noun · feminine
nosas
Strong’sG3554
a disease, malady
stem nos-11 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 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.
νόσος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for חֳלִי, etc.;]
SYN.: v.s. ἀσθένεια.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3554 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnos'-os
a malady (rarely figuratively, of moral disability)
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesdisease, infirmity, sickness.
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
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect (not Doric dialect,Refs νοῦσος, ἡ, sickness, disease, plague, νοῦσον ἀνὰ στρατὸν ὦρσε κακήν (i.e. Apollo), ὀλέκοντο δὲ λαοί Refs 8th c.BC+; κάμνειν νόσον, ὑπὸ νόσου, see at {κάμν; ἀσθενεῖν ταύτην τὴν νόσον} Refs 5th c.BC+; θήλεα ν.Refs 2nd c.AD+
II generally, distress, anguish, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 disease of mind, especially caused by madness, passion, vice, etc., ν. φρενῶν Refs 4th c.BC+; θεία ν., i.e. madness, Refs 5th c.BC+; of love, Refs 5th c.BC+; ν. καὶ στάσιν οὐ ταὐτὸν νενόμικα; Refs
II.3 plague, bane, mischief, e.g. a whirlwind is θεία ν. Refs 5th c.BC+; of the trident of Poseidon, Refs 4th c.BC+; πεντεσύριγγος ν., of the pillory, Polyeuct. cited in 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 | nosas | nosais |
| object accusative | nosan3×νόσον | nosain3×νόσους |
| direct address vocative | nosar | nosair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nosau | nosaiu2×νόσων |
| to, for dative | nosa | nosai3×νόσοις |
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
nosa 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
nosan“disease”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 4:23… euangeliem tau basileiau kai therapeuarōntos pantan nosan kai pantan malakian en to lao.… of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Matthew 9:35… euangeliem tau basileiau kai therapeuarōntos pantan nosan kai pantan malakian.… of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness.
Matthew 10:1… hōste ekbalarō auteim kai therapeuarō pantan nosan kai pantan malakian.… drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.
nosain“diseases”objectaccusative plural3×
Matthew 8:17… tain astheniain nu labata kai tain nosain bastazata.… up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
Luke 9:1… exousian epi panteim teim daimoneim kai nosain therapeuarō,… all demons, and power to cure diseases.
Acts 19:12… simikinthieim kai apallaxorō apo autoiu tain nosain, teim tē pneumeim teim ponēreim ekporeuorō.… taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
nosaiu“diseases”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Luke 6:18… akouara autou kai iira apo taiu nosaiu autoiu; kai tois enochlorōntois apo pneumeiu …… and to be healed of their diseases, and those troubled by unclean spirits …
Luke 7:21… ekeina ta hōra therapeuata polloin apo nosaiu kai mastigaiu kai pneumeiu ponēreiu, kai …… Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He …
nosai“diseases”to, fordative plural3×
Matthew 4:24… auto pantoin toin kakōs echarōntoin poikilai nosai kai basanai sunechorōntoin, daimonizorōntoin kai selēniazorōntoin …… all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed …
Mark 1:34kai therapeuata polloin kakōs echarōntoin poikilai nosai, kai daimoneim polleim ekbalata, kai ouk …… many who were ill with various diseases and drove out many demons. But …
Luke 4:40… tou hēliou hapantois hosois echale asthenarōntoin nosai poikilai agala autoin pros auton; tos …… all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying …