Two nomina sacra are highlighted, ΙΥ and ΘΥ, representing of/from Jesus and of/from God (as these are genitives) respectively, in this passage from John 1 in Codex Vaticanus (B), 4th century.
In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: nomen sacrum from Latin sacred name) is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A nomen sacrum consists of two or more letters from the original word spanned by an overline.
Biblical scholar and textual critic Bruce M. Metzger lists 15 such words treated as nomina sacra from Greek papyri: the Greek counterparts of God, Lord, Jesus, Christ, Son, Spirit, David, Cross, Mother, Father, Israel, Savior, Man, Jerusalem, and Heaven.[1]: 36–37 These nomina sacra are all found in Greek manuscripts of the 3rd century and earlier, except Mother, which appears in the 4th. All 15 occur in Greek manuscripts later than the 4th century.[2]
Nomina sacra also occur in some form in Latin, Coptic, Armenian (indicated by the pativ), Gothic, Old Nubian, Old Irish and Cyrillic (indicated by the titlo).
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^Comfort, Philip Wesley; Barrett, David (2001). Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (2 ed.). Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 34–35. ISBN 0-8423-5265-1.
In Christian scribal practice, nominasacra (singular: nomen sacrum from Latin sacred name) is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine...
𝔓46 uses an extensive and well-developed system of nominasacra. It contains the following nominasacra in abbreviated form (nominative case): ΚΣ (κυριος...
century the origin of the same nominasacra, omitting only πνεῦμα. Michael J. Kruger says that, for the nominasacra convention to be so widespread as...
homoeoteleuton. The fragment should have the word πατήρ contracted (nominasacra) in two places, but instead, lacuane. List of New Testament papyri Philip...
Rylands Gr 457) and the NominaSacra; Method and Probability, Tyndale Bulletin 54.1, 2003 Christopher M. Tuckett, P52 and NominaSacra, New Testament Studies...
Seminary Harmonia Sacra, a Mennonite shape note hymn and tune book Isola Sacra, an island in the Lazio region of Italy south of Rome Nominasacra, the tradition...
visible distinctions may include: less frequent use of abbreviations in "nominasacra"; treating digraph ⟨оу⟩ as a single character rather than two letters...
Another method employed was to abbreviate frequent words, such as the nominasacra. Yet another method involved the palimpsest, a manuscript which recycled...
Patriarchates (as in codices 69 and 211), of which one page is lost.: 27 The nominasacra are contracted in the usual way, but there are a number of words which...
instead of ΠΙΛΑΤΟΣ, ΦΑΡΕΙΣΑΙΟΙ instead of ΦΑΡΙΣΑΙΟΙ, etc.: 74 ff, 93–94 Nominasacra with overlines are employed throughout. Some words usually abbreviated...
21st Century Edition and Biblehub's King James Purple Letter Edition. Nominasacra – Christian scribal practice Retskrivningsreformen af den 22. marts 1948...
by contraction and was mostly a Christian usage for sacred words, or NominaSacra; non-Christian sigla usage usually limited the number of letters the...
Sophia. The medallions on both sides of the Virgin's head carry the nominasacra MP and ΘΥ, abbreviations of the Greek: Μήτηρ του Θεοῦ, romanized: Mētēr...
Vienna papyrus is written in Greek. The scribe did not use abbreviated nominasacra, which may indicate that he was Jewish. It is unclear, however, which...
entirely if they could be inferred from the rest of the text. So-called nominasacra ('sacred names') were used in many Greek biblical manuscripts. The common...
used within the lines themselves.: 114 It employs the use of numerous nominasacra (special names/words considered sacred in Christianity - usually the...
to have contained roughly 236 pages.: 1:901 The manuscripts employ nominasacra, special abbreviations for names/words considered sacred in Christianity...
the word "Holy" embroidered three times on it in large letters, using nominasacra where customary, in reference to the Trisagion. In modern Greek Orthodox...
of the Holy Name of Jesus was introduced in 1530. The veneration of Nominasacra in the form of variants of the Christogram has a tradition going back...
reception history of Aquila's translation among Jews or to the use of nominasacra by Jews. In an article focused on the topic, Edmon L. Gallagher concludes...
the author and recipient were of the upper class) uses the Christian nominasacra and the Biblical Greek: ἐν κυρίῳ, romanized: en kyrίōi, lit. 'in the...
symbolism Holy Name of Jesus INRI Little Sachet Names and titles of Jesus Nominasacra The portmanteau of Christo- and -gramma is modern, first introduced in...
are not equal. Though the text is very small, it contains two of the nominasacra: ΙΣ and ΜΗΙ (dative case from ΜΗΡ). Above letter iota two dots (diaeresis)...
360) in Sydney. 2:31: omits του χρυ (of the Christ/Messiah (χρυ being a NominaSacra)). 2:32: According to the reconstruction of Philip Comfort and David...
out in "performed by evil angels" in Psalm 77. This corresponds to the Nominasacra (Latin: "Sacred names") tradition of using contractions for certain frequently...
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