STRONGS NUMBER G3577


Word Summary
nōtos: the back
Original Word: νῶτος
Transliteration: nōtos
Phonetic Spelling: (no'-tos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: the back
Meaning: the back
Strong's Concordance
back.

Of uncertain affinity; the back -- back.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3577: νῶτος

νῶτος, νώτου, (from root 'to bend,' 'curve,' akin to Latinnatis; Fick i. 128; Vanicek, p. 420), the back: Romans 11:10 from Psalm 68:24 (). (In Homer νῶτος ( the gender of the singular is undetermined in Homer and Hesiod (Liddell and Scott)), plural τά νῶτα; in Attic generally τό νῶτον, very rarely νῶτος; plural always τά νῶτα; the Sept. νῶτος, plural οἱ νῶτοι; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 290; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 351); Passow (Liddell and Scott), under the word.)

STRONGS NT 3577a: Ξ [Ξ Xi, on its occasional substitution for sigma ς' see Sigma.]