nephos: a mass of clouds, a cloud Original Word: νέφος, ους, τό Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: nephos Phonetic Spelling: (nef'-os) Short Definition: a cloud, multitude, great company Definition: a cloud; met: a dense crowd, a multitude, great company.
Word Origin a prim. word Definition a mass of clouds, a cloud NASB Word Usage cloud (1). 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. [SYNONYMS: νέφος, νεφέλη: νέφος is general, νεφέλη specific; the former denotes the great, shapeless collection of vapor obscuring the heavens; the latter designates particular and definite masses of the same, suggesting form and limit. Cf. Schmidt vol. i., chapter 36.]
cloud. Apparently a primary word; a cloud -- cloud.
νεόφυτον — 1 Occ. νεύει — 1 Occ. νεύσαντος — 1 Occ. νεφέλαι — 1 Occ. νεφέλαις — 2 Occ. νεφέλη — 8 Occ. νεφέλην — 5 Occ. νεφέλης — 5 Occ. νεφελῶν — 4 Occ. Νεφθαλίμ — 3 Occ. νεφροὺς — 1 Occ. νεωκόρον — 1 Occ. νεωτερικὰς — 1 Occ. νὴ — 1 Occ. νήθει — 1 Occ. νήθουσιν — 1 Occ. νηπιάζετε — 1 Occ. νηπίων — 2 Occ. νήπιοι — 3 Occ. νηπίοις — 3 Occ.
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νέφος — 1 Occ.
Hebrews 12:1 N-ANS BIB: περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων ὄγκον NAS: so great a cloud of witnesses KJV: with so great a cloud of witnesses, INT: encompassing us a cloud of witnesses weight1 Occurrence
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