nōtos

Strong’sG3577

the back of men or animals

stem nōt-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.

νῶτος, -ου, ὁ,

in Att. most freq. τὸ νῶτον, and in pl. always τὰ νῶτα, [in LXX, ὁ ν., pl., οἱ νῶτοι, and τὰ νῶτα, chiefly for כָּתֵף, also for עֹרֶף, מָתְנַיִם;]

the back: Ro 11:10(LXX).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3577 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidno'-tos

the back

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jamesback.

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

νῶτον, τό,
or νῶτος, ὁ, plural always νῶτα, τά in early writers (οἱ νῶτοι LXX: the gender of thesg. is undetermined in Refs 8th c.BC+, and always in Attic dialect accusative to Refs 2nd c.AD+ is masculine in Refs 5th c.BC+ (as cited by Hdn.Gr.Refs 4th c.BC+:—back, both cf men and animals: singular, of a man, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a boar, φρίσσεινῶτονRefs; of horses, ἐπὶ νῶτον ἐῗσαι Refs; of an eagle, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural frequently used in Poets in sense of singular, δράκων ἐπὶ νῶτα δαφοινός Refs 8th c.BC+: sometimes in Epic dialect of the chine of an animal served as food, νῶτα βοὸς.. πίοναRefs 8th c.BC+; of men in battle, τὰ νῶτα ἐντρέψαι to turn the back, i.e. flee, Refs 5th c.BC+; νῶτον ἐπιστρέψαιRefs 2nd c.BC+; δοτέον τὰ ν. Refs 1st c.AD+ (this phrase also of the winner in a race, Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ νώτου in rear, κατὰ νώτου γενέσθαι τινός Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ στρατόπεδον κατὰ ν. λαβεῖνRefs 5th c.BC+; back of the finger, Refs 6th c.AD+
II metaphorically, any wide surface, especially of the sea, ἐπ᾽ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης Refs 8th c.BC+; also of the land, σχίζε ν. γᾶς Refs 5th c.BC+; of the sky, ἀστεροειδέα ν. αἰθέρος Refs 5th c.BC+; but ἕσπερα ν. the evening, i.e. western, sky, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ridge of a hill or rock, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a tomb, Refs; of a chariot, Refs; of a saw, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 nave of a wheel, Refs
II.4 back of a page, 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.

backs1×

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	nōtos	nōtois
object accusative	nōton1×νῶτον	nōtoin
direct address vocative	nōtor	nōtoir
of, belonging to genitive	nōtou	nōtoiu
to, for dative	nōto	nōtoi

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

nōtstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

nōto 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

nōton“backs”objectaccusative singular1×

Romans 11:10… autoiu teu mē bleparō, kai ton nōton autoiu dia pantou sunkamptasar.… so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”