Nosphizomai means “keep back” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3557 — kul (“bear”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3557 νοσφίζομαι (nosphizomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nosphizomai (nos-fid'-zom-ai) v. 1. to sequestrate for oneself, i.e. embezzle [middle voice from nosphi (apart or clandestinely)] It has 5 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include back, keep, and purloining. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
nosphizomai (nos-fid'-zom-ai) v. 1. to sequestrate for oneself, i.e. embezzle [middle voice from nosphi (apart or clandestinely)] KJV: keep back, purloin
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3557. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to embezzle
Usage: νοσφίζω (νόσφι, apart, aside), [in LXX: Jos.7:1 (לָקַח), 2Ma.4:32 * ;] __1. in Hom., as depon., to turn away (from), abandon. __2. After Hom., in act., to set apart, remove. Mid., to set apart for oneself, peculate, purloin: absol., Tit.2:10 (for ex. in π., see MM, xvii); before ἀπό, Act.5:2-3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nosphizomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3557 (νοσφίζομαι) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But the children of Israel committed a great trespass, and purloined part of the accursed thing; and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing; and the Lord was very angry with the children of Israel.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time, stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyre and the cities round about.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3557.
But the children of Israel committed a great trespass, and purloined part of the accursed thing; and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing; and the Lord was very angry with the children of Israel.
And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time, stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyre and the cities round about.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3557, grouped by book.
Nosphizomai (Strong's G3557) is a Greek word most simply glossed "keep back". nosphizomai (nos-fid'-zom-ai) v. 1. to sequestrate for oneself, i.e. embezzle [middle voice from nosphi (apart or clandestinely)]
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G3557 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3557 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as back, keep, and purloining. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3557, with linked reader references where each row is available.