ΝΗΦΩΝ, νηφων
NĒPHŌN, nēphōn
Sounds Like: NAY-fone
Translations: sober, watchful, vigilant, a sober one, a watchful one
From the root: ΝΗΦΩ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Participle
Explanation: This word describes someone who is sober, not necessarily in the sense of being free from alcohol, but more broadly as being clear-headed, self-controlled, and vigilant. It implies a state of mental alertness and watchfulness, often used in a moral or spiritual context to encourage carefulness and preparedness.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3525 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 1:42
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
- ΝΗΦΟΝΤΕΣ — being sober, sober, being temperate, temperate
- 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
- 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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