Senses
1. cloud — An atmospheric mass of condensed water vapor, used in the NT both for literal meteorological clouds and for theophanic clouds associated with divine presence (the Transfiguration cloud, the cloud of Christ's return, the cloud receiving Jesus at the Ascension). The two clusters differ only in grammatical number: S72693 is singular (nominative, genitive, accusative, dative) and S72694 is plural (genitive, dative, nominative). Translations are uniform: Spanish 'nube/nubes', Hindi बादल/बादलों, Arabic سحابة/سحب, Korean 구름/구름들, Swahili 'wingu/mawingu'. Both literal and theophanic uses appear in both clusters, so this is purely inflectional, not semantic. 25×
AR["السَّحَابَةِ","سَحابَةً","سَحابَةٌ","سَحابَةٍ","سَحابَةِ","سَحَابَةً","سَحَابَةٌ","سَحَابَةِ","سُحُبِ"]·ben["মেঘ","মেঘ-থেকে","মেঘগুলির","মেঘে","মেঘে,","মেঘের"]·DE["Wolke"]·EN["a-cloud","cloud","clouds","with-a-cloud"]·FR["nuée"]·heb["הֶעָנָן","עַנְנֵי","עָנָן"]·HI["उसे-उठा-लिया","बदल","बादल","बादलों"]·ID["awan","awan,","awan-awan","awan;"]·IT["nuvola"]·jav["mega","mega,","méga"]·KO["구름","구름-속으로","구름-이","구름들","구름들의","구름에","구름에서","구름을","구름이","그리고"]·PT["nuvem","nuvem,","nuvens","uma-nuvem"]·RU["облака","облаках","облаке","облаке,","облаке;","облако","облаком","облаком,"]·ES["nube","nubes"]·SW["mawingu","wingu","wingu,","wingu;","ya-"]·TR["bir-bulut","bulut","bulutların","bulutlarının","bulutta","buluttan","buluttan,","bulutu","bulutun","bulutun.","o-"]·urd["بادل","بادل-سے","بادل-نے","بادلوں","بادلوں-پر"]
Matt 17:5, Matt 17:5, Matt 24:30, Matt 26:64, Mark 9:7, Mark 9:7, Mark 13:26, Mark 14:62, Luke 9:34, Luke 9:34, Luke 9:35, Luke 12:54 (+13 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
νεφέλη, ἡ, (νέφος) cloud, mass of clouds (distinguished from ὁμίχλη, mist or fog, Refs 8th c.BC+; ν. κυανέη, πορφυρέη, Refs 8th c.BC+—Mostly poetry, but found in Refs 5th c.BC+ [same places], and in late Prose, Refs 1st c.AD+ __2 metaphorically, νεφέλη δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψε κυανέη, of death, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὸν δ᾽ ἄχεος νεφέλη ἐκάλυψε μέλαινα a cloud of sorrow,Refs 5th c.BC+; Κενταύρου φονίᾳ νεφέλᾳ,…