Quick Definition
a bride, daughter-in-law
Strong's Definition
compare Latin "nupto," to marry); a young married woman (as veiled), including a betrothed girl; by implication, a son's wife
Derivation: from a primary but obsolete verb (to veil as a bride;
KJV Usage: bride, daughter in law
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
νύμφη, νύμφης, ἡ (apparently allied with Latinnubo; Vanicek, p. 429f), the Sept. for λΗΜμΘΜδ;
1. a betrothed woman, a bride: Joh_3:29; Rev_18:23; Rev_21:2; Rev_21:9; Rev_22:17.
2. in the Greek writings from Homer down, a recently married woman, young wife; a young woman; hence, in Biblical and ecclesiastical Greek, like the Hebrew λΗΜμΘΜδ (which signifies both a bride and a daughter-in-law (cf. Winers Grammar, 32)), a daughter-inlaw: Mat_10:35; Luk_12:53. (Mic_7:6; Gen_11:31; (Gen_38:11); Rth_1:6 (etc.); also Josephus, Antiquities 5, 9, 1.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
νύμφη nymphē 8x
a bride, Joh_3:29 ; Rev_18:23 ; Rev_21:2 ; Rev_21:9 ; Rev_22:17 ;
opposed to πενθερά , a daughter-in-law, Mat_10:35 ; Luk_12:53 * bride.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
νύμφη , -ης , ἡ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H3618 ;]
1. cl ., a bride, young wife, young woman: Mat_25:1 , WH , mg ., Joh_3:29 , Rev_18:23 ; Rev_21:2 ; Rev_21:9 ; Rev_22:17 .
2. As freq . in LXX ( Gen_38:11 , al. , for H3618 ;
(a) bride;
(b) daughter-in-law ) and in MGr . (νύφφη , νύφη ), a daughter-in-law: Mat_10:35 , Luk_12:53 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
νύμφη [page 431]
Thumb ( Hellen. p. 123) cites the MGr νύ (φ )φη , bride, daughter-in-law, to support the Greek character of the meaning daughter-in-law ( Mat_10:35 , Tob_11:16 f. B, al. ), as against Grimm s reference to Heb. λΜΗμΜΘδ The word is used of a little girl five years old in Kaibel 570 .2 (ii/A.D.) Νύμφη is cognate with Lat. nubo , νυός , and νεῦρον (Boisacq, p. 673 f.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
νύμφη νύμφη, ἡ, epic voc. νύμφα^: doric νύμφα_:—, "a young wife, bride", Lat. nupta, Il. , Trag. "any married woman", Od. , Eur. "a marriageable maiden", Il. , Hes. = Lat. nurus, daughter-in-law, NTest. as prop. name, "a Nymph", Hom. ; θεαὶ Νύμφαι Il. ; distinguished by special names, "spring-" nymphs being Ναϊάδες, "sea-" nymphs Νηρηίδες, "tree-" nymphs Δρυάδες, Ἁμαδρυάδες, "mountain-" nymphs ὀρεστιάδες, ὀρεάδες, "meadow-" nymphs λειμωνιάδες. persons in a state of "rapture", as seers and poets, were said to be "caught by the Nymphs", νυμφόληπτοι, Lat. lymphatici. "the chrysalis", or "pupa" of moths, Anth.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
νύμφη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for כַּלָּה ;]
__1. cl., a bride, young wife, young woman: Mat.25:1, WH, mg., Jhn.3:29, Rev.18:23 21:2, 9 22:17.
__2. As frequently in LXX (Gen.38:11, al., for כַּלָּה;
__(a) bride;
__(b) daughter-in-law) and in MGr. (νύφφη, νύφη), a daughter-in-law: Mat.10:35, Luk.12:53.†
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