Quick Definition
a disease, malady
Strong's Definition
a malady (rarely figuratively, of moral disability)
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;
KJV Usage: disease, infirmity, sickness
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
νόσος, νόσου, ἡ, disease, sickness: Mat_4:23; Mat_8:17; Mat_9:35; Mat_10:1; Mar_1:34; Mar_3:15 (R G L); Luk_4:40; Luk_6:18(); ; Act_19:12. (Deu_7:15; Deu_28:59; Exo_15:26, etc. (Homer, Herodotus, others.))
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
νόσος nosos 11x
a disease, sickness, distemper, Mat_4:23-24 ; Mat_8:17 ; Mat_9:35 illness; sickness.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
νόσος , -ου , ὁ ,
[in LXX for H2481 , etc.;]
disease, sickness: Mat_4:23-24 ; Mat_8:17 ( Aq .) Mat_9:35 ; Mat_10:1 , Mar_1:34 , Luk_4:40 ; Luk_6:17 ; Luk_7:21 ; Luk_9:1 , Act_19:12 .†
SYN.: see ἀσθένεια G769 .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
νόσος [page 430]
PSI IV. 299 .3 (ii/A.D.) κ̣ατεσχέθην νόσῳ , (cf. Joh_5:4 ), P Oxy XII. 1414 .26 (A.D. 270 5) ε̣ς̣ ( l. ἐν ) νόσῳ εἰμὶ καὶ τῆς πλευρᾶς [ῥ ]έγχ̣ομαι , I have (long) been ill and have a cough from my lung (Edd.), ib. VIII. 1121 .9 (A.D. 295) νόσῳ κατα [β ]λ̣[η ]θεῖσα , stricken with illness (Ed.), ib. VI. 939 .23 (iv/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 130) ἡνίκα ἐβαρεῖτο τῇ νόσῳ , when she was oppressed by sickness, ib. VIII. 1151 .26 (Christian amulet V/A.D. ?) ὁ ἰασάμενος πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν (cf. Mat_4:23 ), and similarly BGU III. 954 .11 (vi/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 133). For ἱερὰ νόσος , epilepsy, cf. P Oxy II. 263 .10 (A.D. 77) the sale of a slave ἀσυκοφάντητον πλὴν ἱερᾶς νόσου καὶ ἐπαφῆς , without blemish apart from epilepsy and leprosy, et saepe. Cf. also the sepulchral inscr. Preisigke 5883 .7 θνήσκω δ᾽ οὐ νούσοισι δαμείς , εὕδων δ᾽ ἐνὶ κοίτῃ | τοῦτον ἔχω μισθὸν δύσθιον (= λοίσθιον last ) εὐσεβίης , and Kaibel 314 .21 f. cited s.v. κορέννυμι . For the adj. νοσε (η )ρός see Crφnert Mem. Herc. p. 295 n. .2 . The form νοσηλός is found in the Christian P Oxy VI. 939 .26 (iv/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 130) νοσηλότερον δὲ ὅμως τὸ σωμάτιον ἔχει , she is still in a somewhat sickly state of body, and ἀνόσητος in P Iand 13 .11 (iv/A.D.) εἰ ἀνόσει̣τ̣[ος εἶ γράψον . The verb νοσηλεύω is found bis in the so-called letter of Trajan, P Fay 19 .5, .20 . Νοσοκομεῖον , hospital, occurs in the late P Amh II. 154 .2, .8 (vi/vii A.D.), and appears in MGr νοσοκομεῖο : but νόσος has dropped out of the vernacular, ἀρρώστια taking its place (Thumb, Handbook p. 46).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
νόσος νόσος, ionic νοῦσος, ἡ, "sickness, disease, malady", Hom. , etc. generally, "distress, misery, suffering, sorrow, evil", Hes. , Trag. "disease of mind", Trag. ; θεία ν., i. e. "madness", Soph. of states, "disorder, sedition", Plat. "a plague, bane", of a whirlwind, Soph.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
νόσος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for חֲלִי, etc. ;]
disease, sickness: Mat.4:23-24 8:17 (Aq.) Mat.9:35 10:1, Mrk.1:34, Luk.4:40 6:17 7:21 9:1, Act.19:12.†
SYN.: see: ἀσθένεια (AS)
