Strong's G3502: νεοσσός (neossós) Meaning

Quick Definition

νεοσσός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. a young bird, young one

Strong's Definition

a youngling (nestling)

Derivation: from G3501 (νέος);

KJV Usage: young

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

νοσσός (G3502a)

noun, m. | -οῦ | νέος

4.39 · Animals · Birds

young bird, chick the young of any bird

LUK 2:24

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

νεοσσός and (so T WH, see νοσσία) νοσσός, νεοσσου, ὁ (νέος), a young (creature), young bird: Luk_2:24. The form νοσσός appears in the Vaticanus text of the Sept.; but in the Alexandrian manuscript everywhere νεοσσός; cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced., p. 185f; Lob. ad Phryn. p. 206f; (cf. Winers Grammar, 24). (In Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept. often for αΕΜο, of the young of animals, as Lev_12:6; Lev_12:8; Job_38:41.) STRONGS NT 3502: νοσσόςνοσσός, see νεοσσός.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

νοσσός nossos 1x

also spelled νεοσσός, the young of birds, a young bird, chick, Lk. 2:24*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

νοσσός (νεοσσός, Rec., as in cl. Att. -ττός; Phryn. rejects the dissyl. form), -οῦ, ὁ

(< νέος), [in LXX chiefly for בֵּן;]

a young bird: Lk 2:24(LXX).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

νεοσσός / νοσσός [pages 424, 430] According to Moulton Gr. ii. p. 92 this Hellenistic form (for νεοσσός ), which is found on the word s only occurrence in the NT ( Luk_2:24 ), arose from the slurring of ε into a y sound, just as βορέας much earlier produced (βορ yᾶς ) βορρᾶς . Νεοσσός is seen in Kaibel 1033 .20 (iii/B.C.) θ ]ούροις πτερύγεσσι νεοσσόν , and Herodas vii. 48, and νεοσσοπῶλις , seller of young birds in ib. vi. 99. For the LXX usage cf. Thackeray Gr , i. p. 98. Νεοσσός < * νε ϝο -κιός , *a new occupant of a nest, from κεῖμαι (Boisacq, p. 664).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

νεοσσός (neossos) — nestling. νεοσσός, Attic dialect νεοττ-, ὁ, (νέος) young bird, nestling, chick, [NT+8th c.BC+]

2. any young animal, as a young crocodile, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of young children, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, young bees, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἄρεως ν., of the cock, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (also ironically, of a person, [Refs 5th c.BC+] the horse's brood, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

3. yolk of an egg, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare νεοττίον.—The disyllable form νοσσός is cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+] (b) fragment 3: this and cognate forms (commonly found in later Gr.) are condemned as ἀδόκιμα by [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

νοσσός (νεοσσός, Rec., as in cl. Att.. -ττός; Phryn. rejects the dissyl. form), -οῦ, ὁ (νόος), [in LXX chiefly for בֵּן ;] a young bird: Luk.2:24 (LXX).† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

2:24

G3502 νεοσσός (neossós)