νέφος

nevfo" nevfo",
nevfou" (allied with Latin nubes, nebula, etc.),
tov, the Septuagint for b[; and @n:[;, a cloud; in the N. T. once tropically, a large, dense multitude, a throng:
martuvrwn, ; often so in secular authors, as
nefw'n
Trowon,
pezw'n,
yarwn,
koloiwn, Homer, Iliad 4, 274; 16, 66; 17, 755; 23, 133;
ajnqrwvpwn, Herodotus 8, 109;
strouqw'n, Aristophanes av. 578;
ajkrivdwn, Diodorus 3, 29; peditum equitumque nubes, Livy 35, 49.*(Synonyms:
nevfo",
nefevlh:
nevfo" is general,
nefevlh specific; the former denotes the great, shapeless collection of vapor obscuring the heavens; the latter designates particular and definite masses of the same, suggesting form and limit. Cf. Schmidt vol. i., chapter 36.)