Greek noun (masculine) · G3566
νυμφίος
nymphiosnoom-fee'-os
bridegroom
16 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nymphíos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3566is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3566
a bride-groom (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: bridegroom.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nymphios is rendered "bridegroom". It stands 16 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Six of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:15Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
Matthew 9:15νυμφίος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's sixteen uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bridegroom15
- of a bridegroom1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- νυμφίος9
- νυμφίου5
- νυμφίον2
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular9N-NSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular5N-GSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
Matthew
six uses
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
- νυμφίουnumphiounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
- νυμφίουnumphiounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
Mark
three uses
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
- νυμφίονnumphionnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
Luke
two uses
Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
John
four uses
and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
- νυμφίονnumphionnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
- νυμφίοςnumphiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
- νυμφίουnumphiounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
- νυμφίουnumphiounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom
Revelation
one use
The 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.”
- νυμφίουnumphiounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of a bridegroom
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.