νοσσιά
nest
‘nest’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3555 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Luke 1 verse
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.
νοσσια — transliterated nossiá — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “nest.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Luke 13:34. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3555 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
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: Brood 1×
- American Standard Version: Own brood 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Chicks 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Brood 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- a nest of birds
- a brood of birds
Word origin
Derived from νεοσσος (neossós) (G3502) — young creature.
From G3502 ; a brood (of chickens): - brood.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3555, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νοσσια appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 11 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:14 νοσσιά
- Numbers 24:21 νοσσιά
- Deuteronomy 22:6 νοσσιά
- Job 39:27 νοσσιά
- Psalms 83:4 νοσσιά
- Proverbs 16:12 νοσσιά
- Isaiah 10:14 νοσσιά
- Jeremiah 30:10 νοσσιά
- Obadiah 1:4 νοσσιά
- Nahum 2:13 νοσσιά
- Habakkuk 2:9 νοσσιά
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3555) 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 6:14 νοσσιά Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Numbers 24:21 νοσσιά He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling-place, Your nest is set in the rock.
- Numbers 24:22 νοσσιά Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry you away captive.
- Deuteronomy 22:6 νοσσιά If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
- Deuteronomy 32:11 νοσσιά As an eagle that stirs up her nest, That flutters over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bore them on his feathers.
- Job 39:27 νοσσιά Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?
- Psalms 83:4 νοσσιά "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
- Proverbs 16:12 νοσσιά It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, For the throne is established by righteousness.
- Proverbs 27:8 νοσσιά As a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.
- Isaiah 10:14 νοσσιά and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.
- Jeremiah 30:10 νοσσιά Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
- Obadiah 1:4 νοσσιά Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
- Nahum 2:13 νοσσιά "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."
- Habakkuk 2:9 νοσσιά Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3555) 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.