Definition

the festival of new moon

Etymology

feminine of a compound of G3501 (νέος) and G3376 (μήν) (as noun by implication, of G2250 (ἡμέρα));

Where the KJV renders it

• new moon

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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