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Strong's G3561 νουμηνία (noumenia)

Noumenia means “new moon” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3561 — kavvan (“cake”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3561
Language Greek
Linked Usages 34
Books 16

Strong's G3561 Quick Answer

Strong's G3561 νουμηνία (noumenia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. noumenia (nou-may-nee'-ah) n. 1. the festival of new moon [feminine of a compound of G3501 and G3376 (as noun by implication, of G2250)] It has 34 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include new. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
noumenia (nou-may-nee'-ah) n. 1. the festival of new moon [feminine of a compound of G3501 and G3376 (as noun by implication, of G2250)]
Usage
34 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
new

Meaning and Definition

noumenia (nou-may-nee'-ah) n. 1. the festival of new moon [feminine of a compound of G3501 and G3376 (as noun by implication, of G2250)] KJV: new moon Root(s): G3501, G3376 See also: G2250

Original Word
νουμηνία
Transliteration
noumenia
Derivation
Root: μήν R1: 3501 R2: 3376
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3561. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

New Moon

Usage: νεομηνία (Att.. contr., νουμ-, Rec.), -ας, ἡ (νέος, μήν), [in LXX chiefly for חֹדֶשׁ ;] new moon: of the Jewish festival, Col.2:16.† (AS)

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How Strong's G3561 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render noumenia, 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.

How Strong's G3561 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 23 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3561 (νουμηνία) appears 34 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3561 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3561 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Colossians 2:16 KJV

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Strong's G3561 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

23 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 40:2 Septuagint / Brenton

On the first day of the first month, at the new moon, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of witness,

Exodus 40:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year after their going forth out of Egypt, at the new moon, that the tabernacle was set up.

Numbers 10:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall sound with the trumpets at your whole burnt offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.

Strong's G3561 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 5:51 Septuagint / Brenton

Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:

1 Esdras 5:52 Septuagint / Brenton

and after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifice of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all holy feasts.

1 Esdras 5:55 Septuagint / Brenton

Unto them of Sidon also and Tyre they gave carts, that they should bring cedar trees from Lebanon, which should be brought by floats to the haven of Joppa, according as it was commanded them by Cyrus king of the Persians.

Usage Excerpts

First 34 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3561.

Exodus 40:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On the first day of the first month, at the new moon, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of witness,
Exodus 40:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year after their going forth out of Egypt, at the new moon, that the tabernacle was set up.
Numbers 10:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall sound with the trumpets at your whole burnt offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 28:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And at the new moons ye shall bring a whole burnt offering to the Lord, two calves of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish.
Numbers 29:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Beside the whole burnt offerings for the new moon, and their meat offerings, and their drink offerings, and their perpetual whole burnt offering; and their meat offerings and their drink offerings according to their ordinance for a sweet-smelling savor to the Lord.
1 Kingdoms 20:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I shall not on any account sit down to eat, but thou shalt let me go, and I will hide in the plain till the evening.
1 Kingdoms 20:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jonathan said, Tomorrow is the new moon, and thou wilt be inquired for, because thy seat will be observed as vacant.
4 Kingdoms 4:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Why art thou going to him today? It is neither new moon, nor the Sabbath. And she said, It is well.
1 Chronicles 23:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and to be over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order given to them, continually before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, I also his son am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn incense before him, and to offer showbread continually, and to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual statute for Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah began on the first day, even on the new moon of the first month, to purify, and on the eighth day of the month they entered into the temple of the Lord: and they purified the house of the Lord in eight days; and on the thirteenth day of the first month they finished the work.
2 Chronicles 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king’s proportion out of his substance was appointed for the whole burnt offerings, the morning and the evening one, and the whole burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the feasts that were ordered in the law of the Lord.
Ezra 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
Nehemiah 10:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
Psalms 80:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, In the glorious day of your feast.
Isaiah 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day;
Isaiah 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
your fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.
Ezekiel 23:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
drink thou it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 45:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And through the prince shall be offered the whole burnt offerings and the meat offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the Sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin offerings, and the meat offering, and the whole burnt offerings, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 46:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God; The gate that is in the inner court, that looks eastward, shall be shut the six working days; but let it be opened on the Sabbath day, and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.
Ezekiel 46:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate, both on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, before the Lord.
Ezekiel 46:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the day of the new moon a calf without blemish, and six lambs, and there shall be a ram without blemish;
Hosea 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Colossians 2:16 New Testament, KJV
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
1 Esdras 5:51 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:
1 Esdras 5:52 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifice of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all holy feasts.
1 Esdras 5:55 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Unto them of Sidon also and Tyre they gave carts, that they should bring cedar trees from Lebanon, which should be brought by floats to the haven of Joppa, according as it was commanded them by Cyrus king of the Persians.
1 Esdras 8:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon in the first day of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave to him.
1 Esdras 9:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ezra the priest chose unto him the principal men of their families, all by name: and in the first day of the tenth month they sat together to examine the matter.
1 Esdras 9:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end in the first day of the first month.
1 Esdras 9:37 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priests and Levites, and they that were of Israel, dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the country, in the first day of the seventh month: so the children of Israel were in their habitations.
1 Esdras 9:40 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So Ezra the chief priest brought the law to the whole multitude from man to woman, and to all the priests, to hear the law in the first day of the seventh month.
Judith 8:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of the Sabbaths, and the Sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the new moons, and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.
1 Maccabees 10:34 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Furthermore I will that all the feasts, and Sabbaths, and new moons, and solemn days, and the three days before the feast, and the three days after the feast, shall be all days of immunity and freedom for all the Jews in my realm.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3561, grouped by book.

Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 8 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3561 FAQ

What does noumenia (νουμηνία) mean?

Noumenia (Strong's G3561) is a Greek word most simply glossed "new moon". noumenia (nou-may-nee'-ah) n. 1. the festival of new moon [feminine of a compound of G3501 and G3376 (as noun by implication, of G2250)]

How many times is noumenia (νουμηνία) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 34 linked usages for Strong's G3561 across 16 books.

Where can I study noumenia (νουμηνία) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3561 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate noumenia (νουμηνία)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as new. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3561 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 23 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3561, with linked reader references where each row is available.