noun · masculine
numfōnos
Strong’sG3567
a bridal chamber
stem numfōn-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
**† νυμφών, -ῶνος, ὁ
(< νύμφη), [in LXX: To 6:13, 16*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3567 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnoom-fohn'
the bridal room
Fromfrom G3565;
King Jamesbridechamber.
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
bridechamber, LXX+NT+1st c.AD+
II temple of Dionysus, Demeter, and Persephone, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III a kind of νυμφαία, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | numfōnos | numfōnois |
| object accusative | numfōnon | numfōnoin |
| direct address vocative | numfōnor | numfōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | numfōnou3×νυμφῶνος | numfōnoiu |
| to, for dative | numfōno | numfōnoi |
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
numfōno 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
numfōnou“bridegroom”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 9:15… Iēsus; Mē dunolō tois huiois tou numfōnou pentharō epi hoson meta autoiu atō …… How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them …
Mark 2:19… Iēsus; Mē dunolō tois huiois tou numfōnou en ho tos numfios meta autoiu …… How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them …
Luke 5:34… autoin; Mē dunovō toin huioin tou numfōnou en ho tos numfios meta autoiu …… you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?