Lexicon nouménia: new moon. Original Word: νουμηνία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: nouménia Phonetic Spelling: (noo-may-nee'-ah) Short Definition: the new moon as a festival Definition: the new moon, first of the month. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originvariant reading for neoménia, q.v. Thayer's STRONGS NT 3561: νεομηνίανεομηνία, see νουμηνία. STRONGS NT 3561: νουμηνίανουμηνία, and according to a rarer uncontracted form (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 148 (Lightfoot on Col. as below; WH's Appendix, p. 145)) νεομηνία (so L text Tr WH), νουμηνίας, ἡ (νέος, μήν a month), new moon (Vulg.neomenia; barbarous Latinnovilunium): of the Jewish festival of the new moon (BB. DD., under the phrase, New Moon), Colossians 2:16. (The Sept. chiefly for חֹדֶשׁ; also for חֹדֶשׁ אֶחָד, Exodus 40:2; and חֹדֶשׁ רֹאשׁ, Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11; see μήν, 2. Pindar, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, others.)
Strong's new moon. Feminine of a compound of neos and men (as noun by implication, of hemera); the festival of new moon -- new moon. see GREEK neos see GREEK men see GREEK hemera |
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