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Lexicon :: Strong's G3516 - nēpios

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νήπιος
Transliteration
nēpios (Key)
Pronunciation
nay'-pee-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From an obsolete particle ne- (implying negation) and ἔπος (G2031)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:912,631

Strong’s Definitions

νήπιος nḗpios, nay'-pee-os; from an obsolete particle νή- nḗ- (implying negation) and G2031; not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian:—babe, child (+ -ish).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G3516 in the following manner: child (7x), babe (6x), childish (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G3516 in the following manner: child (7x), babe (6x), childish (1x).
  1. an infant, little child

  2. a minor, not of age

  3. metaph. childish, untaught, unskilled

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
νήπιος nḗpios, nay'-pee-os; from an obsolete particle νή- nḗ- (implying negation) and G2031; not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian:—babe, child (+ -ish).
STRONGS G3516:
νήπιος, νήπια, νήπιον (from νή, an insep. neg. prefix (Latinnefas, nequam, nisi, etc. cf. Curtius, § 437), and ἔπος); as in Greek writers from Homer down,
a. an infant, little child: Matthew 21:16 (from Psalm 8:3 [Psalm 8:2]); 1 Corinthians 13:11; the Sept. especially for עולֵל and עולָל.
b. a minor, not of age: Galatians 4:1 (cf. Lightfoot at the passage).
c. metaphorically, childish, untaught, unskilled (the Sept. for פְּתִי, Psalm 18:8 (Ps. 19:8); Psalm 118:130 (Ps. 119:130); Proverbs 1:32): Matthew 11:25; Luke 10:21; Romans 2:20; Galatians 4:3; Ephesians 4:14; opposed to τέλειοι, the more advanced in understanding and knowledge, Hebrews 5:13f. (Philo de agric. § 2); νηπίοις ἐν Χριστῷ, in things pertaining to Christ, 1 Corinthians 3:1. In 1 Thessalonians 2:7 L WH (cf. the latter's note at the passage) have hastily received νήπιοι for the common reading ἤπιοι.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
8:3; 18:8; 19:8; 119:130
Proverbs
1:32
Matthew
11:25; 21:16
Luke
10:21
Romans
2:20
1 Corinthians
3:1; 13:11
Galatians
4:1; 4:3
Ephesians
4:14
1 Thessalonians
2:7
Hebrews
5:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3516 matches the Greek νήπιος (nēpios),
which occurs 30 times in 30 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - So he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and nursing babies; also oxen, donkeys, and sheep he struck with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 -

“Or why was I not like a miscarriage hidden away,

As infants that never saw light?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 -

“From the city men groan,

And the souls of the wounded cry out;

Yet God does not pay attention to such offense.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 -

May my wife grind for another,

And let others [fn]kneel down over her.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:25 -

Let his flesh become fresher than in youth,

Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 -

From the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have established [fn]strength

Because of Your adversaries,

To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 -

From men with Your hand, O Yahweh,

From men [fn]of the world, whose portion is in this life,

And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;

They are satisfied with children,

And leave their excess to their infants.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:7 -

The law of Yahweh is [fn]perfect, restoring the soul;

The testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7 -

But God [fn]will shoot them with an arrow;

Suddenly they will be wounded.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:6 -

Yahweh keeps the simple;

I was brought low, and He saved me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:130 -

The unfolding of Your words gives light;

It gives understanding to the simple.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 -

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your infants

Against the cliff.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 -

“For the turning away of the simple will kill them,

And the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 -

Do not withhold discipline from the child,

Although you [fn]strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:8 -

And the nursing baby will play by the hole of the cobra,

And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 -

But I am full of the wrath of Yahweh;

I am weary of holding it in.

“Pour it out on the infants in the street

And on the [fn]gathering of choice men together;

For both husband and wife shall be captured,

The aged with the one full of days.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 -

For death has come up through our windows;

It has entered our palaces

To cut off the infants from the streets,

The choice men from the open squares.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - the men, the women, the little ones, the king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam [fn]and grandson of Shaphan, together with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - ‘So now, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you doing great evil against yourselves, so as to cut off from you man and woman, infant and nursing baby, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 -

He

Her adversaries have become [fn]her masters;

Her enemies are complacent;

For [fn]Yahweh has caused her grief

Because of the greatness of her transgressions;

Her infants have gone away

As captives before the adversary.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 -

Kaph

My eyes fail because of tears;

My [fn]inmost being is greatly disturbed;

My [fn]heart is poured out on the earth

Because of the [fn]destruction of the daughter of my people,

When infants and nursing babies faint

In the open squares of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 -

Qoph

“Arise, cry aloud in the night

At the head of the night watches;

Pour out your heart like water

Before the presence of the Lord;

Lift up your hands to Him

For the life of your infants

Who are faint because of hunger

At the head of every street.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 -

Resh

See, O Yahweh, and look!

With whom have You dealt thus?

Should women eat their [fn]offspring,

The infants who were [fn]born healthy?

Should priest and prophet be killed

In the sanctuary of the Lord?

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 -

Daleth

The tongue of the nursing baby cleaves

To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;

The infants ask for bread,

But no one breaks it for them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - “Kill to utter destruction old men, chosen men, virgins, little ones, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the [fn]elders who were before the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:1 -

When Israel was a youth I loved him,

And out of Egypt I called My son.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 -

Gather the people, set apart the congregation as holy,

Assemble the elders,

Gather the infants and the nursing babies.

Let the bridegroom come out of his room

And the bride out of her bridal chamber.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:10 -

Yet she became an exile;

She went into captivity;

Also her infants were dashed to pieces

At the head of every street;

They cast lots for her honorable men,

And all her great men were bound with fetters.

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