ΝΕΦΕΛΗ, νεφελη
NEPHELĒ, nephelē
Sounds Like: NEH-feh-lee
Translations: cloud, a cloud
From the root: ΝΕΦΕΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a cloud, a visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. It is often used literally to describe weather phenomena, but can also be used metaphorically to represent a large group, a covering, or something transient and fleeting.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3507 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Codex Sinaiticus
- Numbers — 17:7
- Psalms — 77:14, 96:2
- Job — 37:11
- Wisdom — 19:7
- Isaiah — 4:5, 18:4
- Jeremiah — 4:13
- Matthew — 17:5
- Mark — 9:7
- Luke — 9:34, 21:27
- Acts of the Apostles — 1:9
- 1 Corinthians — 10:2
- Revelation — 11:12, 14:14
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 131:6
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 9:13, 9:14, 9:16
- Exodus — 16:10, 19:13, 19:16, 24:15, 24:16, 34:5, 40:28, 40:29, 40:30, 40:31, 40:32
- Leviticus — 16:2
- Numbers — 9:15, 9:16, 9:17, 9:18, 9:19, 9:20, 9:21, 10:11, 10:12, 10:34, 11:25, 12:10, 14:10, 14:14, 16:42
- Deuteronomy — 1:33, 31:15
- 1 Kings — 8:10, 18:44
- 2 Maccabees — 2:8
- Psalms — 77:14, 96:2
- Job — 22:14, 37:11
- Wisdom — 19:7
- Isaiah — 4:5, 18:4
- Jeremiah — 4:13
- Ezekiel — 1:4, 1:20, 1:28, 10:3, 10:4, 30:18, 32:7, 34:12, 38:9, 38:16
- Hosea — 6:4, 13:3
- Enoch — 18:5
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 17:5
- Mark — 9:7
- Luke — 9:34, 21:27
- Acts — 1:9
- 1 Corinthians — 10:2
- Revelation — 11:12, 14:14
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΕΦΕΛΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΝΕΦΕΛΑΙ — clouds
- ΝΕΦΕΛΑΙΣ — to clouds, in clouds, with clouds, by clouds
- ΝΕΦΕΛΑΣ — of a cloud, of clouds, cloud, a cloud, clouds
- ΝΕΦΕΛΕ — cloud, a cloud
- ΝΕΦΕΛΗΝ — cloud, a cloud
- ΝΕΦΕΛΗΣ — of cloud, of a cloud
- ΝΕΦΕΛΩ — to a cloud, in a cloud, with a cloud
- ΝΕΦΕΛΩΝ — of clouds, clouds
- ΦΕΛΩΝ — of clouds, clouds
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