noun · feminine
ornias
Strong’sG3733
a bird, fowl, hen
stem orni-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
ὄρνις, -ιθος, ὁ, ἡ,
[in LXX: ὄ. ἐκλεκταί, III Ki 3:1 4:23 (5:3) (בַּרְבֻּרִים)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3733 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidor'-nis
a bird (as rising in the air), i.e. (specially), a hen (or female domestic fowl)
Fromprobably from a prolonged form of the base of G3735;
King Jameshen.
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
also ἡ Refs 8th c.BC+; genitive ὄρνῑθο; accusative singular ὄρνῑθα and ὄρνιν, neither in Refs 8th c.BC+:—also ὄρνιξ, NT+3rd c.BC+, called Ionic dialect and Doric dialect by Refs 7th c.BC+; accusative ὄρνῑχα Refs 7th c.BC+; dative ὄρνιξι, ὀρνίχεσσι, Refs 5th c.BC+: on the gender and declension, see Refs 2nd c.AD+ Gothic ara, genitive arins 'eagle', etc.) [In the trisyllable cases ῑ always: Refs 8th c.BC+; and later Epic dialect use both ὄρνῑς and ὄρνῐς: in Trag. both quantities are found, ὄρνῐς in Refs 5th c.BC+; are borrowed from Sophocles; ὄρνῑς is said to be Attic dialect, Refs
I bird, including birds of prey and domestic fowls, Refs 8th c.BC+; applied to ostriches, Refs 5th c.BC+: frequently added to the specific names, ὄρνισιν ἐοικότες αἰγυπιοῖσιν Refs 8th c.BC+; ὄ. ἀηδών, πέρδιξ, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄ. ἁλκυών, ὄ. κύκνος, Refs 5th c.BC+
II like{οἰωνός}, bird of omen, from the flight or cries of which the augur divined, Refs 8th c.BC+; δεξιός, ἀριστερὸς ὄρνις, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, omen taken from the flight or cries of birds, Refs 8th c.BC+: generally, omen, presage, without direct reference to birds,Refs 5th c.BC+; see at {ὅδιος}.
III in Attic dialect ὄρνις, ὁ, is mostly, cock, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄρνις, ἡ, hen, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἀλέκτορα καὶ ὄρνιθα τελέαν cock and hen, Refs; in full, ὄ. ἐνοίκιος Refs 5th c.BC+; πότερον ὄ. ἢ ταὧ; Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ ὄρνιξ ὁ σιτευτός fatted fowl, Refs 3rd c.BC+; also, goose, Refs
IV in plural sometimes, bird-market, Refs 4th c.BC+
V Μοισᾶν ὄρνιχες song-birds, i.e. poets, Refs 3rd c.BC+
VI Provs.: διώκει παῖς ποτανὸν ὄρνιν Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀρνίθων γάλα 'pigeon's milk', i.e. any marvellous dainty or good fortune, Refs 5th c.BC+white of egg, Refs 5th c.BC+; also a plant, see at {ὀρνιθόγαλον}.
VII a constellation, later Cygnus, Refs 4th 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 | ornias2×ὄρνις | orniais |
| object accusative | ornian | orniain |
| direct address vocative | orniar | orniair |
| of, belonging to genitive | orniau | orniaiu |
| to, for dative | ornia | orniai |
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
ornia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ornias“hen”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 23:37… episunagara teim tekneim su, hon tropon ornias episunagatō teim nossieim autau hupo tain …… gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings …
Luke 13:34… episunagara teim tekneim su hon tropon ornias tan heautau nossian hupo tain pterugain, …… gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings …