ΝΗΨ, νηψ
NĒPS, nēps
Sounds Like: NAYPS
Translations: sober, temperate, watchful, alert
From the root: ΝΗΦΩ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone who is sober, not intoxicated, and by extension, someone who is watchful, alert, and clear-headed. It implies a state of mental and spiritual vigilance, often used in a metaphorical sense to encourage spiritual sobriety and attentiveness.
Inflection: Singular, Masculine or Feminine, Nominative
Strong’s number: G3525 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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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
- ΝΗΦΩΝ — sober, watchful, vigilant, a sober one, a watchful one
- 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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