Strong's Concordance nephos: a mass of clouds, a cloud Original Word: νέφος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: nephos Phonetic Spelling: (nef'-os) Short Definition: a cloud, multitude, great company Definition: a cloud; met: a dense crowd, a multitude, great company. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3509: νέφοςνέφος, νέφους (allied with Latinnubes, nebula, etc.), τό, the Sept. for עָב and עָנָן, a cloud; in the N. T. once tropically, a large, dense multitude, a throng: μαρτύρων, Hebrews 12:1; often so in secular authors, as νεφῶν Τροωον, πεζῶν, ψαρων, κολοιων, Homer, Iliad 4, 274; 16, 66; 17, 755; 23, 133; ἀνθρώπων, Herodotus 8, 109; στρουθῶν, Aristophanes av. 578; ἀκρίδων, Diodorus 3, 29; peditum equitumque nubes, Livy 35, 49. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance cloud. Apparently a primary word; a cloud -- cloud. Forms and Transliterations νεφέλης νέφη νεφος νέφος νέφους νεφών nephos néphosLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 35091 Occurrence νέφος — 1 Occ. Hebrews 12:1 N-ANS GRK: περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων ὄγκον NAS: so great a cloud of witnesses KJV: with so great a cloud of witnesses, INT: encompassing us a cloud of witnesses weight |