STRONGS G3502:
νεοσσός and (so
T WH, see
νοσσία)
νοσσός,
νεοσσου,
ὁ (
νέος),
a young (creature), young bird:
Luke 2:24. The form
νοσσός appears in the Vaticanus text of the
Sept.; but in the Alexandrian manuscript everywhere
νεοσσός; cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced., p. 185f;
Lob. ad Phryn. p. 206f; (cf.
Winers Grammar, 24). (In Greek writings from
Homer down; the
Sept. often for
בֵּן, of the young of animals, as
Leviticus 12:6,
8;
Job 38:41.)
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