noun · masculine
notos
Strong’sG3558
the south wind, the South
stem not-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
νότος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for נֶגֶב, also for דָּרוֹם, תֵּימָן and קָדִים;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3558 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnot'-os
the south(-west) wind; by extension, the southern quarter itself
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamessouth (wind).
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
south wind (opposed to Βορέας, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὅταν μὲν ἐλάττων ᾖ, αἴθριός ἐστιν, ὅταν δὲ μέγας, νεφώδηςRefs
2 N. personified as god of the South wind, Refs 8th c.BC+
II south or south-west quarter, πρὸς μεσαμβρίης τε καὶ νότου NT+5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ νότου with genitive, to the south of, Refs 2nd c.BC+, etc.; later ἐκ νότου with genitive, Refs 3rd c.AD+, etc.: genitive νότου to the south, Refs 2nd c.BC+
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 | notos | notois |
| object accusative | noton1×νότον | notoin |
| direct address vocative | notor | notoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | notou6×νότου | notoiu |
| to, for dative | noto | notoi |
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
noto 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
noton“south wind”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 12:55kai hotan noton pnarōnton, legavō hoti Kausōnos eti, kai …And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be …
notou“south”of, belonging togenitive singular6×
Matthew 12:42basilissas notou egeriti en ta krisia meta tau …The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with …
Luke 11:31basilissas notou egeriti en ta krisia meta toiu …The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with …
Luke 13:29… kai dusmaiu kai apo borrou kai notou kai anaklinili en ta basileia tou …… east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table …
Acts 27:13Hupopnarantou de notou dokarantois tau prothesiau kratarē airarantois asson …When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they …
Acts 28:13… Rēgiem. kai meta henan hēmeran epigenerantou notou deuteraiois erchana eis Potioloin,… to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second …
Revelation 21:13… apo borrou pulōnois treis, kai apo notou pulōnois treis, kai apo dusmaiu pulōnois …… on the north, three on the south, and three on the west.