Quick Definition
σελήνη, ης, ἡ n.f. the moon
Strong's Definition
from selas (brilliancy; probably akin to the alternate of 138, through the idea of attractiveness); the moon
KJV Usage: moon
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ης | σεληνιάζομαι
1.29 · Geographical Objects and Features · Heavenly Bodies
moon a celestial body smaller than the sun that gives light to earth in the nighttime; the moon’s appearance changes over the course of each month as the angle we can see the moon’s half-illuminated surface changes As in the case of ἥλιος the sun (1.28), there are relatively few difficulties involved in obtaining a satisfactory word for σελήνη ‘the moon,’ though there may also be a tendency to add some kind of honorific or title, for example, ‘mother moon.’ At the same time, certain difficulties may occur in some passages. For example, in LUK 21:25 it may be misleading to speak of signs occurring ‘in the moon,’ for this might mean ‘inside the moon.’ TEV has resolved the problem somewhat by translating “there will be strange things happening to the sun, the moon, and the stars.” One may also translate ‘the sun, the moon, and the stars will cause signs in the heavens’ or ‘... portents in the sky.’
MAT 24:29 · MRK 13:24 · LUK 21:25 · ACT 2:20 · 1CO 15:41 · REV 6:12 · REV 8:12 · REV 12:1 · REV 21:23
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σελήνη, -ης, 7, (fr. σέλας brightness), fr. Hom. down, Hebr. m0, the moon: Mt. xxiv. 29; Mk. xiii. 24; Lk. xxi. 25; Acts ii. 20; 1 Co. xv. 41; Rev. vi. 12; viii. 12; xii. 1; xxi. 23.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σελήνη selēnē 9x
the moon, Mt. 24:29; Mk. 13:24
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σελήνη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for יָרֵחַ (Ge 37:9, al.), also for לְבָנָה; (Ca 6:9 (10), Is 24:23א, 30:26) ;]
the moon: Mt 24:29, Mk 13:24, Lk 21:25, Ac 2:20 (LXX), I Co 15:41, Re 6:12 8:12 12:1 21:23.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σελήνη, “the moon”: P Hib I. 27! (calendar—s.c. 301-240) Xpavt[at] ταῖς κατὰ σελήνηϊν] ἡμέραις οἱ ἀστρολόϊγοι, where the editors think that there isa loose mode of speaking of ‘the days of the month” without any real reference to the moon: see their note. The word occurs in the horoscopes BGU III. 9573 (B.c. 10), PSI IV. 312° (A.D. 345), and in P Ryl I. 63% (iii/a.p.), where, in an imaginary astrological dialogue with Plato, a certain Egyptian prophet connects the moon with the left eye—ZeAjvy ὁ εὐώνυμος. For the moon as the female principle of all physical life see P Osl I. p. 127, and for the importance of the rising moon, see 76. p. 93. Iai J ΡΞ (CHLEs (8:Ὁ: 165} (SSI job ΣΙ8. (07224 xb Joh 5353) mention is made of the festival τὰ DeAnveeta (cf. Mayser Gr. 1. pp. 75, 107, 448), and in the temple inventory BGU I. 1621 (ii/iii A.D.) we hear of ἄλλα σεληνάρια μεικρὰ χρυσᾶ β, by which Preisigke (Wérterb. s.v.) understands golden keys made in the form of a half moon. Hatzidakis (Gr. p. 59) notes that the word σελήνη is not now in popular use, the terms φεγγάρι and τὸ φέγγος taking its place. This does not, however, apply to the derivative σεληνιάζομαι, “am brought under the influence of the moon,” ‘‘am epileptic,” which is found everywhere, cf. ΜῈ 254. TGA
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σελήνη (selēnē) — moon. σελήν-η, ἡ, Doric dialect σελάνα [λᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+], Aeolic dialect σελάννα [Refs 7th c.BC+]; compare also σεληναίη:— the moon, σ. πλήθουσα the full-moon, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; σ. ἀεξομένη, ὀλίγη κεράεσσι, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; a moon's breadth, measure used by early astronomers, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; νουμηνία κατὰ σελήνην, i.e. by the lunar month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς ἡμέρας κατὰ σ. ἄγειν [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πρὸς τὴν σ. ὁρᾶν by moonlight, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐκ τῆς σ. νόσος,= σεληνιασμός, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὴν σ. καθελεῖν, of Thessalian witches, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __b month, δεκάτῃ σελήνῃ in the tenth moon, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολλὰς σ. [Refs]; τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. a moon-shaped wheaten cake, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. a round table, or tripod, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
4. name of a plant, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. as feminine proper name, Selene, the goddess of the moon (never in [Refs 8th c.BC+] (σελάνα, σελάννα) from *σελάσνᾱ, compare σέλας.)