Word Study · Strong's G3565 · Greek
νύμφη
nymphe
noom-fay'
Strong's 1890 spelling: nýmphē
“a young married woman (as veiled), including a betrothed girl”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a young married woman (as veiled), including a betrothed girl; by implication, a son's wife
Rendered in the KJV as
bride, daughter in law.
- 8occurrencesin the New Testament
- 4 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 8 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- νύμφην5
- νύμφη2
- νύμφης1
How it is rendered · 4
- bride3
- a bride2
- daughter-in-law2
- a daughter-in-law1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular5
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- N-ASF · 5
- N-NSF · 2
- N-GSF · 1
All 8, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Luke2 occurrences
- Luke 12:53νύμφηνnumphēnnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singularThey will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”here: daughter-in-law
- Luke 12:53νύμφηnumphēnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singularThey will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”here: daughter-in-law
Revelation4 occurrences
- Revelation 18:23νύμφηςnumphēsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularThe light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”here: a bride
- Revelation 21:2νύμφηνnumphēnnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singularI saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.here: a bride
- Revelation 21:9νύμφηνnumphēnnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singularThen one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”here: bride
- Revelation 22:17νύμφηnumphēnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singularThe Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.here: bride