Strong's G3561: νουμηνία (noumēnía) Meaning

Quick Definition

νουμηνία, ας, ἡ n.f. 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

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

νεομηνία (G3561a)

noun, f. | -ας | νέος + μήν

51.5 · Festivals

new moon festival a festivity associated with the appearance of the new moon

COL 2:16

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

νουμηνία, and ace. to a rarer uncontr. form (cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 148 [Bp. Lghtft. on Col. as below; WH. App. p. 145]) veounvia (so Ltxt. Tr WH), -as, 9, (νέος, μήν a month), new-moon (Vulg. neomenia; barbarous Lat. novilunium): of the Jewish festival of the new moon [BB.DD. 5. v. New Moon], Col. ii. 16. (Sept. chiefly for wn; also for wn ns, Ex. xl. 2; and wy win, Num. x. 10; xxviii. 11 ; see μήν, 2. Pind., Arstph.. Thue., Xen., al.)

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 חֹדֶשׁ;]

new moon: of the Jewish festival, Col 2:16.†

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-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

νουμηνία (noumēnia) — New Moon. νουμην-ία, ἡ, Attic dialect contraction for νεομηνία (which occurs in [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—also νευμηνία, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; νεμονηΐα, [Refs]; νομενία, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— new moon: the first of the month, Pi.[same place], [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; ν. κατὰ σελήνην to denote the true or natural new moon, as opposed to to the νουμηνία of the calendars, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. τοῦ ἔτους, of the spring equinox, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

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)

Bible Occurrences (1)

2:16

G3561 νουμηνία (noumēnía)