Original Word: νομή, ῆς, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: nomé
Phonetic Spelling: (nom-ay')
Short Definition: pasturage, growth
Definition: (a) pasture, pasturage, (b) met: growth, increase.STRONGS NT 3542: νομή

νομή, νομῆς, ἡ (νέμω to pasture), from Homer (i. e. batrach.) down;

1. pasturage, fodder, food: in figurative discourse εὑρήσει νομήν, i. e. he shall not want the needful supplies for the true life, John 10:9; (the Sept. for מִרְעֶה, מַרְעִית, נָוֶה).

2. tropically, growth, increase (German Umsicbfressen, Umsichgreifen): of evils spreading like a gangrene, 2 Timothy 2:17 (of ulcers, νομήν ποιεῖται ἕλκος, Polybius 1, 81, 6; of a conflagration, τό πῦρ λαμβάνει νομήν, 11, 4 (5), 4 cf. 1, 48, 5; Josephus, b. j. 6, 2, 9).

feeding, pasture.

Feminine from the same as nomos; pasture, i.e. (the act) feeding (figuratively, spreading of a gangrene), or (the food) pasturage -- X eat, pasture.

see GREEK nomos

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