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Strong's #3565: numphe (pronounced noom-fay')

from a primary but obsolete verb nupto (to veil as a bride; compare Latin "nupto," to marry); a young married woman (as veiled), including a betrothed girl; by implication, a son's wife:--bride, daughter in law.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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numphē

1) a betrothed woman, a bride

2) a recently married woman, young wife

3) a young woman

4) a daughter-in-law

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from a primary but obsolete verb nupto (to veil as a bride, compare Latin "nupto," to marry)

Citing in TDNT: 4:1099, 657




Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Matthew 10:35: "against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Luke 12:53: "the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her"
Luke 12:53: "her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law."
John 3:29: "He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend"
Revelation 18:23: "and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all"
Revelation 21:2: "heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
Revelation 21:9: "I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife."
Revelation 22:17: "Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth"









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