
Every passage where μέλαθρον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Kings 6:5 μέλαθρον And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark.
- 1 Kings 7:9 μέλαθρον
- 1 Kings 7:9 μέλαθρον
- 1 Kings 7:41 μέλαθρον two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two networks to cover both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars.
About this word
About this word
μέλαθρον (mélathron), “rafter, roof-beam,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
