noun · feminine
nossias
Greekνοσσιά (nossia)
Strong’sG3555
a brood of young birds
stem nossi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
νοσσιά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< νοσσός), late form of cl., νεοσσιά, [in LXX chiefly for קֵן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3555 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnos-see-ah'
a brood (of chickens)
Fromfrom G3502;
King Jamesbrood.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nossias | nossiais |
| object accusative | nossian1×νοσσιὰν | nossiain |
| direct address vocative | nossiar | nossiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nossiau | nossiaiu |
| to, for dative | nossia | nossiai |
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
nossia 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
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
nossian“brood”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 13:34“brood”Ierousalēm Ierousalēm, tar apokteinarōtar toin profētoin kai lithobolarōtar toin apostelirētoin pros autan posakis thelama episunagara teim tekneim su hon tropon ornias tan heautau nossian hupo tain pteruxain, kai ouk thelava.O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!