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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

young

What it means

νοσσός (νεοσσός, Rec., as in cl. Att. -ττός; Phryn. rejects the dissyl. form), -οῦ, ὁ

(< νέος), [in LXX chiefly for בֵּן;]

a young bird: Lk 2:24(LXX).†

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativenossosnossois
object accusativenossonnossoinνοσσοὺς
direct address vocativenossornossoir
of, belonging to genitivenossounossoiu
to, for dativenossonossoi

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
nossstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

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 plural

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.”