ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΑΣ, νουμηνιας
NOUMĒNIAS, noumēnias
Sounds Like: noo-MAY-nee-as
Translations: (of) new moons, (of) new moon festivals
From the root: ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the first day of the lunar month, which was often observed as a religious festival or a time of special worship in ancient cultures, particularly among the Israelites. It signifies the beginning of a new month according to the lunar calendar.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3561 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Colossians — 2:16
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 13:41
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 8:4
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 4:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 29:6
- 2 Chronicles — 31:3
- Ezra (Alpha) — 5:52, 9:17
- Ezra (Beta) — 3:5
- Isaiah — 1:13, 1:14
- Ezekiel — 46:1, 46:6
- Hosea — 2:11
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Colossians — 2:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΑ.
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.
- ΝΟΥΜ — new moon, new month
- ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΑ — new moon, a new moon, new moon festival
- ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΑΙ — new moon, new moon festival, new moon day
- ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΑΙΣ — new moon, new moon festival, new moon celebration
- ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΩΝ — of new moons, of new moon festivals
- ΝΟΥΜΙΝΙΑΣ — of new moon, of new moons, of a new moon, new moon, new moons
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