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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)
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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); 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction[fn] all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - From out of the city the dying[fn] groan,
and the soul of the wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - then let my wife grind for another,
and let others bow down on her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:25 - let his flesh become fresh with youth;
let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - from men by your hand, O LORD,
from men of the world whose portion is in this life.[fn]
You fill their womb with treasure;[fn]
they are satisfied with children,
and they leave their abundance to their infants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:7 - The law of the LORD is perfect,[fn]
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the LORD is sure,
making wise the simple;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 64:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7 - But God shoots his arrow at them;
they are wounded suddenly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:6 - The LORD preserves the simple;
when I was brought low, he saved me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:130

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:130 - The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 - For the simple are killed by their turning away,
and the complacency of fools destroys them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:8 - The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD;
I am weary of holding it in.
“Pour it out upon the children in the street,
and upon the gatherings of young men, also;
both husband and wife shall be taken,
the elderly and the very aged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her foes have become the head;
her enemies prosper,
because the LORD has afflicted her
for the multitude of her transgressions;
her children have gone away,
captives before the foe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 - My eyes are spent with weeping;
my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out to the ground
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because infants and babies faint
in the streets of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 - “Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the night watches!
Pour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
Lift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
who faint for hunger
at the head of every street.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - Look, O LORD, and see!
With whom have you dealt thus?
Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
the children of their tender care?
Should priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - The tongue of the nursing infant sticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
the children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:1 - When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
gather the children,
even nursing infants.
Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:10 - Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity;
her infants were dashed in pieces
at the head of every street;
for her honored men lots were cast,
and all her great men were bound in chains.
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