noun · feminine
nomas
Greekνομή (nomē)
Strong’sG3542
pasturage, growth
stem nom-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
νομή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< νέμω, to pasture), [in LXX chiefly for מִרְעֶה, also for נָוֶה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3542 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnom-ay'
pasture, i.e. (the act) feeding (figuratively, spreading of a gangrene), or (the food) pasturage
Fromfeminine from the same as G3551;
King JamesX eat, pasture.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nomas | nomais |
| object accusative | noman2×νομὴν | nomain |
| direct address vocative | nomar | nomair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nomau | nomaiu |
| to, for dative | noma | nomai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
noma is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Where it appears
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
noman“pasture”objectaccusative singular2×
John 10:9“pasture”mis amō tas thuras; dia mu ean tinos eiserchateia sōziti kai eisercheti kai exercheti kai noman heuriskati.I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
2 Timothy 2:17“a spreading (effect)”kai tos logos autoiu hōs gangrainas noman echati; hoiu atō Humenaios kai Filētos,and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,