noun · masculine
nefros
Strong’sG3510
a kidney as a general emotional center
stem nefr-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.
νεφρός, -οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX for כִּלְיָה, Ex 29:13, al.; metaph., Ps 7:9 15 (16):7 25 (26):2, Wi 1:6, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3510 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnef-ros'
a kidney (plural), i.e. (figuratively) the inmost mind
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesreins.
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
in plural, kidneys, Refs 5th c.BC+: rarely in singular, LXX+4th c.BC+. (Cf. OHG. nioro 'kidney', Praenest. nefrones, Lanuv. nebrundines 'kidneys', 'testicles'.)
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 | nefros | nefrois |
| object accusative | nefron | nefroin1×νεφροὺς |
| direct address vocative | nefror | nefroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | nefrou | nefroiu |
| to, for dative | nefro | nefroi |
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
nefro 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
nefroin“minds”objectaccusative plural1×
Revelation 2:23… ekklēsais hoti mis amō tos eraunarōntos nefroin kai kardiain, kai dōami vi hekasto …… I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay …