◄ 3509. nephos ►
Strong's Lexicon nephos: Cloud Original Word: νέφος Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: nephos Pronunciation: NEH-fos Phonetic Spelling: (nef'-os) Definition: Cloud Meaning: a cloud; met: a dense crowd, a multitude, great company. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin a prim. word Definition a mass of clouds, a cloud NASB Translation cloud (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3509: νέφος νέφος, νέφους (allied with Latinnubes, nebula, etc.), τό, the Sept. for עָב and עָנָן, a cloud; in the N. T. once tropically, a large, dense multitude, a throng: μαρτύρων, Hebrews 12:1; often so in secular authors, as νεφῶν Τροωον, πεζῶν, ψαρων, κολοιων, Homer, Iliad 4, 274; 16, 66; 17, 755; 23, 133; ἀνθρώπων, Herodotus 8, 109; στρουθῶν, Aristophanes av. 578; ἀκρίδων, Diodorus 3, 29; peditum equitumque nubes, Livy 35, 49. [SYNONYMS: νέφος, νεφέλη: νέφος is general, νεφέλη specific; the former denotes the great, shapeless collection of vapor obscuring the heavens; the latter designates particular and definite masses of the same, suggesting form and limit. Cf. Schmidt vol. i., chapter 36.] Strong's Exhaustive Concordance cloud. Apparently a primary word; a cloud -- cloud. Forms and Transliterations νεφέλης νέφη νεφος νέφος νέφους νεφών nephos néphos Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Hebrews 12:1 N-ANS GRK: περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων ὄγκον NAS: so great a cloud of witnesses KJV: with so great a cloud of witnesses, INT: encompassing us a cloud of witnesses weight Strong's Greek 3509 1 Occurrence νέφος — 1 Occ.