STRONGS G3509:
νέφος,
νέφους (allied with Latin
nubes, 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.
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