μῆλον
apple, fruit
Where this word appears
Every passage where μῆλον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 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.
- Genesis 30:14 μῆλον And Ruben went in the day of barley harvest, and found apples of mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Lea; and Rachel said to Lea her sister, Give me of your son's mandrakes.
- Proverbs 25:11 μῆλον As a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, so is it to speak a wise word.
- Song of Solomon 2:3 μῆλον As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.
- Song of Solomon 2:5 μῆλον Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.
- Song of Solomon 4:3 μῆλον Your lips are as a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is your cheek without your veil.
- Song of Solomon 6:7 μῆλον There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
- Song of Solomon 7:9 μῆλον and your throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.
- Song of Solomon 8:5 μῆλον Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised you up under an apple tree; there your mother brought you forth; there she that bore you brought you forth.
- Joel 1:12 μῆλον The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.
About this word
About this word
μῆλον (mē̂lon), “apple, fruit,” 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 9 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 →