Strong G3554νόσος

illness

Transliteration
nosos
Pronunciation
nos'-os
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

Of uncertain affinity; a malady (rarely figurative of moral disability): - disease infirmity sickness.

Detailed definition

νόσος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for חֲלִי, etc.;]
disease, sickness: Mat.4:23-24 8:17 (Aq.) Mat.9:35 10:1, Mrk.1:34, Luk.4:40 6:17 7:21 9:1, Act.19:12.†
SYN.: see: ἀσθένεια (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3554 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • disease6
  • sickness5
  • infirmity1

First verses

  1. Matthew 4:23
    And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
  2. Matthew 4:24
    And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
  3. Matthew 8:17
    That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
  4. Matthew 9:35
    And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
  5. Matthew 10:1
    And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
  6. Mark 1:34
    And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
  7. Mark 3:15
    And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
  8. Luke 4:40
    Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
  9. Luke 6:17
    And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
  10. Luke 7:21
    And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
  11. Luke 9:1
    Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
  12. Acts 19:12
    So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
νόσος,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect (not Doric dialect,[Refs (compare “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.156 (from Cyrene)))] νοῦσος, ἡ, sickness, disease, plague, νοῦσον ἀνὰ στρατὸν ὦρσε κακήν (i.e. Apollo), ὀλέκοντο δὲ λαοί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.10; νοῦσόν γ᾽ οὔ πως ἔστι Διὸς μεγάλου ἀλέασθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.411; δολιχὴ ν. 11.172; νοῦσοι ἀργαλέαι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 92:— Phrases: ἐς ν. πεσεῖν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 473; ἐς ν. ἐμπίπτειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.20; νόσον ἐμπεπτωκέναι τοῖς κτήνεσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.41; μοι ν. ἐπήλυθεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.200; νόσῳ ληφθέντι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 445)]; κάμνειν νόσον, ὑπὸ νόσου, see at {κάμν; ἀσθενεῖν ταύτην τὴν νόσον} [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.24; ἐκ τῆς νούσου ἀνέστη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.22)]; θήλεα ν.[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 105, compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 4.12.2; ἱερὰ νόσος, see at {ἱερός} IV. 8: ν. defined, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.43.)]
II generally, distress, anguish, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 527, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 544 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]
II.2 disease of mind, especially caused by madness, passion, vice, etc., ν. φρενῶν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 750 (troch.))]; θεία ν., i.e. madness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 185 (Lyric poetry); μανιάσιν ν. [prev. work] 59; λυσσώδη ν. [prev. work] 452)]; of love, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tr.” 491; Ἀφροδίτας ν. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 767 (Lyric poetry); ἀκόλαστον ἔσχε γλῶσσαν, αἰσχίστην ν. [prev. author] “Or.” 10; τῆς μεγίστης ν., ἀνοίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 691d)]; ν. καὶ στάσιν οὐ ταὐτὸν νενόμικα; [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 228a.)]
II.3 plague, bane, mischief, e.g. a whirlwind is θεία ν. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 421, compare 1141 (Lyric poetry))]; of the trident of Poseidon, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 924 (assuming variant))]; πεντεσύριγγος ν., of the pillory, Polyeuct. cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1411a23; κτείνειν τινὰ ὡς νόσον πόλεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 322d.)]