νύμφη
numphē
“bride”
Definition
compare Latin "nupto," to marry); a young married woman (as veiled), including a betrothed girl; by implication, a son's wife
from a primary but obsolete verb (to veil as a bride;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
νύμφη appears 7 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
They 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.”
For I have come to turn‘a man against his father,a daughter against her mother,a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
The light of a lampwill never shine in you again,and the voices of a bride and bridegroomwill 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.”
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
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