Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Nympha, Tryphon, and Respicius Martyrs whose feast is observed in the Latin Church on 10 November. Tryphon is said to have been born at Kampsade in Phrygia and as a boy took care of geese. During the Decian persecution he was taken to Nicfa about the year 250 and put to death in a horrible … Continue reading “Nympha, Tryphon, and Respicius”

Nympha Nymphas In Col 4:15 (Authorized Version ) we read, Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea and Nymphas and the church in his house. The proper name is found in the accusative case , and may be masculine () or feminine (). The feminine form is Doric for , and Lightfoot (Colossians, p. 242) … Continue reading “Nympha Nymphas”

Nympha NYMPHA(S).Aninfluential Colossian Christian (Col 4:16). His house was used as a meeting-place for Christians. The question of the correct reading is a difficult one, and it is uncertain whether it should be Nymphas or Nympha, a man or a woman. Nothing further is known of the person named. Morley Stevenson. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of … Continue reading “Nympha”

Nym Phas Nym ‘Phas. (bridegroom). A wealthy and zealous Christian, in Laodicea. Col 4:15. (A.D. 60). Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Nyeri, Kenya, archdiocese of Founded as the Mission “Sui Iuris” of Kenya on 14 September 1905. Elevated to the vicariate apostolic of Kenya on 12 July 1909 and entrusted to the Foreign Missionaries of Turin. Name changed on 10 March 1926 to the vicariate apostolic of Nyeri. Elevated to the diocese of Nyeri on 25 … Continue reading “Nyeri, Kenya, archdiocese of”

Nye, Philip an English theologian, was born about 1596, in Sussex. He studied at Oxford. entered the Church, and was at first settled at St. Michael, and later at St. Bartholomew’s, London, where he was very popular as a pulpit orator. Having ventured to oppose the doctrines of the Established Church, he was obliged to … Continue reading “Nye, Philip”

Nyder, Johannes a celebrated Dominican, who flourished during the Hussite Reformation, is noted as one of the embassy selected by the Council of Basle to debate at Egra, in Bohemia, the case of the Hussites. But little is known of his personal history. but in the excited period of ecclesiastical strife in which he flourished … Continue reading “Nyder, Johannes”

Nyctelia (), the name given to the festivals of the ancient Greeks observed in. honor of Bacchus, were so called, from , because the sacrifice and other ceremonies were performed in the night. These feasts were celebrated every three years in the beginning of spring, with lighted torches, drinking, and the worst of impurities, for … Continue reading “Nyctelia”

Nyctages (from or , to nasp) is the name which was given in the early Church to those who repudiated the night hours of prayer on the ground that as the day is divinely ordained for work, so the night is equally ordained for sleep and rest (Isidore, De Haeres. lxiv; Paulus, De Haeres. lii; … Continue reading “Nyctages”

Nyaya (from the Sanscrit ni, into, and aya, going, a derivative from in, to go, hence literally. entering, and figuratively investigating analytically) is the name. of one of the three great systemts of ancient Hindfi philosophy. SEE HINDUISM. There are, it is true, six- systems of Hindu philosophy, viz. The Nyaya, Vaiseshika (q.v.), Sankhya (q.v.), … Continue reading “Nyaya”