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Strong's G3520 νῆσος (nesos)

Nesos means “island” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3520 — kebuddah (“weightiness”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3520
Language Greek
Linked Usages 49
Books 11

Strong's G3520 Quick Answer

Strong's G3520 νῆσος (nesos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nesos (nay`-sos) n. 1. an island [probably from the base of G3491] It has 49 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include island and isle. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
nesos (nay`-sos) n. 1. an island [probably from the base of G3491]
Usage
49 linked usages
Books
11 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
island and isle

Meaning and Definition

nesos (nay`-sos) n. 1. an island [probably from the base of G3491] KJV: island, isle Root(s): G3491

Original Word
νῆσος
Transliteration
nesos
Derivation
Root: ναῦς R1: 3491
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3520. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's G3520 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nesos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

island Acts 27:26 isle Acts 13:6

How Strong's G3520 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 33 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3520 (νῆσος) appears 40 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3520 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3520 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 13:6 KJV

And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:

Acts 27:26 KJV

Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.

Acts 28:1 KJV

And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.

Strong's G3520 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

33 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 10:5 Septuagint / Brenton

From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.

Genesis 10:32 Septuagint / Brenton

These are the tribes of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, according to their nations: of them were the islands of the Gentiles scattered over the earth after the flood.

Psalms 71:10 Septuagint / Brenton

The kings of Tarshish, and the isles, shall bring presents: The kings of the Arabians and Seba shall offer gifts.

Strong's G3520 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 6:29 Septuagint / Brenton

There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.

1 Maccabees 8:11 Septuagint / Brenton

It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them;

1 Maccabees 11:38 Septuagint / Brenton

After this, when King Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers hated him.

Usage Excerpts

First 49 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3520.

Genesis 10:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.
Genesis 10:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the tribes of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, according to their nations: of them were the islands of the Gentiles scattered over the earth after the flood.
Psalms 71:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The kings of Tarshish, and the isles, shall bring presents: The kings of the Arabians and Seba shall offer gifts.
Psalms 96:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For David, when his land is established. The Lord reigns, let the earth exult, Let many islands rejoice.
Isaiah 20:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day, Behold, we trusted to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be saved?
Isaiah 23:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenicia, passing over the sea
Isaiah 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.
Isaiah 24:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.
Isaiah 41:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hold a feast to me, ye islands: for the princes shall renew their strength: let them draw nigh and speak together: then let them declare judgment.
Isaiah 42:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Sing a new hymn to the Lord: ye who are his dominion, glorify his name from the end of the earth: ye that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.
Isaiah 42:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall give glory to God, and shall proclaim his praises in the islands.
Isaiah 42:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.
Isaiah 45:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All that are opposed to him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame: ye isles, keep a feast to me.
Isaiah 49:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hearken to me, ye islands; and attend, ye Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, saith the Lord: from my mother’s womb he has called my name:
Isaiah 49:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord, even the Lord, Behold, I lift up my hand to the nations, and I will lift up my signal to the islands: and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and shall bear thy daughters on their shoulders.
Isaiah 51:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My righteousness speedily draws nigh, and my salvation shall go forth as light, and on mine arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
Isaiah 60:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The isles have waited for me, and the ships of Tarshish among the first, to bring thy children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and that for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.
Isaiah 66:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tarshish, and Pul, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Tubal, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Jeremiah 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For go to the isles of the Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;
Jeremiah 27:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven images; and in the islands, where they boasted.
Jeremiah 27:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited anymore forever.
Jeremiah 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines: and I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon, and all the rest of their allies: for the Lord will destroy the remaining inhabitants of the islands.
Jeremiah 38:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim them to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.
Ezekiel 26:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord God to Tyre; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee?
Ezekiel 26:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of thy fall.
Ezekiel 27:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou shalt say to Tyre that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Tyre; Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.
Ezekiel 27:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Bashan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Kittim.
Ezekiel 27:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honor upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became thy coverings.
Ezekiel 27:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sons of the Rhodesians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants’ teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices,
Ezekiel 27:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.
Ezekiel 39:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Daniel 11:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, and cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless his own reproach shall return to him.
Zephaniah 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship him every one from his place, even all the islands of the nations.
Acts 13:6 New Testament, KJV
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
Acts 27:26 New Testament, KJV
Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
Acts 28:1 New Testament, KJV
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
Acts 28:7 New Testament, KJV
In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
Acts 28:9 New Testament, KJV
So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
Acts 28:11 New Testament, KJV
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
Revelation 1:9 New Testament, KJV
I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 6:14 New Testament, KJV
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Revelation 16:20 New Testament, KJV
And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
1 Maccabees 6:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.
1 Maccabees 8:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them;
1 Maccabees 11:38 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
After this, when King Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers hated him.
1 Maccabees 14:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And as he was honorable in all his acts, so in this, that he took Joppa for a haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea,
1 Maccabees 15:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea unto Simon the priest and prince of the Jews, and to all the people;
Wisdom of Sirach 43:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, And planteth islands therein.
Wisdom of Sirach 47:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy name went far unto the islands; And for thy peace thou wast beloved.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3520, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 14 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 6 usages, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3520 FAQ

What does nesos (νῆσος) mean?

Nesos (Strong's G3520) is a Greek word most simply glossed "island". nesos (nay`-sos) n. 1. an island [probably from the base of G3491]

How many times is nesos (νῆσος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 49 linked usages for Strong's G3520 across 11 books.

Where can I study nesos (νῆσος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3520 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate nesos (νῆσος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as island and isle. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3520 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 33 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3520, with linked reader references where each row is available.