Lexical Summary nephos: a mass of clouds, a cloud Original Word: νέφοςTransliteration: nephos Phonetic Spelling: (nef'-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a mass of clouds, a cloud Meaning: a mass of clouds, a cloud Strong's Concordance cloud. Apparently a primary word; a cloud -- cloud. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3509: νέφοςνέφος, νέφους (allied with Latinnubes, nebula, etc.), τό, the Sept. for עָב and עָנָן, a cloud; in the N. T. once tropically, a large, dense multitude, a throng: μαρτύρων, Hebrews 12:1; often so in secular authors, as νεφῶν Τροωον, πεζῶν, ψαρων, κολοιων, Homer, Iliad 4, 274; 16, 66; 17, 755; 23, 133; ἀνθρώπων, Herodotus 8, 109; στρουθῶν, Aristophanes av. 578; ἀκρίδων, Diodorus 3, 29; peditum equitumque nubes, Livy 35, 49. |
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