Quick Definition
the new moon as a festival
Biblical Persons & Places
New_Moon
Name of a festival
A festival; called New Moon (νουμηνία)
Strong's Definition
the festival of new moon
Derivation: feminine of a compound of G3501 (νέος) and G3376 (μήν) (as noun by implication, of G2250 (ἡμέρα));
KJV Usage: new moon
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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), Col_2:16. (The Sept. chiefly for ηΙγΖωΡ; also for ηΙγΖωΡ ΰΖηΘγ, Exo_40:2; and ηΙγΖωΡ ψΙΰωΡ, Num_10:10; Num_28:11; see μήν, 2. Pindar, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
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Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
νεομηνία
( Att. . contr ., νουμ -, Rec. ), -ας , ἡ
( < νέος , μήν ),
[in LXX chiefly for H2320 ;]
new moon: of the Jewish festival, Col_2:16 .†
νουμηνία , see νεομηνία .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
νουμηνία / νεομηνία [pages 430, 424]
For this uncontracted form (Ionic), which is preferred by WH in Col_2:16 , we have no evidence earlier than ii/A.D., e.g. P Tebt II. 318 .12 (A.D. 166) μηνὶ Πάχων νεομηνίᾳ , on the first of the month Pachon. P Goodsp Cairo 30 xi. 9 (A.D. 191 2) ἐπὶ τῆς νεομ (ηνίας ), P Leid W ix. 45 (ii/iii A.D.) ταῖς τῶν θεῶν αὐθεντικαῖς νεομηνίαις , BGU IV. 1021 .10 (iii/A.D.) ἀπὸ τῆς οὔσης νεομηνίας τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Ἐπείφ : cf. Lob. Phryn. p. 148 Νεομηνία non contractis primoribus syllabis perrarum est etiam in vulgari Graecitate. It is doubtful, therefore, whether it should be read in the NT passage, especially in view of the occurrence of νουμηνία in most books of the LXX (Thackeray Gr. i. p. 98), and regularly in the Ptolemaic papyri and the inscrr., e.g. P Petr II 4(2) .6 (B.C. 255 4) ἕως τῆς νουμηνίας , BGU IV. 1053 .20 (B.C. 13) ἐν μησὶν ῑ ἀπὸ νουμηνίας , Syll 139 ( = .3 284) .16 ( c. B.C. 322) στεφανωθήσεται (ὁ ἀνδριὰς ) ἀεὶ ταῖς νουμηνίαις καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις ἑορταῖς , Preisigke 1057 Πέταλος . . . παρεγενέθη πρὸς τὸν Σάραπιν νουμηνίᾳ . Souter draws our attention to the occurrence of numenia in good Lat. MSS.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
νουμηνία νου-μηνία, ἡ, [Etym: attic contr. for νεομηνία] [Etym: νέος, μήν] "the new moon, the first of the month", Pind. , Ar. ; ν. κατὰ σελήνην, to denote the "true new moon", as opp. to the νουμηνία of the calendars, Hdt. , Ar. , etc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
νεομηνία (Att.. contr., νουμ-, Rec.), -ας, ἡ
(νέος, μήν), [in LXX chiefly for חֹדֶשׁ ;]
new moon: of the Jewish festival, Col.2:16.†
(AS)