νεφέλη
cloud
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G3507 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Mark. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
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About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“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
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.
- #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
- Revelation 6 verses 29%
- Luke 4 verses 19%
- Matthew 3 verses 14%
By section of the New Testament
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:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3507 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3507 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- used of the cloud which led the Israelites in the wilderness
Word origin
Derived from νεφος (néphos) (G3509) — cloud.
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
- Genesis 9:13 νεφέλη
- Exodus 13:21 νεφέλη
- Leviticus 16:2 νεφέλη
- Numbers 9:15 νεφέλη
- Deuteronomy 1:33 νεφέλη
- Joshua 24:7 νεφέλη
- Judges 5:4 νεφέλη
- 2 Samuel 22:12 νεφέλη
- 1 Kings 8:10 νεφέλη
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 νεφέλη
- Ezra 19:12 νεφέλη
- Job 26:8 νεφέλη
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.
- Genesis 9:13 νεφέλη I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:14 νεφέλη It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
- Genesis 9:16 νεφέλη The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Exodus 13:21 νεφέλη Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exodus 13:22 νεφέλη the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
- Exodus 14:19 νεφέλη The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
- Exodus 14:24 νεφέλη It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
- Exodus 16:10 νεφέλη It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
- Exodus 19:9 νεφέλη Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
- Exodus 19:13 νεφέλη No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
- Exodus 19:16 νεφέλη It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Exodus 24:15 νεφέλη Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
- Exodus 24:16 νεφέλη The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
- Exodus 24:18 νεφέλη Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Exodus 33:9 νεφέλη It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
- Exodus 33:10 νεφέλη All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
- Exodus 34:5 νεφέλη Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.
- Exodus 40:31 νεφέλη Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
- Exodus 40:32 νεφέλη When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:33 νεφέλη He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
- Exodus 40:34 νεφέλη Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tent.
- Exodus 40:35 νεφέλη Moses wasn't able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tent.
- Leviticus 16:2 νεφέλη and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
- Numbers 9:15 νεφέλη On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
- Numbers 9:16 νεφέλη So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- Numbers 9:17 νεφέλη Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
- Numbers 9:18 νεφέλη At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
- Numbers 9:19 νεφέλη When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh, and didn't travel.
- Numbers 9:20 νεφέλη Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
- Numbers 9:21 νεφέλη Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
- Numbers 9:22 νεφέλη Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.
- Numbers 10:11 νεφέλη It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony.
- Numbers 10:12 νεφέλη The children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 10:36 νεφέλη When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
- Numbers 11:25 νεφέλη Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- Numbers 12:5 νεφέλη Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.
- Numbers 12:10 νεφέλη The cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
- Numbers 14:10 νεφέλη But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.
- Numbers 14:14 νεφέλη and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 17:7 νεφέλη Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.
- Deuteronomy 1:33 νεφέλη who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
- Deuteronomy 31:15 νεφέλη Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
- Joshua 24:7 νεφέλη When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.
- Judges 5:4 νεφέλη Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, When you marched out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the sky also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped water.
- 2 Samuel 22:12 νεφέλη He made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- 1 Kings 8:10 νεφέλη It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,
- 1 Kings 8:11 νεφέλη so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 18:44 νεφέλη It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
- 1 Kings 18:45 νεφέλη It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 νεφέλη it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
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.