Strong G3733ὄρνις
hen
- Transliteration
- ornis
- Pronunciation
- or'-nis
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Probably from a prolonged form of the base of G3735; a bird (as rising in the air) that is (specifically) a hen (or female domestic fowl): - hen.
Detailed definition
ὄρνις, -ιθος, ὁ, ἡ
[in LXX: ὄ. ἐκλεκταί, I2Ki.3:1 4:23 (3Ki.5:3) (בַּרְבֻּר)*;]
a bird; specif., a cock, a hen: Mat.23:3, Luk.13:34 (WH).†
(AS)
[in LXX: ὄ. ἐκλεκταί, I2Ki.3:1 4:23 (3Ki.5:3) (בַּרְבֻּר)*;]
a bird; specif., a cock, a hen: Mat.23:3, Luk.13:34 (WH).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3733 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- hen2
First verses
- Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
- Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὄρνις, ὁ,
also ἡ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.323, 14.290, +others, frequently in _Attic dialect_, compare 111)]; genitive ὄρνῑθο; accusative singular ὄρνῑθα and ὄρνιν, neither in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus: _plural_, _nominative_ and _accusative_ ὄρνῑθες, -θας, but in _accusative_ also ὄρνεις or ὄρνῑς (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 966, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1059, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 717, 1250, 1610, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.245, etc.))]:—also ὄρνιξ, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 375.1 (3rd c.BC), variant in NT.Luke.13.34)], called Ionic dialect and Doric dialect by [Refs 7th c.BC+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. (but ὄρνις _nominative_ in 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 26.4))]; accusative ὄρνῑχα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.88; _genitive_ ὄρνῑχος [prev. author] “I.” 6(5).53: _nominative_ _plural_ ὄρνῑχες 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.22, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.47; _genitive_ _plural_ ὀρνίχων 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 67, “Abh.Berl.Akad.” 1925(5).33 (Cyrene, 4th c.BC))]; dative ὄρνιξι, ὀρνίχεσσι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.112, 4.190 (ὄρνιξι also in “PLond.” 1.131r. 125, +others (1st c.AD)))]: on the gender and declension, see [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.373f (Cf. ὄρν-εον,)] Gothic ara, genitive arins 'eagle', etc.) [In the trisyllable cases ῑ always: [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has ὄρνῑς in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.323, 12.218, but ὄρνῐς [prev. work] 24.219)]; and later Epic dialect use both ὄρνῑς and ὄρνῐς: in Trag. both quantities are found, ὄρνῐς in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 304.3 (-ῐν), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1021, “El.” 149 (Lyric poetry), “fragment” 654, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 72, and so 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 79.10; but ὄρνῑς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1365, and always in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus (“Av.” 103, +others), for inib. 168, the words τίς ὄρνῐς οὗτος)]; are borrowed from Sophocles; ὄρνῑς is said to be Attic dialect, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 632.8.])]
I bird, including birds of prey and domestic fowls, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]; applied to ostriches, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.7)]: frequently added to the specific names, ὄρνισιν ἐοικότες αἰγυπιοῖσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.59; λάρῳ ὄρνιθι ἐοικώς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.51)]; ὄ. ἀηδών, πέρδιξ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 629, “fragment” 323)]; ὄ. ἁλκυών, ὄ. κύκνος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1089 (Lyric poetry), “Hel.” 19.)]
II like{οἰωνός}, bird of omen, from the flight or cries of which the augur divined, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 828)]; δεξιός, ἀριστερὸς ὄρνις, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.821, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.242, +others; χρηστηρίους ὄρνιθας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 26, compare “Ag.” 112, 157 (both Lyric poetry); ὄ. αἴσιος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 52, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 19, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.314; ὀρνίθων οἰωνίσματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 839.)]
II.2 metaphorically, omen taken from the flight or cries of birds, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.277, +others)]: generally, omen, presage, without direct reference to birds,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (24.219, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.19; ὄρνιθα δ᾽ οὐ ποιῶ σε τῆς ἐμῆς ὁδοῦ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 95, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 988, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 63, “Av.” 719 ff.)]; see at {ὅδιος}.
III in Attic dialect ὄρνις, ὁ, is mostly, cock, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 18; κοκκυβόας ὄ. [prev. author] “fragment” 791, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 815)]; ὄρνις, ἡ, hen, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 167, 168, “PCair.Zen.” 266 (3rd c.BC, _plural_))]; ἀλέκτορα καὶ ὄρνιθα τελέαν cock and hen, [Refs (“TAM” 2(1).245.8 (from Lycia))]; in full, ὄ. ἐνοίκιος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 866; θήλεια ὄ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 477)]; πότερον ὄ. ἢ ταὧ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 102 (with play on this signification and signf. I))]; ὁ ὄρνιξ ὁ σιτευτός fatted fowl, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 375.1; ὀρνίθων φοινικολόφων 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.72, compare 24.64, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.49; ὄ. οἰκίης 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 17.1)]; also, goose, [Refs ([prev. author] 123.1.)]
IV in plural sometimes, bird-market, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.245; compare ὄρνεον 11.)]
V Μοισᾶν ὄρνιχες song-birds, i.e. poets, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.47.)]
