Lexical Summary ornis: a bird, a rooster or hen Original Word: ὄρνιςTransliteration: ornis Phonetic Spelling: (or'-nis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a bird, a rooster or hen Meaning: hen -- a bird, a rooster or hen Strong's Concordance hen. Probably from a prolonged form of the base of oros; a bird (as rising in the air), i.e. (specially), a hen (or female domestic fowl) -- hen. see GREEK oros Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3733: ὄρνιξὄρνιξ (so manuscripts א D), equivalent to ὄρνις (which see): Luke 13:34 Tdf. The nominative is not found in secular writings, but the trisyllabic forms ὀρνιχος, ὀρνιχι for ὀρνιθος, etc., are used in Doric; (Photius (edited by Porson, p. 348, 22) Ἰωνες ὄρνιξ ... καί Δωριεις ὄρνιξ. Cf. Curtius, p. 495). STRONGS NT 3733: ὄρνιςὄρνις, ὀρνιθος, ὁ, ἡ (ὈΡΩ, ὄρνυμι, (see ὄρθρος)); 1. a bird; so from Homer down. 2. specifically, a cock, a hen: Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34 (Tdf. ὄρνιξ, which see); (so Aeschylus Eum. 866; Xenophon, an. 4, 5, 25; Theocritus, Polybius 12, 26, 1; (others)). |