νομή
pasturage
also: fodder, food fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3542 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, νομη (nomḗ) means “pasturage.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to John (50%), then 2 Timothy. First canonically at John 10:9, it enters the text early. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “fodder” and “food”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3542 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Johannine 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Pasture 1×
- American Standard Version: Eat 1×, Pasture 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pasture 1×, Spread 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pasture 1×, Spreading 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3542 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3542 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3542 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3542 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- pasturage, fodder, food
- growth, increase
Word origin
Derived from νομος (nómos) (G3551) — law.
Feminine from the same as G3551 ; pasture that is (the act) feeding (figuratively spreading of a gangrene) or (the food) pasturage : - X eat pasture.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3542, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- νομιζω nomízō G3543 to hold custom
- νομικος nomikós G3544 learned in law
- νομιμως nomímōs G3545 lawfully
- νομοδιδασκαλος nomodidáskalos G3547 law teacher
- νομοθετης nomothétēs G3550 lawgiver
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νομη appears 35 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 16 books.
- 35
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 32
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 47:4 νομή
- 1 Samuel 28:24 νομή
- 1 Chronicles 4:39 νομή
- Job 20:17 νομή
- Psalms 73:1 νομή
- Proverbs 24:15 νομή
- Isaiah 49:9 νομή
- Jeremiah 10:21 νομή
- Lamentations 1:6 νομή
- Ezekiel 25:5 νομή
- Daniel 4:25 νομή
- Hosea 13:6 νομή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3542) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 47:4 νομή They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners 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 dwell in the land of Goshen."
- 1 Samuel 28:24 νομή The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread of it:
- 1 Chronicles 4:39 νομή They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 4:40 νομή They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.
- 1 Chronicles 4:41 νομή These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
- Job 20:17 νομή He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
- Job 39:8 νομή The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
- Psalms 73:1 νομή Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart.
- Psalms 78:13 νομή He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.
- Psalms 94:7 νομή They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."
- Psalms 99:3 νομή Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!
- Proverbs 24:15 νομή Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
- Isaiah 49:9 νομή saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
- Jeremiah 10:21 νομή For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
- Jeremiah 10:25 νομή Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
- Jeremiah 23:1 νομή Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:3 νομή I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
- Jeremiah 23:10 νομή For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
- Jeremiah 27:7 νομή All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
- Jeremiah 27:19 νομή For thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
- Jeremiah 27:45 νομή
- Lamentations 1:6 νομή From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, They are gone without strength before the pursuer.
- Ezekiel 25:5 νομή I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 34:14 νομή I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.
- Ezekiel 34:18 νομή Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?
- Daniel 4:25 νομή that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will.
- Hosea 13:6 νομή According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- Joel 1:18 νομή How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- Amos 1:2 νομή He said: "Yahweh will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; And the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, And the top of Carmel will wither."
- Nahum 2:12 νομή The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
- Zephaniah 2:6 νομή The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
- Zephaniah 2:15 νομή This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3542) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
