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Melite or Melita (/ ˈ m ɛ l ɪ t iː /; Ancient Greek: Μελίτη Melitê means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid' [1]) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology: Melita, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys . [ 2 ]
Melite (Ancient Greek: Μελίτη, Melítē) or Melita was an ancient city located on the site of present-day Mdina and Rabat, Malta. It started out as a Bronze Age settlement, which developed into a city called Ann ( Phoenician : 𐤀𐤍𐤍 , ʾnn ) under the Phoenicians and became the administrative centre of the island. [ 1 ]
Melita" is an archaic term for Malta, an ancient seafaring nation which was then a colony of the British Empire, and is now a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was the site of a shipwreck, mentioned in Acts of the Apostles (chapters 27–28), involving the Apostle Paul. The original words of the 1861 version are: [7]
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with M in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
Acts 28 is the twenty-eighth and final chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the journey of Paul from Malta to Italy until he is at last settled in Rome.
An alternative tune sometimes used for "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less" is "Melita", composed by John B. Dykes.The advantage of "Melita" for "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less" is that "Melita" automatically emphasizes the word rock (which is central to the lyrics) by dedicating one and one-half beats to that word (where in "Solid Rock" it has merely an eighth note).
English Bible translations including the 1611 King James Version long used the Vulgate Latin form Melita, although the 1525 Tyndale Bible used the transliteration Melite instead. Malta is widely used in more recent versions. [50]
The variant spelling/pronunciation Melitta is the Attic Greek dialect for Melissa. (Compare the Attic word for sea, thalatta, with the more common thalassa.)Within a fragment of the Orphic poetry, quoted by Natalis Comes, Melitta is spoken of as a hive, and called Seira, or the hive of Venus: