Strong's Greek · G3733

ὄρνις

órnis

hen

Definition

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

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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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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