νυχθήμερον
nychthḗmeron · G3574 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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a night and a day
A period consisting of a night and a day (essentially similar in meaning to ἡμέρα ‘day,’, but somewhat more explicit and emphatic)
Examples2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift at sea.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἡμέρα hēméra · G2250 · day
- ἡμέρα is the standard Greek word for 'day' and can denote a full 24-hour period, making it a near-synonym to νυχθήμερον, though νυχθήμερον explicitly emphasizes the night-and-day totality while ἡμέρα is more general and can refer to daylight alone or a complete day depending on context.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- A night and a day67.179
- Listing his sufferings, 2 Corinthians 11:25 states “Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift at sea,” where “a night and a day” renders this noun, a fixed compound expression for a full twenty-four-hour period.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νυχθημερου, τό (νύξ and ἡμέρα), a night and a day, the space of twenty-four hours: 2 Cor…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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