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Greek noun (feminine) · G3555

νοσσιά

nossianos-see-ah'

a nest of birds.; a brood of young birds

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nossiá

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3555is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3555

a brood (of chickens)

The King James renders it: brood.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nossia is rendered "a nest of birds.; a brood of young birds". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a nest of birds.".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

The first use

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Luke 13:34νοσσιὰν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a nest of birds., and a brood of young birds.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
a nest of birds.Tagged aslisted under the tableWhereLuke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her…
a brood of young birdsLuk.13:34.† (AS)Tagged as
  • brood1
WhereLuke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

νοσσίονnossionchickUses1

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • νοσσιὰν1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF

Luke

one use
  • O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

    Luke 13:34

    • νοσσιὰνnossiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: brood

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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