ὄρνιξ (so manuscripts ΰ D), equivalent to ὄρνις (which see): Luk_13:34 Tdf. The nominative is not found in secular writings, but the trisyllabic forms ὀρνιχος, ὀρνιχι for ὀρνιθος, etc., are used in Doric; (Photius (edited by Porson, p. 348, 22) Ἰωνες ὄρνιξ ... καί Δωριεις ὄρνιξ. Cf. Curtius, p. 495). STRONGS NT 3733: ὄρνιςὄρνις, ὀρνιθος, ὁ, ἡ (ὈΡΩ, ὄρνυμι, (see ὄρθρος)); 1. a bird; so from Homer down. 2. specifically, a cock, a hen: Mat_23:37; Luk_13:34 (Tdf. ὄρνιξ, which see); (so Aeschylus Eum. 866; Xenophon, an. 4, 5, 25; Theocritus, Polybius 12, 26, 1; (others)).

ὄρνις ornis 2x bird, fowl; domestic hen, Mat_23:37 ; Luk_13:34

ὄρνις , -ιθος , ὁ , ἡ , [in LXX : ὄ . ἐκλεκταί , 1Ki_3:1 ; 1Ki_4:23 ( 1Ki_5:3 ) ( H1257 ) * ;] a bird; specif., a cock, a hen: Mat_23:3 , Luk_13:34 ( WH ).† *† ὄρνιξ ( cf. Doric gen ., ὄρνιχος , and MGr ., ὀρνίχ ; v. M , Pr., 45), = ὄρνις : Luk_13:34 ( T ; WB , ὄρνις ).†

ὄρνις / ὄρνιξ [page 458] ὄρνις ὄρνις was specialized at an early date to mean cock or hen, just as ἄλογον was restricted to the meaning horse as early as iv/A.D. (Hatzidakis Einl. p. 34 f.) : cf. the use of fowl in English. The word is naturally common in food accounts, e.g. P Tebt II. 468 (late ii/B.C.) ὄρνιθας β̄ , P Oxy IV. 738 .9 ( c. A.D. 1) ὄρνις σιδυτὴ ἐξ ὕδα (τος ) ᾱ , I bird . . . from the water : note also the provisions prepared in expectation of a visit (παρουσία ) from the διοικητής Chrysippus, P Grenf II. 14 ( b ) .3 f. (B.C. 264 or 227) ἑτοιμάκαμεν . . . ὄρνιθας πεντήκοντα· [ὅ ]δ̣ια χῆνες πεντήκοντα , ὄρνιθες διακόσια [ι ], περ [ι ]στριδεῖς ἑκατόν : cf. 3Ki. 4:23 [MT 1Ki_4:23 ] ὀρνίθων ἐκλεκτῶν among Solomon s delicacies the only occurrence of the form ὄρνις in the LXX (Thackeray Gr. i. p. 152 f.). In a i/B.C. memorandum of rent, P Goodsp Cairo 9, Pates acknowledges leasing an island for the sixteenth year for forty-five artabae of wheat and ten birds .8 ὄρνιθας ῑ . A φόρος ὀρνίθων , a tax on fowls, is coupled with a φόρος προβάτων , a tax on sheep, in P Strass I. 67 (A.D. 228). From the inscrr. we may cite a Lycian inscr., JHS xxxiv. (1914) p. 5, No. 10 .8 βούλομαι καθ· ἔτος θύεσθαι [ἡμ ]εῖν ἀλέκτορα καὶ ὄρνειθα τελέα [ν ] καὶ καλ [ήν . For ὀρν (ε )ιθών , fowl-house, see P Oxy IX. 1207 .4 (A.D. 175 6?). The same document refers to 8 laying hens in perfect condition (Ed.) .9 ὀρνείθων τελείων τοκάδων ὀκτώ : cf. P Oxy XII. 1568 (A.D. 265) order to a poultry-dealer (ὀρνιθᾶς ) to supply two hens and twenty eggs for a birthday festival εἰς γενέσια Πανάρους τοκάδες δύο . . . ᾠὰ εἴκοσι . MGr ὄρνιθα , ὀρνίθι , hen. ὄρνιξ This Doric form, which is read in Luk_13:34 ΰ DW, is attested in the papyri, e.g. P Lond 131 recto .125 (accounts A.D. 78 9) (= I. p. 173) ὄρνιξι καὶ περιστ (εραῖς ). The word survives in the MGr (Cappadocian) ὀρνίχ : cf. Thumb Hellen. p. 90 f., Archiv iv. p. 490.

ὄρνις [Etym: gen. ὄρνι_θος; acc. ὄρνι^θα and ὄρνιν] [Etym: as if from ὄρνιξ] "a bird", Hom. , etc.; often added to the specific names, ὄρνισιν ἐοικότες αἰγυπιοῖσιν Il. ; λάρῳ ὄρνιθι ἐοικώς Od. ; ὄ. ἀηδών, πέρδιξ Soph. ; ὄ. ἁλκυών, ὄ. κύκνος Eur. like οἰωνός, "a bird of omen", from the flight or cries of which the augur divined, Hom. , Soph. metaph., like Lat. avis for "augurium, the omen or prophecy taken from the flight or cries of birds", Hom. , etc.:—then, generally, "an omen, presage", without direct reference to birds, Il. in attic, ὄρνις, is mostly "a cock", ὄρνις, ἡ, "a hen", Soph. , Ar. , etc. in pl. sometimes "the bird-market", Ar. , Dem. Μοισᾶν ὄρνιθες "birds" of the Muses, i. e. Poets, Theocr. :— proverb., ὀρνίθων γάλα "pigeon's milk, " i. e. any marvellous dainty or good fortune, Ar.

ὄρνις, -ιθος, ὁ, ἡ [in LXX: ὄ. ἐκλεκταί, I2Ki.3:1 4:23 (3Ki.5:3) (בַּרְבֻּר)* ;] a bird; specif., a cock, a hen: Mat.23:3, Luk.13:34 (WH).† (AS)