"new moon, first of the month, Col. 2:16*"
Definition and meaning
new moon, first of the month, Col. 2:16*
In the original Greek the word is written: νεομηνία
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of neomenia (G3500) across the King James Bible.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
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Common questions
Strong's G3500 (neomenia) is a Greek word that means: new moon, first of the month, Col. 2:16* It appears 2 times in the King James Bible.
The word neomenia (G3500) appears 2 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G3500 is neomenia, a Greek word defined as: new moon, first of the month, Col. 2:16*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
neomenia is a Greek word found in the New Testament.