Hen
ὄρνιςStrong’s G3733ornis
Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament
In short
Ornis is the Greek word usually translated “hen”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.
“O 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!”
Meaning
Usually translated “hen”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- a hen 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
- Luke 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Greek dictionary
ὄρνις ornis · hen
ὄρνις, -ιθος, ὁ, ἡ [in LXX: ὄ. ἐκλεκταί, I2Ki.3:1 4:23 (3Ki.5:3) (בַּרְבֻּר)* ;] a bird; specif., a cock, a hen: Mat.23:3, Luk.13:34 (WH).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hen” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEN, noun
The female of any kind of fowl; but it is particularly applied to the female of the domestic fowl of the gallinaceous kind, or as sometimes called, the barn-door fowl.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.