Lexical 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, Latinmembrana, 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). |
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