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1.
(
)
, 3376), connected with
, “the moon,” akin to a Sanskrit root
I
,
“to measure” (the Sanskrit
denotes both moon and month, cf, e.g., Lat.
,
Eng., “moon” and “month,” the moon being in early times the measure of the “month”).
The interval between the 17th day of the second “month” (Gen. 7:11) and the 17th day of
the seventh “month,” is said to be 150 days (8:3, 4), i.e., five months of 30 days each;
hence the year would be 360 days (cf. Dan. 7:25; 9:27; 12:7 with Rev. 11:2-3; 12:6, 14;
13:5; whence we conclude that 3 1/2 years or 42 months = 1260 days, i.e., one year = 60
days); this was the length of the old Egyptian year; later, five days were added to
correspond to the solar year. The Hebrew year was as nearly solar as was compatible with
its commencement, coinciding with the new moon, or first day of the “month.” This was
a regular feast day, Num. 10:10; 28:11-14; the Passover coincided with the full moon (the
14th of the month Abib: see
PASSOVER
).
Except in Gal. 4:10; Jas. 5:17; Rev. 9:5, 10, 15; 11:2; 13:5; 22:2, the word is found
only in Luke’s writings, Luke 1:24, 26, 36, 56; 4:25; Acts 7:20; 18:11; 19:8; 20:3; 28:11,
examples of Luke’s care as to accuracy of detail.¶
2.
(
$&
, 5150**), an adjective, denoting “of three months” ( , “for”
, “three,” and No. 1), is used as a noun, a space of three “months,” in Heb. 11:23.¶
3.
(
$1
, 5072**), an adjective, denoting of four “months” (
,
for
, “four,” and No. 1), is used as a noun in John 4:35 (where
, “time,”
may be understood).¶
MOON
1.
(
)
, 4582), from
, “brightness” (the Heb. words are
,
“wandering,” and
, “white”), occurs in Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25;
Acts 2:20; 1 Cor. 15:41; Rev. 6:12; 8:12; 12:1; 21:23. In Rev. 12:1, “the moon under her
feet” is suggestive of derived authority, just as her being clothed with the sun is
suggestive of supreme authority, everything in the symbolism of the passage centers in
Israel. In 6:12 the similar symbolism of the sun and “moon” is suggestive of the supreme
authority over the world, and of derived authority, at the time of the execution of divine
judgments upon nations at the close of the present age.¶
2.
(
&
, 3561), or
$ $
, denoting “a new moon” (
, “new,”
, “a month”: see
MONTH
), is used in Col. 2:16, of a Jewish festival.¶ Judaistic
tradition added special features in the liturgy of the synagogue in connection with the
observance of the first day of the month, the new “moon” time.
In the OT the
RV
has “new moon” for
KJV
, “month” in Num. 29:6; 1 Sam. 20:27; Hos.
5:7. For the connection with feast days see Lev. 23:24; Num. 10:10; 29:1; Ps. 81:3.
For
MOOR
see
DRAW
, B,
Note
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** Differing gender, number, or verb forms (for instance, infinitive or participle) of other
words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a double asterisk (for instance,
, from
, is 3798**).