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νεφέλη

cloud

G3507 Strong's Greek
nephélē Transliteration
/nef-el'-ay/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 25 appearances

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About this entry

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“cloud” is the headline sense of the Greek noun νεφελη (nephélē). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 17:5. It appears 21 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Revelation. It shares a root with νεφος, γνοφος and ζοφος. See the sense tree, 21-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
cloud
Modern gloss
cloud
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G3507 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

21
distinct verses
The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
8 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 17:5
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 17:5.
Revelation 14:16
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 14:16.
#530
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 530 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 10 · 48%
  • Acts 1 · 5%
  • Pauline Epistles 3 · 14%
  • General Epistles 1 · 5%
  • Revelation 6 · 29%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 21 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 10 verses · 48%
  • Johannine 6 verses · 29%
  • Revelation 6 verses · 29%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 24%
  • Pauline corpus 3 verses · 14%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 5%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Cloud 18×, Clouds 8×
  • American Standard Version: Cloud 17×, Clouds 7×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Cloud 18×, Clouds 7×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cloud 18×, Clouds 7×, A 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3507 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Cloud” 18×
  • “Clouds” 8×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3507 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Cloud” 17×
  • “Clouds” 7×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3507 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Cloud” 18×
  • “Clouds” 7×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3507 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Cloud” 18×
  • “Clouds” 7×
  • “A” 2×

Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. used of the cloud which led the Israelites in the wilderness

Word origin

Derived from νεφος (néphos) (G3509) — cloud.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 19:02,6

From G3509 ; properly cloudiness that is (concretely) a cloud : - cloud.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 7 distinct written forms G3507 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
νεφέλη nephélē Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 17:5 5
νεφέλην nephélēn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Luke 9:34 5
νεφέλης nephélēs Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 17:5 5
νεφελῶν nephelō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Matthew 24:30 4
νεφέλῃ nephélē Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Luke 21:27 3
νεφέλαις nephélais Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Mark 13:26 2
νεφέλαι nephélai Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Jude 1:12 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3507, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word νεφελη appears 116 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 108 verses in 24 books.

116
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
108
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
24 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3507) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 108. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3507) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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