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Lexicon :: Strong's G3542 - nomē

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νομή
Transliteration
nomē (Key)
Pronunciation
nom-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as νόμος (G3551)
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Strong’s Definitions

νομή nomḗ, nom-ay'; feminine from the same as G3551; pasture, i.e. (the act) feeding (figuratively, spreading of a gangrene), or (the food) pasturage:—X eat, pasture.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G3542 in the following manner: pasture (1x), eat (with G2192) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G3542 in the following manner: pasture (1x), eat (with G2192) (1x).
  1. pasturage, fodder, food

    1. fig. he shall not want the needful supplies for the true life

  2. growth, increase

    1. of evils spreading like a gangrene

    2. of ulcers

    3. of a conflagration

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
νομή nomḗ, nom-ay'; feminine from the same as G3551; pasture, i.e. (the act) feeding (figuratively, spreading of a gangrene), or (the food) pasturage:—X eat, pasture.
STRONGS G3542:
νομή, νομῆς, (νέμω to pasture), from Homer (i. e. batrach.) down;
1. pasturage, fodder, food: in figurative discourse εὑρήσει νομήν, i. e. he shall not want the needful supplies for the true life, John 10:9; (the Sept. for מִרְעֶה, מַרְעִית, נָוֶה).
2. tropically, growth, increase (German Umsicbfressen, Umsichgreifen): of evils spreading like a gangrene, 2 Timothy 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 LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

John
10:9
2 Timothy
2:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3542 matches the Greek νομή (nomē),
which occurs 34 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is heavy in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants [fn]live in the land of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:24 - And the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly sacrificed it; and she took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread from it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39 -

They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:40 - They found rich and good pasture, and the land was broad and quiet and peaceful; for those who lived there formerly were Hamites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - And these, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck down their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and devoted them to destruction to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:17 -

“He does not look at the streams,

The rivers flowing with honey and curds.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:8 -

“He explores the mountains for his pasture

And searches after every green thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:1 -

A [fn]Maskil of Asaph.

Why, O God? Have You rejected us forever?

Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your [fn]pasture?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13 -

But as for us, as Your people and the sheep of Your pasture,

We will give thanks to You forever;

From generation to generation we will recount Your praise.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:7 -

For He is our God,

And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.

Today, [fn]if you hear His voice,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:3 -

Know that Yahweh, He is God;

It is He who has made us, and [fn]not we ourselves;

We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:15 -

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the abode of the righteous;

Do not destroy his resting place;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:9 -

Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’

To those who are in darkness, ‘[fn]Show yourselves.’

Along the roads they will [fn]feed,

And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:21 -

For the shepherds have become senseless

And have not sought Yahweh;

Therefore they have not prospered,

And all their flock is scattered.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 -

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You

And on the families that do not call Your name,

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him

And have made desolate his [fn]abode.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:1 -

“Woe to the shepherds who are [fn]destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - “Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the land where I have banished them and cause them to return to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 -

For the land is full of adulterers;

For the land mourns because of the curse.

The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

Their course also is evil,

And their might is not right.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:7 -

“All who came out against them have devoured them;

And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,

Inasmuch as they have sinned against Yahweh, who is the abode of righteousness,

Even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:19 - ‘And I will [fn]return Israel back to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his [fn]desire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh which He has counseled against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their [fn]pasture desolate because of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 -

Vav

So all her majesty

Has gone out from the daughter of Zion;

Her princes have become like deer

That have found no pasture;

So they have [fn]fled without strength

Before the pursuer.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - “I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:14 - “I will shepherd them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and be shepherded in [fn]rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18 - ‘Is it too slight a thing for you that you should be shepherded in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must [fn]foul the rest with your feet?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:6 -

As they had their pasture, then they became satisfied,

Indeed, they were satisfied, and their heart became raised up;

Therefore they forgot Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 -

How the beasts groan!

The herds of cattle wander aimlessly

Because there is no pasture for them;

Even the flocks of sheep [fn]suffer.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - And he said,

[fn]Yahweh roars from Zion

And from Jerusalem He gives forth His voice;

And the shepherds’ pasture grounds mourn,

And the [fn]top of Carmel dries up.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11 -

Where is the den of the lions

And the feeding place of the young lions,

Where the lion, lioness, and lion’s cub prowled,

With nothing to make them tremble?

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:6 -

So the seacoast will be pastures,

With [fn]caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 -

This is the exultant city

Which inhabits securely,

Who says in her heart,

“I am, and there is no one besides me.”

How she has become an object of horror,

A resting place for beasts!

Everyone who passes by her will hiss

And wave his hand in contempt.

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