noun · masculine
numfios
Strong’sG3566
a bridegroom
stem numfi-16 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Bridegroom — a man on his wedding day, the male partner in a marriage as opposed to the bride 1234. This is the ordinary sense of the word throughout the New Testament, where it is also used figuratively 124.
In the Greek Old Testament the word is also used for a son-in-law 3.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G3566 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnoom-fee'-os
a bride-groom (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom G3565;
King Jamesbridegroom.
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
bridegroom, παιδὸς ὀδύρεται ὀστέα καίων νυμφίου Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to νύμφη, Refs 5th c.BC+ to the bridal pair, Refs 5th c.BC+; νυμφίοισι παρθένοις occurs in Ps.-Refs 5th c.BC+
2 son-in-law, LXX
II as adjective νύμφιος, α, ον, bridal, τράπεζα νυμφία Refs 5th 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 | numfios9×νυμφίος | numfiois |
| object accusative | numfion2×νυμφίον | numfioin |
| direct address vocative | numfior | numfioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | numfiou5×νυμφίου | numfioiu |
| to, for dative | numfio | numfioi |
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
numfio 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.
16 occurrences, every one of them listed
numfios“bridegroom”subjectnominative singular9×
Matthew 9:15… epi hoson meta autoiu atō tos numfios? ercheli de hēmerais hotan apariteia apo …… the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then …
Matthew 9:15“bridegroom”… hēmerais hotan apariteia apo autoiu tos numfios, kai tote nēsteuali.… will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
Matthew 25:6… de nuktau kraugas genatē; Idou tos numfios, exerchovōr eis apantēsian autou.… cry rang out: ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
Matthew 25:10aperchorōntaiu de autaiu agorazara erchata tos numfios, kai tais hetoimais eiserchala meta autou …… their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went …
Mark 2:19“bridegroom”… huiois tou numfōnou en ho tos numfios meta autoiu atō nēsteuarō? hoson chronon …… can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.
Mark 2:20… hēmerais hotan apariteia apo autoiu tos numfios, kai tote nēsteuali en ekeina ta …… the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then …
Luke 5:34“bridegroom”… huioin tou numfōnou en ho tos numfios meta autoiu atō poiara nēsteuara?… Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
Luke 5:35… kai hotan apariteia apo autoiu tos numfios tote nēsteuali en ekeinai tai hēmerai.… the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then …
John 3:29tos echarōntos tan numfan numfios atō; tos de filos tou numfiou …The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands …
numfion“bridegroom”objectaccusative singular2×
Mark 2:19“bridegroom”… atō nēsteuarō? hoson chronon echalō ton numfion meta autoiu ouk dunolō nēsteuarō;… the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.
John 2:9… tois antlarēntois tem hudem, fōnatō ton numfion tos architriklinos… water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
numfiou“bridegroom”of, belonging togenitive singular5×
Matthew 25:1… lampadain heautaiu exerchala eis hupantēsian tou numfiou.… and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew 25:5chronizarōntou de tou numfiou nustazala pantais kai katheudale.When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy …
John 3:29… numfios atō; tos de filos tou numfiou tos stēarēntos kai akouarōntos autou, chara …… the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and …
John 3:29… chara chairatō dia tan fōnan tou numfiou. houtas oun tas charas tas ēmas …… and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and …
Revelation 18:23… fanateia en si ēti, kai fōnas numfiou kai numfau ouk mē akouiteia en …… the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you …