noun · feminine
homichlas
Strong’sG3507
mist
stem homichl-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὁμίχλη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX for עֲרָפֶל, etc.;]
SYN.: νέφος, νεφέλη, both thicker than ὁ.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3507 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnef-el'-ay
properly, cloudiness, i.e. (concretely) a cloud
Fromfrom G3509;
King Jamescloud.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(νέφος) cloud, mass of clouds (distinguished from ὁμίχλη, mist or fog, Refs 8th c.BC+; ν. κυανέη, πορφυρέη, Refs 8th c.BC+—Mostly poetry, but found in Refs 5th c.BC+ [same places], and in late Prose, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 metaphorically, νεφέλη δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψε κυανέη, of death, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὸν δ᾽ ἄχεος νεφέλη ἐκάλυψε μέλαινα a cloud of sorrow,Refs 5th c.BC+; Κενταύρου φονίᾳ νεφέλᾳ, i.e. with his blood, Refs 5th c.BC+; κελαινῶπις ν., of sleep, Refs 5th c.BC+
II of clouds in urine, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ={νεφέλιον} 11.2, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 cloud on a mirror, Refs 4th c.BC+
III fine bird-net, in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV Alchem., sublimate, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | homichlas | homichlais1×ὁμίχλαι |
| object accusative | homichlan | homichlain |
| direct address vocative | homichlar | homichlair |
| of, belonging to genitive | homichlau | homichlaiu |
| to, for dative | homichla | homichlai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
homichla is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
homichlais“mists”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Peter 2:17Houtois alō pēgais anudrais kai homichlais hupo lailapau elaunorōntais, hoi tos zofos …… men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness …