noun · feminine
numfas
Strong’sG3565
a bride, daughter-in-law
stem numf-8 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
νύμφη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for כַּלָּה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3565 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnoom-fay'
compare Latin "nupto," to marry); a young married woman (as veiled), including a betrothed girl; by implication, a son's wife
Fromfrom a primary but obsolete verb νύπτω (to veil as a bride;
King Jamesbride, daughter in law.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Epic dialect vocative νύμφᾰ Refs 8th c.BC+ (Aeolic dialect accusative to Refs 4th c.AD+; later also as nominative, Refs; but Doric dialect νύμφᾱ), young wife, bride, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to νυμφίος, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to παρθένος, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 marriageable maiden, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 daughter-in-law, LXX+NT
4 young girl, πενταέτης ν. Refs
II “Nymph” or goddess of lower rank, θεαὶ Νύμφαι Refs 8th c.BC+ (anapaest meter; compare Ναϊάς, Νηρηΐς); N. Ὀρεστιάδες, Ὀρειάδες, Refs 8th c.BC+; N. ὑάδες, ὑδριάδες, Refs 3rd c.AD+; N. λειμωνιάδες, πετραῖαι, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 especially of springs, ὀνομάζεσθαι τὰς πηγὰς N. Refs 2nd c.AD+: hence, poetically, water, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.3 in mystical theology, Ζεὺς ἄμβροτος ἔπλετο ν. Refs 5th c.AD+
II.3.b applied to souls seeking birth, Refs 3rd c.AD+; compare νυμφεύω.
III doll, puppet, Refs 4th c.AD+
IV young bee or wasp, in the pupa stage, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV.b winged male of the ant, Refs 5th c.AD+
V kind of mollusc, Speusipp. cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+
VI point of the ploughshare, Refs 8th c.BC+
VII hollow between the under-lip and chin, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VII.b depression on the shoulder of horses, Refs
VIII opening rosebud, Refs 9th c.AD+
IX clitoris, Refs 2nd c.AD+
X niche, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | numfas2×νύμφη | numfais |
| object accusative | numfan5×νύμφην | numfain |
| direct address vocative | numfar | numfair |
| of, belonging to genitive | numfau1×νύμφης | numfaiu |
| to, for dative | numfa | numfai |
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
numfa 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
numfas“bride”subjectnominative singular2×
Luke 12:53… pentheras epi tan numfan autau kai numfas epi tan pentheran.… against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Revelation 22:17kai tem pneumem kai tas numfas legalō; Erchosōr; kai tos akouarōntos legatar; …The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who …
numfan“bride”objectaccusative singular5×
Matthew 10:35… thugatran kata tau mētērau autau kai numfan kata tau pentherau autau,… a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Luke 12:53… epi tan mētēran, pentheras epi tan numfan autau kai numfas epi tan pentheran.… and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
John 3:29tos echarōntos tan numfan numfios atō; tos de filos tou …The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend …
Revelation 21:2… ouranou apo tou theou, hetoimazorēntan hōs numfan kosmorēntan to andro autau.… heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:9… mu legarōntos; Deuro, deikami si tan numfan tan gunaikan teu arnieu.… Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
numfau“bride”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 18:23… si ēti, kai fōnas numfiou kai numfau ouk mē akouiteia en si ēti; …… again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out …