Strong's Greek · G3733

G3733 órnis

ὄρνις

or'-nis

hen

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órnis appears twice in Scripture, in Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

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

In the King James Version

hen

Derivation

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

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!”

Luke 13:34

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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