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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

brood

What it means

νοσσιά, -ᾶς, ἡ

(< νοσσός), late form of cl., νεοσσιά, [in LXX chiefly for קֵן;]

1. a nest of birds.
2. a brood of young birds: Lk 13:34.†

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativenossiasnossiais
object accusativenossianνοσσιὰνnossiain
direct address vocativenossiarnossiair
of, belonging to genitivenossiaunossiaiu
to, for dativenossianossiai

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
nossistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

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

nossiem — νοσσίον, a nestling, the young of birds

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

nossian“brood”objectaccusative singular

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!