υἱός,
υἱοῦ,
ὁ, from
Homer down, the
Sept. for
בֵּן and Chaldean
בַּר,
a son (male offspring);
1. properly,
a. rarely of the young of animals:
Matthew 21:5 (
Psalm 28:1 (
Ps. 29:1); Sir. 38:25); generally of the offspring of men, and in the restricted sense,
male issue (one begotten by a father and born of a mother):
Matthew 10:37;
Luke 1:13; (
Luke 14:5 L T Tr WH);
Acts 7:29;
Galatians 4:22, etc.;
ὁ υἱός τίνος,
Matthew 7:9;
Mark 9:17;
Luke 3:2;
John 1:42(
John 1:43), and very often, as in Greek writings,
υἱός is often to be supplied by the reader (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 3, p. 593 (551)): as
τόν τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου,
Matthew 4:21;
Mark 1:19. plural
υἱοί τίνος,
Matthew 20:20;
Luke 5:10;
John 4:12;
Acts 2:17;
Hebrews 11:21, etc. with the addition of an adjective, as
πρωτότοκος,
Matthew 1:25 (
R G);
Luke 2:7;
μονογενής,
Luke 7:12.
οἱ υἱοί, genuine sons, are distinguished from
οἱ νόθοι in
Hebrews 12:8. equivalent to
τέκνον with
ἄρσην added,
a man child (
Buttmann, 80 (70)),
Revelation 12:5; of one (actually or to be) regarded as a son, although properly not one,
John 19:26;
Acts 7:21;
Hebrews 11:24; in kindly address,
Hebrews 12:5 from
Proverbs 3:11 (see
τέκνον, a.
β.).
b. in a wider sense (like
θυγάτηρ,
τέκνον),
a descendant, one of the posterity of anyone:
τίνος,
Matthew 1:20;
ὁ υἱός Δαυίδ, of the Messiah,
Matthew 22:42,
45;
Mark 12:35,
37;
Luke 20:41,
44; of Jesus the Messiah,
Matthew 9:27;
Matthew 12:23;
Matthew 15:22;
Matthew 20:30;
Matthew 21:9,
15;
Mark 10:47;
Luke 18:38f plural
υἱοί τίνος,
Matthew 23:31;
Hebrews 7:5;
υἱοί Ἰσραήλ, Israelites (
the children of Israel),
Matthew 27:9;
Acts 9:15;
Acts 10:36;
2 Corinthians 3:7,
13;
Hebrews 11:21;
Revelation 2:14;
Revelation 7:4;
Revelation 21:12 (see
Ἰσραήλ);
υἱοί Ἀβραάμ,
sons of Abraham, is tropically applied to those who by their faith in Christ are akin to Abraham,
Galatians 3:7.
2. tropically and according to the Hebrew mode of speech (
Winer's Grammar, 33 (32)),
υἱός with the genitive of a person is used of one who depends on another or is his follower:
οἱ υἱοί of teachers, equivalent to
pupils (see
τέκνον, b.
β. (cf.
Irenaeus haer. 4, 41, 2 qui enim ab aliquo edoctus est, verbo filius docentis dicitur, et ille eius pater)),
Matthew 12:27;
Luke 11:19;
τοῦ πονηροῦ, who in thought and action are prompted by the evil one and obey him,
Matthew 13:38;
υἱός διαβόλου,
Acts 13:10; with the genitive of a thing, one who is connected with or belongs to a thing by any kind of close relationship (
Winers Grammar, § 34, 3 N. 2;
Buttmann, § 132, 10):
υἱοί τοῦ νυμφῶνος (see
νυμφών),
Matthew 9:15;
Mark 2:19;
Luke 5:34 (
τῆς ἄκρας, the garrison of the citadel, 1 Macc. 4:2; in Ossian 'a son of the hill' i. e. 'a hunter', 'a son of the sea' i. e. 'a sailor'; cf. Jen. Lit. Zeit. for 1836 No. 58, p. 462f);
τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, those whose character belongs to this age (is 'worldly'),
Luke 16:8;
Luke 20:34;
τῆς ἀπειθείας, i. e.
ἀπειθεῖς,
Ephesians 2:2;
Ephesians 5:6;
Colossians 3:6 (here
T Tr WH omit;
L brackets the clause) (
ἀνομίας, Psalm 88:23 (
Ps. 89:23);
τῆς ὑπερηφανίας, 1 Macc. 2:47);
βροντῆς, who resemble thunder, thundering (see
Βοανεργές),
Mark 3:17;
τοῦ φωτός, instructed in evangelical truth and devotedly obedient to it,
Luke 16:8;
John 12:36; with
καί τῆς ἡμέρας added,
1 Thessalonians 5:5;
τῆς ἀναστάσεως, sharers in the resurrection,
Luke 20:36;
παρακλήσεως,
Acts 4:36; one to whom anything belongs: as
υἱοί τῶν προφητῶν καί τῆς διαθήκης, those to whom the prophetic and covenant promises belong,
Acts 3:25; for whom a thing is destined, as
υἱοί τῆς βασιλείας,
Matthew 8:12;
Matthew 13:38;
τῆς ἀπωλείας,
John 17:12;
2 Thessalonians 2:3; one who is worthy of a thing, as
γηννης,
Matthew 23:15;
εἰρήνης,
Luke 10:6 (
θανάτου,
1 Samuel 20:31;
2 Samuel 12:5;
הַכּות בִּן, the
Sept. ἄξιος πληγῶν,
Deuteronomy 25:2). (Synonym: see
τέκνον.)