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νότος

south wind

‘south wind’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G3558 Strong's Greek
nótos Transliteration
/not'-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 7 appearances

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About this entry

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νοτος (nótos) is a Greek noun most often rendered “south wind.” It first appears in Matthew 12:42. With 7 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 43% of its uses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
south
Modern gloss
south wind
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G3558 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 →

7
distinct verses
The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
4 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 12:42
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 12:42.
Revelation 21:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:13.
#1,358
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 4 · 57%
  • Acts 2 · 29%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 1 · 14%

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 7 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 71%
  • Gospels 4 verses · 57%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 14%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 14%

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: South 4×, South wind 2×
  • American Standard Version: South 4×, South wind 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: South 4×, South wind 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: South 4×, South wind 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3558 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “South” 4×
  • “South wind” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3558 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “South” 4×
  • “South wind” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3558 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “South” 4×
  • “South wind” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3558 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “South” 4×
  • “South wind” 3×

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.

  1. the south wind
  2. the south, the southern quarter

Word origin

Origin: of uncertain affinity

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

Of uncertain affinity; the south ( southwest ) wind ; by extension the southern quarter itself : - south (wind).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G3558 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
νότου nótou Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 12:42 6
νότον nóton Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Luke 12:55 1

Septuagint usage

The same Greek word νοτος appears 69 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 58 verses in 16 books.

69
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
58
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
16 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3558) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 58. 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 (G3558) 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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