Strong's G3555: νοσσιά (nossiá) Meaning

Quick Definition

νοσσιά, ᾶς, ἡ n.f. a brood of young birds

Strong's Definition

a brood (of chickens)

Derivation: from G3502 (νεοσσός);

KJV Usage: brood

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

νοσσιά (G3555) — νοσσία

noun, f. | -ᾶς | νέος

4.40 · Animals · Birds

brood a collective for the young of birds hatched in a nest

LUK 13:34

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

νοσσιά, -as, ἡ, (for veooord, the earlier and more common form [cf. WH. App. p. 145], fr. νεοσσός, q. v.), Sept. for 1); 1. a nest of birds. 2. a brood of birds: Lk. xiii. 34 [but L txt. νοσσία, see the foll. word]. (Deut. xxxii. 11 [Gen. vi. 14; Num. xxiv. 22; Prov. xvi. 16, etc. ].)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

νοσσιά nossia 1x

a brood of young birds, Lk. 13:34*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

νοσσιά, -ᾶς, ἡ

(< νοσσός), late form of cl., νεοσσιά, [in LXX chiefly for קֵן;]

a nest of birds.

a brood of young birds: Lk 13:34.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

νοσσιά [page 430] On the form of this collective word = brood ( Luk_13:34 ) see Dieterich Untersuchungen, p. 47. A new ex. of the earlier form may be cited from Menandrea p. 81 .278 νεοττίαν | χελιδόνων . The Ionic form νοσσιή is found in Herodas vii. 72, and hypocoristic proper names Νοσσίς , Νόσσος , Νοσσώ , are quoted by Boisacq, p. 664. See also Hatzidakis Einl. p. 268.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

νοσσιά (nossia) — chick. Related to: νόσσαξ, ακος, ὁ, (νοσσός) chick, cockerel, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

νοσσιά, -ᾶς, ἡ (νοσσός), late form of cl., νεοσσιά, [in LXX chiefly for קֵן ;] __1. a nest of birds. __2. a brood of young birds: Luk.13:34.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

13:34

G3555 νοσσιά (nossiá)