VI Provs.: διώκει παῖς ποτανὸν ὄρνιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 394 (Lyric poetry); ὄ. ὥς τις ἐκ χερῶν ἄφαντος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 828)]; ὀρνίθων γάλα 'pigeon's milk', i.e. any marvellous dainty or good fortune, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 508, “Av.” 1673, 4th c.BC: Mnesimachus Comicus 9, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 936; but ὄρνιθος γάλα)]white of egg, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 22)]; also a plant, see at {ὀρνιθόγαλον}.
VII a constellation, later Cygnus, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.16, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 275, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 26.)]
also ἡ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.323, 14.290, +others, frequently in _Attic dialect_, compare 111)]; genitive ὄρνῑθο; accusative singular ὄρνῑθα and ὄρνιν, neither in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus: _plural_, _nominative_ and _accusative_ ὄρνῑθες, -θας, but in _accusative_ also ὄρνεις or ὄρνῑς (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 966, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1059, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 717, 1250, 1610, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.245, etc.))]:—also ὄρνιξ, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 375.1 (3rd c.BC), variant in NT.Luke.13.34)], called Ionic dialect and Doric dialect by [Refs 7th c.BC+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. (but ὄρνις _nominative_ in 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 26.4))]; accusative ὄρνῑχα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.88; _genitive_ ὄρνῑχος [prev. author] “I.” 6(5).53: _nominative_ _plural_ ὄρνῑχες 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.22, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.47; _genitive_ _plural_ ὀρνίχων 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 67, “Abh.Berl.Akad.” 1925(5).33 (Cyrene, 4th c.BC))]; dative ὄρνιξι, ὀρνίχεσσι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.112, 4.190 (ὄρνιξι also in “PLond.” 1.131r. 125, +others (1st c.AD)))]: on the gender and declension, see [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.373f (Cf. ὄρν-εον,)] Gothic ara, genitive arins 'eagle', etc.) [In the trisyllable cases ῑ always: [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has ὄρνῑς in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.323, 12.218, but ὄρνῐς [prev. work] 24.219)]; and later Epic dialect use both ὄρνῑς and ὄρνῐς: in Trag. both quantities are found, ὄρνῐς in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 304.3 (-ῐν), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1021, “El.” 149 (Lyric poetry), “fragment” 654, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 72, and so 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 79.10; but ὄρνῑς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1365, and always in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus (“Av.” 103, +others), for inib. 168, the words τίς ὄρνῐς οὗτος)]; are borrowed from Sophocles; ὄρνῑς is said to be Attic dialect, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 632.8.])]
I bird, including birds of prey and domestic fowls, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]; applied to ostriches, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.7)]: frequently added to the specific names, ὄρνισιν ἐοικότες αἰγυπιοῖσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.59; λάρῳ ὄρνιθι ἐοικώς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.51)]; ὄ. ἀηδών, πέρδιξ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 629, “fragment” 323)]; ὄ. ἁλκυών, ὄ. κύκνος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1089 (Lyric poetry), “Hel.” 19.)]
II like{οἰωνός}, bird of omen, from the flight or cries of which the augur divined, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 828)]; δεξιός, ἀριστερὸς ὄρνις, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.821, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.242, +others; χρηστηρίους ὄρνιθας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 26, compare “Ag.” 112, 157 (both Lyric poetry); ὄ. αἴσιος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 52, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 19, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.314; ὀρνίθων οἰωνίσματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 839.)]
II.2 metaphorically, omen taken from the flight or cries of birds, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.277, +others)]: generally, omen, presage, without direct reference to birds,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (24.219, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.19; ὄρνιθα δ᾽ οὐ ποιῶ σε τῆς ἐμῆς ὁδοῦ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 95, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 988, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 63, “Av.” 719 ff.)]; see at {ὅδιος}.
III in Attic dialect ὄρνις, ὁ, is mostly, cock, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 18; κοκκυβόας ὄ. [prev. author] “fragment” 791, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 815)]; ὄρνις, ἡ, hen, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 167, 168, “PCair.Zen.” 266 (3rd c.BC, _plural_))]; ἀλέκτορα καὶ ὄρνιθα τελέαν cock and hen, [Refs (“TAM” 2(1).245.8 (from Lycia))]; in full, ὄ. ἐνοίκιος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 866; θήλεια ὄ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 477)]; πότερον ὄ. ἢ ταὧ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 102 (with play on this signification and signf. I))]; ὁ ὄρνιξ ὁ σιτευτός fatted fowl, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 375.1; ὀρνίθων φοινικολόφων 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.72, compare 24.64, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.49; ὄ. οἰκίης 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 17.1)]; also, goose, [Refs ([prev. author] 123.1.)]
IV in plural sometimes, bird-market, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.245; compare ὄρνεον 11.)]
V Μοισᾶν ὄρνιχες song-birds, i.e. poets, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.47.)]
VI Provs.: διώκει παῖς ποτανὸν ὄρνιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 394 (Lyric poetry); ὄ. ὥς τις ἐκ χερῶν ἄφαντος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 828)]; ὀρνίθων γάλα 'pigeon's milk', i.e. any marvellous dainty or good fortune, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 508, “Av.” 1673, 4th c.BC: Mnesimachus Comicus 9, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 936; but ὄρνιθος γάλα)]white of egg, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 22)]; also a plant, see at {ὀρνιθόγαλον}.
VII a constellation, later Cygnus, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.16, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 275, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 26.)]