ΝΗΦΟΝΤΕΣ, νηφοντες
NĒPHONTES, nēphontes
Sounds Like: NAY-fon-tes
Translations: being sober, sober, being temperate, temperate
From the root: ΝΗΦΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word describes someone who is sober, not intoxicated, and by extension, someone who is self-controlled, vigilant, and clear-headed. It implies a state of mental alertness and moderation, often used in a moral or spiritual sense to encourage watchfulness and self-restraint.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G3525 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Peter — 1:13
Josephus' The Jewish War
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 7:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 1 Peter — 1:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΗΦΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΝΗΦ — be sober, be temperate, be watchful, be self-controlled
- ΝΗΦΕ — be sober, be watchful, be self-controlled, be temperate
- ΝΗΦΕΙΝ — to be sober, to be self-controlled, to be temperate, to be watchful
- ΝΗΦΟΝΤΙ — (to) a sober one, (to) one who is sober, (to) a vigilant one, (to) one who is vigilant
- ΝΗΦΩ — be sober, be temperate, be calm, be self-controlled
- ΝΗΦΩΜΕ — let us be sober, let us be self-controlled, let us be temperate, let us be calm, let us be watchful
- ΝΗΦΩΜΕΝ — let us be sober, let us be self-controlled, let us be temperate, let us be watchful
- ΝΗΦΩΝ — sober, watchful, vigilant, a sober one, a watchful one
- ΝΗΨ — sober, temperate, watchful, alert
- ΝΗΨΑΝΤΕΣ — being sober, having become sober, being watchful, having become watchful, being self-controlled, having become self-controlled
- ΝΗΨΑΤΕ — be sober, sober up, be self-controlled, be watchful, be vigilant
- ΝΗΨΩΜΕΝ — let us be sober, let us be watchful, let us be self-controlled
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