νέφος, νέφους (allied with Latinnubes, nebula, etc.), τό, the Sept. for ςΘα and ςΘπΘο, a cloud; in the N. T. once tropically, a large, dense multitude, a throng: μαρτύρων, Heb_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.]

νέφος nephos 1x a cloud; trop. a cloud, a throng of persons, Heb_12:1

νέφος , -ους , τό , [in LXX for H5645 , H7834 , H6049 ;] a mass of cloads, a cloud ( cf. νεφέλη ); metaph . as in Hom ., Hdt ., al. ), of a dense throng: Heb_12:1 .†

νέφος [page 425] We are unable to illustrate from our sources the metaphorical use of this NT ἅπ . εἰρ . in Heb_12:1 , but cf. Kaibel 1068 .2 πᾶν γὰρ ἀκοσμί [η ]ς λέλυται νέφο [ς , and the phrase in the Hymn of Isis ib. 1028 .68 (end of (iii/A.D.) πολέμω (=ου ) κρυερὸν νέφος , which recalls Il. xvii. 243.

νέφος νέφος, εος, "a cloud, mass or pile of clouds", Hom. , etc. metaph., θανάτου νέφος "the cloud" of death, id=Hom. ; so, σκότου ν., of blindness, Soph. ; ν. οἰμωγῆς, στεναγμῶν Eur. ; ν. ὀφρύων "a cloud" upon the brows, id=Eur. metaph. also "a cloud" of men or birds, Il. , Hdt. ; ν. πολέμοιο "the cloud" of battle, Il.

νέφος, -ους, τό [in LXX for עָב, שַׁחַק, עָנַן ;] a mass of clouds, a cloud (cf. νεφέλη); metaphorically as in Hom., Hdt., al.), of a dense throng: Heb.12:1.† (AS)