noun · masculine
nossos
Greekνοσσός (nossos)
Strong’sG3502
a young bird, young one
stem noss-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
νοσσός (νεοσσός, Rec., as in cl. Att. -ττός; Phryn. rejects the dissyl. form), -οῦ, ὁ
(< νέος), [in LXX chiefly for בֵּן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3502 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidneh-os-sos'
a youngling (nestling)
Fromfrom G3501;
King Jamesyoung.
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 | nossos | nossois |
| object accusative | nosson | nossoin1×νοσσοὺς |
| direct address vocative | nossor | nossoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | nossou | nossoiu |
| to, for dative | nosso | nossoi |
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
nosso 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
nossoin“young”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 2:24“young”kai teu dōara thusian kata tem legirētem en to nomo kuriou, zeugem trugōnaiu ē duo nossoin peristeraiu.and to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”