noun oor Xhosa

noun

/naʊn/ werkwoord, naamwoord

(grammar) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

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Isibizo

part of speech in grammar denoting a figurative or real thing or person

The Hebrew noun rendered “sprout” refers to ‘that which springs up, a shoot, a branch.’
Isibizo sesiHebhere esiguqulelwe ngokuthi “ihlumelo” sibhekisela ‘kwinto ehlumayo, ikhaba, isebe.’

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It comes from a noun (kho·re·gosʹ) that literally means “the leader of a chorus.”
Livela kwisibizo esithi (kho·re·gosʹ) ngokoqobo esithetha “umbhexeshi weqela lomculo.”

At John 1:1 there are two occurrences of the Greek noun the·osʹ (god).
KuYohane 1:1 sivela kabini isibizo sesiGrike uthe·osʹ (uthixo).

Bible writers often apply to God the Hebrew noun (ʽeʹzer) rendered “helper.”
Izihlandlo ezininzi ababhali beBhayibhile basisebenzisa kuThixo isibizo sesiHebhere (ʽeʹzer) esiguqulelwe ngokuthi “umncedi.”

(John 1:42) “Cephas” is a common noun meaning “stone,” or “rock.”
(Yohane 1:42) “UKefas” sisibizo esithetha “ilitye,” okanye “ulwalwa.”

This insertion of the article in the translation brings out the characteristic or quality of the noun.
Oku kufakelwa kwearticle kumsebenzi oguqulelweyo kucacisa uphawu lwesibizo.

The Greek noun for “endurance” (hy·po·mo·neʹ) occurs over 30 times.
Isibizo sesiGrike esithetha “unyamezelo” (hy·po·mo·neʹ) sivela izihlandlo ezingaphezu kwama-30.

* See also Authority; Choose, Chose, Chosen (verb); Chosen (adjective or noun); Ordain, Ordination; Steward, Stewardship
* Khangela kanjalo Bugosa, Gosa; Gunya; Khetha, Khethiwe, Wakhetha; Khethiweyo; Misela, Ummiselo

It is derived from the noun cheʹsedh, which is frequently translated “loving-kindness,” “loyal love,” “kindness,” “goodness,” “mercy.”
Lisuka kwisibizo esithi cheʹsedh, esidla ngokuguqulelwa ngokuthi “ububele bothando,” “uthando olunyanisekileyo,” “ububele,” “ukulunga,” “inceba.”

For example, in the Kele language, about 130 nouns have the same tone pattern (high-high) as sango (father).
Ngokomzekelo, kulwimi lwesiKele, zimalunga ne-130 izibizo ezibizwa ngemvakalo-zwi efanayo (ephakame ngokufanayo) njengosango (utata).

19 The apostles in their question and Jesus in his reply may have used this noun bi·ʼah.
19 Kumbuzo wabo nakwimpendulo yakhe, abapostile noYesu basenokuba basebenzisa isibizo esithi bi·ʼahʹ.

Interestingly, translators that insist on rendering John 1:1, “The Word was God,” do not hesitate to use the indefinite article (a, an) in their rendering of other passages where a singular anarthrous predicate noun occurs before the verb.
Okubangel’ umdla kukuba abaguquleli abagxininisa kwelokuba inguqulelo kaYohane 1:1 ithi, “ULizwi wayenguThixo,” abathandabuzi ekusebenziseni i-indefinite article (a, an) kwinguqulelo yabo yezinye izicatshulwa apho isibizo esikwisinye esikwimo yentsusa esingahlonyelelwanga sibakho phambi kwesenzi.

Texts in which the plural form of nouns is applied to God in the Hebrew Scriptures
Izibhalo ekuthi kuzo kusetyenziswe izibizo ezikwisininzi zibhekiswe kuThixo kwiZibhalo zesiHebhere

4 The Greek noun for “godly devotion” (eu·seʹbei·a) may be translated literally as “well-reverencing.”
4 Isibizo sesiGrike esithi “ukuhlonel’ uThixo” (eu·seʹbei·a) sisenokuguqulelwa ngokufanelekileyo ngokuthi “ukoyika ngendlela efanelekileyo.”

