νομή
nomḗ · G3542 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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pasture
Pasture land in contrast with cultivated fields
ExamplesJohn 10:9 “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
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extension, extend, spread, increase
(A figurative extension of meaning of νομή ‘pasture,’) Extension of an area
Examples2 Timothy 2:17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
- ἔχωto have 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- מִרְעֶה mirʻeh · H4829 · pasture land
- Hebrew מִרְעֶה and Greek νομή are direct cross-linguistic equivalents denoting pasture/pasturage as both the place of feeding and the grazing activity itself, with νομή extending metaphorically to spreading (as in disease) while מִרְעֶה remains primarily concrete.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Pasture1.98
- Describing Himself as the door, John 10:9 states “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture,” where “pasture” renders this noun for grazing land.
- Extension, extend, spread, increase84.1
- Warning against worldly talk, 2 Timothy 2:17 states “and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,” where “spread” renders a phrase built on this same noun's figurative sense of something extending or growing, here of gangrene increasing through the body.
Word family 22 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νομῆς, ἡ (νέμω to pasture), from Homer (i. e. batrach.) down; 1. pasturage, fodder, food:…
1. pasturage, fodder, food: in figurative discourse εὑρήσει νομήν, i. e. he shall not want the needful supplies for the true life, Jn 10:9; (the Sept. for מִרְעֶה, מַרְעִית, נָוֶה).
2. tropically, growth, increase (German Umsicbfressen, Umsichgreifen): of evils spreading like a gangrene, 2 Tim 2:17 (of ulcers, νομήν ποιεῖται ἕλκος, Polybius 1, 81, 6; of a conflagration, τό πῦρ λαμβάνει νομήν, 11, 4 (5), 4 cf. 1, 48, 5; Josephus, b. j. 6, 2, 9).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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