Quick Definition
νῖκος, ους, τό n.n. victory
Strong's Definition
a conquest (concretely), i.e. (by implication) triumph
Derivation: from G3529 (νίκη);
KJV Usage: victory
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
νῖκος, -ous, τό, a later form i. q. νίκη (cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p- 647; [B. 23 (20); W. 247), victory: 1 Co. xv. 55, 57, (2 Mace. x. 38; [1 Esdr. iii. 97}; εἰς νῖκος, until he have gained the victory, Mt. xii. 20; κατεπόθη ὁ θάνατος εἰς νῖκος, [A. V. death is swallowed up in victory] i. e. utterly vanquished, 1 Co. xv. 54. (The Sept. sometimes translate the Hebr. ΠΥ) i. e. to everlasting, forever, by εἰς νῖκος, 28. ii. 26; Jobxxxvi. 7; Lam. v.20; Am.i.11; viii. 7, because ΓΚ) denotes also splendor, 1 Chr. xxix. 11, and in Syriae victory.) ἢ Nwevt, ἡ, Hebr. 1Π}}}} (supposed to be compounded of 12 and 77)3, the abode of Ninus; [ef. Fried. Delitzsch as below; Schrader as below, pp. 102, 572]), in the Grk. and Rom. writ. ἡ Nivos [on the accent οἵ. Pape, Eigennamen, s. v.], Nineveh (Vulg. Ninive [so A. V. in Lk. as below 7), a great city, the capital of Assyria, built apparently about B. c. 2000, on the eastern bank of the Tigris opposite the modern city of Mosul. It was destroyed [about] B.c. 606, and its ruins, containing invaluable monuments of art and archaeology, began to be excavated in recent times (from 1840 on), especially by the labors of the Frenchman Botta and the Englishman Layard; ef. Layard, Nineveh and its Remains, Lond. 1849, 2 vols.; and his Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, Lond. 1853; [also his art. in Smith’s Dict. of the Bible]; H. J. C. Weissenborn, Ninive u. s. Gebiet ete. 2 Pts. Erf. 1851-56; Tuch, De Nino urbe, Lips. 1844; Spiegel in Herzog x. pp. 361-381; [esp. Fried. Delitzsch in Herzog 2 (ef. Schaff-Herzog) x. pp. 587-603 ; Schrader, Keilinschriften u. 5. w. index s. v.; and in Riehm s. v.; W. Robertson Smith in Encye. Brit. 5. v.]; Hitzig in Schenkel iv. 334 sqq.; [Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies etc.; Geo. Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, (Lond. 1875)]. Inthe N. T. once, viz. Lk. xi. 32 R G.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
νῖκος nikos 4x
victory, Mt. 12:20; 1 Cor. 15:54, 55, 57*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† νῖκος, -ους, τό, late form of νίκη,
[in LXX: La 3:18 (נֶצַח), I Es 3:9, II Mac 10:38, IV Mac 17:12; εἰς ν. (instead of εἰς τέλος, Jb 14:20), II Ki 2:26, Jb 36:7, Am 1:11 8:7, Je 3:5, La 5:20 (לָנֶצֵח, as נ׳ in Syr., = victory)*;]
victory: Mt 12:20 (Is 42:3, LXX ἀλήθεια), I Co 15:54 (Is 25:8, Aq., Th.), I Co 15:55 (Ho 13:14, LXX δίκη), I Co 15:57.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
νῖκος (nikos) — victory. νῖκος, εος, τό, later form for νίκη, [LXX+1st c.BC+]; written νεῖκος), [NT+8th c.BC+]; εἰς νῖκος for ever, [LXX]