noun · masculine
nossos
Strong’sG3502
a young bird, young one
stem noss-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.
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Attic dialect νεοττ-, ὁ, (νέος) young bird, nestling, chick, NT+8th c.BC+
2 any young animal, as a young crocodile, Refs 5th c.BC+; of young children, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, young bees, Refs 5th c.BC+; Ἄρεως ν., of the cock, Refs 5th c.BC+ (also ironically, of a person, Refs 5th c.BC+ the horse's brood, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 yolk of an egg, Refs 4th c.BC+; compare νεοττίον.—The disyllable form νοσσός is cited in Refs 5th c.BC+ (b) fragment 3: this and cognate forms (commonly found in later Gr.) are condemned as ἀδόκιμα by Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
nossoin“young”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 2:24… nomo kuriou, zeugem trugōnaiu ē duo nossoin peristeraiu.… A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”