Word Summary
nossia: a brood of young birds
Original Word: νοσσιάTransliteration: nossia
Phonetic Spelling: (nos-see-ah')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a brood of young birds
Meaning: a brood of young birds
Strong's Concordance
brood.
From neossos; a brood (of chickens) -- brood.
see GREEK neossos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3555: νοσσίανοσσία,
νοσσιᾶς,
ἡ (for
νεοσσιά, the earlier and more common form (cf.
WH's Appendix, p. 145), from
νεοσσός, which see), the
Sept. for
קֵן;
1. a nest of birds.
2. a brood of birds: Luke 13:34 (but L text νοσσία, see the following word). (Deuteronomy 32:11 (Genesis 6:14; Numbers 24:22; Proverbs 16:16, etc.).)