What does νουμηνία (noumēnía) mean in the Bible?
νουμηνία (noumēnía) is a Greek word meaning "the festival of new moon".
Greek · G3561
νουμηνία
The festival of new moon
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νουμηνίαG3561
Pronunciationnoumēnía
What does νουμηνία (noumēnía) mean in the Bible?
νουμηνία (noumēnía) is a Greek word meaning "the festival of new moon".
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How does the BSB render G3561?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include a New Moon (1).
Where does νουμηνία (noumēnía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Colossians 2:16. Its strongest book concentrations include Colossians (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ita New Moon1×Colossians 2:16
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First aligned rowColossians 2:16
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Colossians1
Source forms
νεομηνίας1xneomēniasColossians 2:16
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xColossians 2:16
Evidence Summary
Greek word. the festival of new moon
Strong'sG3561
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
the festival of new moon
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
(νέος, μήν), [in LXX chiefly for חֹדֶשׁ ;] new moon: of the Jewish festival, Col.2:16.
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.
Colossians 2:16Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
νουμηνίαςnoumhniav
the new moon as a festival
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 patternGenitive (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · FeminineCol 2:161×
Word Origins
νουμηνία is built from these roots: