What does νόμισμα (nómisma) mean in the Bible?
νόμισμα (nómisma): Currency established by state authority; what society recognizes and accepts as legitimate monetary exchange
Greek · G3546
νόμισμα
Coin
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νόμισμαG3546
Pronunciationnómisma
What does νόμισμα (nómisma) mean in the Bible?
νόμισμα (nómisma): Currency established by state authority; what society recognizes and accepts as legitimate monetary exchange
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How does the BSB render G3546?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include coin (1).
Where does νόμισμα (nómisma) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 22:19. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
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How English Renders Itcoin1×Matthew 22:19
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First aligned rowMatthew 22:19
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Matthew1
Source forms
νόμισμα1xnomismaMatthew 22:19
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular1xMatthew 22:19
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Currency established by state authority; what society recognizes and accepts as legitimate monetary exchange
Strong'sG3546
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
coin
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Currency established by state authority; what society recognizes and accepts as legitimate monetary exchange
(νομίζω), [in LXX: Est.8:36 (דָּת), Neh.7:71 R (דַּרְכְּמוֹן), 1Ma.15:6 * ;]
1that which is established by usage, a custom.
2The current coin of a state: Mat.22:19.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 22:19Noun Accusative Singular Neuter
νόμισμαnomisma
money, coin
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · NeuterMatt 22:191×
Word Origins
νόμισμα is built from this root: