Word Summary
nikos: victory
Original Word: νῖκοςTransliteration: nikos
Phonetic Spelling: (nee'-kos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: victory
Meaning: victory
Strong's Concordance
victory.
From nike; a conquest (concretely), i.e. (by implication) triumph -- victory.
see GREEK nike
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3534: νῖκοςνῖκος,
νικους,
τό, a later form equivalent to
νίκη (cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 647; (
Buttmann, 23 (20);
Winers Grammar, 24)),
victory:
1 Corinthians 15:55, 57 (2 Macc. 10:38; (1 Esdr. 3:9));
εἰς νῖκος, until he have gained the victory,
Matthew 12:20;
κατεπόθη ὁ θάνατος εἰς νῖκος, (
A. V. death is swallowed up in victory) i. e. utterly vanquished,
1 Corinthians 15:54. (The
Sept. sometimes translate the Hebrew
לָנֶצַח, i. e.
to everlasting, forever, by
εἰς νῖκος,
2 Samuel 2:26;
Job 36:7;
Lamentations 5:20;
Amos 1:11;
Amos 8:7, because
נֶצַח denotes also
splendor, 1 Chronicles 29:11, and in Syriac
victory.)