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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 [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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:25 - His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:7 - The law of the LORD is perfect, converting 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 shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:6 - The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:130

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:130 - The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 - For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:8 - And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon 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: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain 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 sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:10 - Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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