νῆσος
island
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
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G3520 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Acts. 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.
Acts
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.
The Greek noun νησος centers on the idea of “island.” Acts dominates its distribution — 6 of 9 verses. Spanning 9 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Acts 13:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ναυς, ναυαγεω and ναυκληρος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3520 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 6 verses 67%
- Revelation 3 verses 33%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 67%
- Johannine 3 verses · 33%
- Revelation 3 verses · 33%
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: Island 6×, Isle 3×
- American Standard Version: Island 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Island 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Island 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3520 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3520 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G3520 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3520 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- an island
Word origin
Derived from ναυς (naûs) (G3491) — ship.
Probably from the base of G3491 ; an island : - island isle.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3520 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νήσῳ nḗsō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 28:9 | 3 |
| νῆσος nē̂sos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 28:1 | 3 |
| νῆσον nē̂son | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 13:6 | 2 |
| νήσου nḗsou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 28:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3520, 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
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νησος appears 32 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 6 books.
- 32
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 32
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 10:5 νήσος
- Psalms 71:10 νήσος
- Isaiah 20:6 νήσος
- Jeremiah 2:10 νήσος
- Ezekiel 26:15 νήσος
- Zephaniah 2:11 νήσος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3520) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 10:5 νήσος Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
- Genesis 10:32 νήσος These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Psalms 71:10 νήσος For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
- Psalms 96:1 νήσος Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
- Isaiah 20:6 νήσος The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
- Isaiah 23:2 νήσος Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
- Isaiah 23:6 νήσος Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coast.
- Isaiah 24:15 νήσος Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea!
- Isaiah 41:1 νήσος Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.
- Isaiah 42:10 νήσος Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it.
- Isaiah 42:12 νήσος Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
- Isaiah 42:15 νήσος I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
- Isaiah 45:16 νήσος They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
- Isaiah 49:1 νήσος Listen, isles, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:
- Isaiah 49:22 νήσος Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
- Isaiah 51:5 νήσος My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.
- Isaiah 60:9 νήσος Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
- Isaiah 66:19 νήσος I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
- Jeremiah 2:10 νήσος For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
- Jeremiah 27:38 νήσος
- Jeremiah 27:39 νήσος
- Jeremiah 29:4 νήσος Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
- Jeremiah 38:10 νήσος Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
- Ezekiel 26:15 νήσος Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
- Ezekiel 26:18 νήσος Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.
- Ezekiel 27:3 νήσος and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many isles, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
- Ezekiel 27:6 νήσος Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.
- Ezekiel 27:7 νήσος Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.
- Ezekiel 27:15 νήσος The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many isles were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
- Ezekiel 27:35 νήσος All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.
- Ezekiel 39:6 νήσος I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the isles; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Zephaniah 2:11 νήσος Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3520) 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.
