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Strong's G3577 νῶτος (notos)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3577 — kazab (“false”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3577
Language Greek
Linked Usages 44
Books 20

Strong's G3577 Quick Answer

Strong's G3577 νῶτος (notos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. notos (no`-tos) n. 1. the back [of uncertain affinity] It has 44 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include back. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
notos (no`-tos) n. 1. the back [of uncertain affinity]
Usage
44 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
back

Meaning and Definition

notos (no`-tos) n. 1. the back [of uncertain affinity] KJV: back

Original Word
νῶτος
Transliteration
notos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3577. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

back

Usage: νῶτος, -ου, ὁ in Att.. most frequently τὸ νῶτον, and in pl. always τὰ νῶτα, [in LXX, ὁ ν., pl., οἱ νῶτοι and τὰ νῶτα, chiefly for כָּתֵף, also for עֹרֶף, מֹתֶן ;] /the back: Rom.11:10 (LXX).† (AS)

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How Strong's G3577 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render notos, 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.

How Strong's G3577 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. 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 39 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 G3577 (νῶτος) appears 47 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3577 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 G3577 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Romans 11:10 KJV

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

Strong's G3577 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 9:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And Shem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.

Genesis 49:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Judah, thy brethren have praised thee, And thy hands shall be on the back of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall do thee reverence.

Exodus 37:12 Septuagint / Brenton

and their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Strong's G3577 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

3 Maccabees 3:24 Septuagint / Brenton

Having then, received certain proofs that these Jews bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.

4 Maccabees 11:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.

Wisdom of Sirach 21:15 Septuagint / Brenton

If a skillful man hear a wise word, He will commend it, and add unto it: But when one of no understanding heareth it, it displeaseth him, And he casteth it behind his back.

Usage Excerpts

First 44 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3577.

Genesis 9:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Shem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.
Genesis 49:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Judah, thy brethren have praised thee, And thy hands shall be on the back of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall do thee reverence.
Exodus 37:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 37:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And at the second back on this side and on that by the gate of the court, curtains of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three;
Numbers 34:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah eastward to the fountains, and the border shall go down from Riblah behind the sea Chinnereth eastward.
Joshua 15:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the borders go up to the Valley of Hinnom, behind Jebus southward; this is Jerusalem: and the borders terminate at the top of the mountain, which is before the Valley of Hinnom toward the sea, which is by the side of the land of Rephaim northward.
Joshua 15:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the border will go round from Baalah to the sea, and will go on to the mount of Seir behind the city of Jearim northward; this is Chesalon: and it will come down to the city of the Sun, and will go on to the south.
Joshua 15:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the border terminates behind Ekron northward, and the borders will terminate at Shikkeron, and the borders will go on to the south, and will terminate at Jabneel, and the issue of the borders will be at the sea; and their borders shall be toward the sea, the great sea shall be the boundary.
Joshua 18:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their borders were northward: the borders shall go up from Jordan behind Jericho northward, and shall go up to the mountain westward, and the issue of it shall be Beth-aven of Mabdara.
Joshua 18:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the borders will go forth thence to Luz, behind Luz, from the south of it; this is Bethel: and the borders shall go down to Ataroth-addar, to the hill country, which is southward of Beth-horon the lower.
Joshua 18:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the borders shall extend down on one side, this is in front of the forest of Hinnom, which is on the side of Emec Rephaim northward, and it shall come down to Gai-hinnom behind Jebus southward: it shall come down to the fountain of Rogel.
Joshua 18:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall proceed to Geliloth, which is in front by the going up of Adummim; and they shall come down to the stone of Bohan of the sons of Reuben; and shall pass over behind Beth-arabah northward, and shall go down to the borders behind the sea northward.
Joshua 18:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the termination of the borders shall be at the creek of the salt sea northward to the side of Jordan southward: these are their southern borders.
1 Kingdoms 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when he mentioned the ark of God, that he fell from the seat backward near the gate, and his back was broken, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy: and he judged Israel twenty years.
2 Kingdoms 22:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast caused mine enemies to flee before me, Even them that hated me, and thou hast slain them.
3 Kingdoms 7:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.
4 Kingdoms 17:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they hearkened not, and made their neck harder than the neck of their fathers.
Nehemiah 9:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Job 15:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has run against him with insolence, On the thickness of the back of his shield.
Psalms 17:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast made mine enemies turn their backs before me; And thou hast destroyed them that hated me.
Psalms 20:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou shalt make them turn their back in thy latter end, Thou wilt prepare their face.
Psalms 65:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou broughtest us into the snare; Thou laidest afflictions on our back.
Psalms 68:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; And bow down their back continually.
Psalms 80:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He removed his back from burdens: His hands slaved in making the baskets.
Psalms 128:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sinners wrought upon my back: They prolonged their iniquity.
Isaiah 17:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water;
Isaiah 50:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:
Jeremiah 2:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me: and they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.
Jeremiah 31:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How has he changed! how has Moab turned his back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughingstock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.
Jeremiah 39:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they turned the back to me, and not the face: whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they hearkened no more to receive instruction.
Ezekiel 1:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
neither did their backs turn: and they were high: and I beheld them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about.
Ezekiel 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels.
Ezekiel 40:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the porticoes were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle.
Ezekiel 40:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behind the drain for the whole burnt offerings at the north gate, two tables eastward behind the second gate; and behind the porch of the gate two tables eastward.
Ezekiel 40:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.
Ezekiel 40:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought me into the inner court, and behold there were two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north.
Ezekiel 42:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 46:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought me into the entrance of the place behind the gate, into the chamber of the sanctuary belonging to the priests, that looks toward the north: and, behold, there was a place set apart.
Zechariah 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.
Romans 11:10 New Testament, KJV
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
3 Maccabees 3:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Having then, received certain proofs that these Jews bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.
4 Maccabees 11:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.
Wisdom of Sirach 21:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
If a skillful man hear a wise word, He will commend it, and add unto it: But when one of no understanding heareth it, it displeaseth him, And he casteth it behind his back.
Baruch 2:33 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3577, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3577 FAQ

What does notos (νῶτος) mean?

Notos (Strong's G3577) is a Greek word most simply glossed "back". notos (no`-tos) n. 1. the back [of uncertain affinity]

How many times is notos (νῶτος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 44 linked usages for Strong's G3577 across 20 books.

Where can I study notos (νῶτος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3577 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate notos (νῶτος)?

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

Does Strong's G3577 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 39 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3577, with linked reader references where each row is available.