nefem

Strong’sG3509

a cloud, multitude, great company

stem nef-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.

νέφος, -ους, τό,

[in LXX for עָב, שַׁחַק, עָנָן;]

a mass of clouds, a cloud (cf. νεφέλη); metaph. (as in Hom., Hdt., al.), of a dense throng: He 12:1.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3509 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidnef'-os

a cloud

Fromapparently a primary word;

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, εος, τό,
cloud, mass of clouds, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 metaphorically Refs 8th c.BC+; σκότου ν., of blindness, Refs 5th c.BC+; ν. οἰμωγῆς, στεναγμῶν, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀφρύων ν. a cloud upon the brow, Refs 4th c.BC+
II metaphorically, also, a cloud of men, etc., ν. πεζῶν, Τρώων, Refs 8th c.BC+; ψαρῶν, κολοιῶν,Refs 5th c.BC+; πενεστάων ν.NT; πολέμοιο ν. the cloud of battle, thick of the fight, Refs 8th c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskrit nábhas 'fog', 'cloud', Slavonic nebo 'heaven', Latin nebula.)

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.

cloud1×

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 or object direct	nefem	nefeim
of, belonging to genitive	nefeu	nefeiu
to, for dative	nefe	nefei

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

nefstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

nefe 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

nefem1×

Hebrews 12:1… kai nis, tosoutem echarōntois perikeiorōntem ni nefem marturoiu, onkon apotitherantois panton kai tan …… are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off …