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Strong’s G3733 · Greek

ὄρνις

órnis · or'-nis

Origin probably from a prolonged form of the base of ὄρος (G3735);

Meaning a bird (as rising in the air), i.e. (specially), a hen (or female domestic fowl)

In the King James Version hen.

In 2 verses of the King James Version

  1. 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!
  2. 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!

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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