Concerning the Greek noun for “endurance,” one reference work says: “It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope . . .
Xa ithetha ngesibizo sesiGrike esithi “unyamezelo,” enye incwadi ithi: “Ngumoya wokuthwala izinto, kungekuba uncamile, kodwa kuba unethemba lokwenene . . .

This noun comes from a word used to express sorrow at the suffering of another.
Esi sibizo sisuka kwigama elisetyenziselwa ukuchaza intlungu ngokubandezeleka komnye umntu.

The articular (when the article appears) construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous (without the article) predicate noun before the verb (as the sentence is constructed in Greek) points to a quality about someone.
Xa kubonakala iarticle kwisibizo oko kuthetha ukuba elo ligama lomntu, ngoxa xa isibizo sikwisinye yaye singenayo iarticle ibe singaphambi kwesenzi (njengoko esi sivakalisi sakhiwe njalo kwisiGrike) kubonisa ukuba olo luphawu olungothile.

Both the noun and the verb stauroō, to fasten to a stake or pale, are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross.”
Isibizo nesenzo istauroō, elithetha ukubophelela esibondeni, ntlandlolo zazohlukile kumnqamlezo onezibonda ezibini ezinqamlezileyo.”

(Ephesians 6:4) The Greek noun translated “discipline” means “upbringing, training, instruction.”
(Efese 6:4) Isibizo sesiGrike esiguqulelwe ngokuthi “ingqeqesho” sithetha “ukukhulisa, ukuqeqesha, ukufundisa.”

Vine says: “The exercises of [the noun pra·yʹtes] are first and chiefly towards God.
Vine uthi: “[isibizo esithi pra·yʹtes] okokuqala nangokuyintloko sisetyenziswa kuThixo.

“Anomia is disregard for, or defiance of, God’s laws; asebeia [noun form of the word rendered ‘ungodly people’] is the same attitude toward God’s Person.” —Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, Volume 4, page 170.
“Uanomia uthetha ukungayikhathaleli, okanye ukungayihloneli imithetho kaThixo; uasebeia [okwimo yesibizo segama eliguqulelwe ngokuthi ‘abantu abangahloneli Thixo’] kukuba nesimo sengqondo esifanayo ngakwiSiqu esinguThixo.”—IVine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, Umqulu 4, iphepha 170.

(Psalm 18:25, footnote) The noun cheʹsedh contains the thought of kindness that lovingly attaches itself to an object until its purpose in connection therewith is realized.
(INdumiso 18:25, umbhalo osemazantsi weNW) Isibizo esingucheʹsedh siquka ingcamango yobubele obuthi ngokunothando buzinamathelise entweni ethile de injongo yaloo nto izalisekiswe.

The Greek noun rendered “honor” means “price, value, . . . respect.”
Igama lesiGrike eliguqulelwe ngokuthi “imbeko” lithetha “ixabiso, ukuxabiseka, . . . intlonelo.”

Instead, it uses the related noun bi·ʼahʹ.
Kunoko, usebenzisa isibizo esibufana naso esithi bi·ʼahʹ.

Winer writes: “The pronoun [houʹtos] sometimes refers, not to the noun locally nearest, but to one more remote, which, as the principal subject, was mentally the nearest, the most present to the writer’s thoughts.” —A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament, 7th edition, 1897.
Winer ubhala esithi: “Maxa wambi isimelabizo esithi [houʹtos] sibhekisela kungekhona kwesona sibizo sikufutshane, kodwa sibhekisela kwesona sikude, esithe, ngenxa yokuba singumbandela oyintloko ekuthethwa ngawo, engqondweni saba sesona sikufutshane, esona sinkenteza kwiingcinga zombhali.”—A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament, uhlelo 7, 1897.

Mish·lehʹ is the plural number, construct state, of the Hebrew noun ma·shalʹ, which noun is generally thought to be derived from a root word meaning “be like” or “be comparable.”
Igama elithi mish·lehʹ lisisininzi, imo eyakhiwe kwisibizo sesiHebhere esithi ma·shalʹ, sibizo eso ngokuqhelekileyo ekucingwa ukuba sivela kwingcambu yegama elithetha “ukufanisa” okanye “ukuthelekisa.”