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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 - They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:24 - Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it; then she took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread from it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39 - They went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:40 - They found pasture that was rich and good, and the land was spread out on both sides, and peaceful and undisturbed; for those who lived there previously were Hamites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - These people, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and they [fn]attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and utterly destroyed them to this day; and they 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 of his pasture,

And searches after every green thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:1 -

A [fn]Maskil of Asaph.

God, why have You rejected us forever?

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

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13 -

So we Your people and the sheep of Your [fn]pasture

Will give thanks to You forever;

To all generations we will tell of Your praise.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:7 -

For He is our God,

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

Today, [fn]if you will hear His voice,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:3 -

Know that the LORD [fn]Himself 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 ambush, you wicked person, against the home of the righteous;

Do not destroy his resting place;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:9 -

Saying to those who are bound, ‘[fn]Go free,’

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

They will feed along the roads,

And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:21 -

For the shepherds have become stupid

And have not sought the LORD.

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 who do not call upon Your name;

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him,

And have laid waste his [fn]settlement.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:1 -

“Woe to the shepherds who are causing the sheep of My pasture to perish and are scattering them!” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - “Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and bring them back 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 is evil

And their might is not right.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:7 -

“All who found them have devoured them;

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

Since they have sinned against the LORD who is the habitation of righteousness,

The LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:19 - ‘And I will bring 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 plan of the LORD which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has in mind against the land of the Chaldeans: they will certainly drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; He will certainly make their pasture desolate because of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 -

All of her splendor

Is gone from the daughter of Zion;

Her leaders have become like deer

That have found no pasture,

And they have [fn]fled without strength

[fn]From 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. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:14 - “I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing place will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down in a good grazing place and feed in [fn]rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18 - ‘Is it too little a thing for you to feed in the good pasture, that you must trample with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or too little for you to drink the clear waters, that you must muddy the rest with your feet?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:6 -

As they had their pasture, they became satisfied,

And as they became satisfied, their heart became proud;

Therefore they forgot Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 -

How the animals have groaned!

The herds of cattle have wandered aimlessly

Because there is no pasture for them;

Even the flocks of sheep have [fn]suffered.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 -

And he said,

“The LORD roars from Zion,

And from Jerusalem He utters His voice;

And the shepherds’ pasture grounds mourn,

And the [fn]summit 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 went

With nothing to disturb them?

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:6 -

So the seacoast will become grazing places,

With pastures for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 -

This is the presumptuous city

That dwells securely,

Who says in her heart,

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

How she has become a desolation,

A resting place for animals!

Everyone who passes by her will [fn]hiss

And wave his hand in contempt.

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