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Lexicon :: Strong's G3816 - pais

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παῖς
Transliteration
pais (Key)
Pronunciation
paheece
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from παίω (G3817)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:636,759

Strong’s Definitions

παῖς paîs, paheece; perhaps from G3817; a boy (as often beaten with impunity), or (by analogy), a girl, and (genitive case) a child; specially, a slave or servant (especially a minister to a king; and by eminence to God):—child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's G3816 in the following manner: servant (10x), child (7x), son (Christ) (2x), son (1x), manservant (1x), maid (1x), maiden (1x), young man (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's G3816 in the following manner: servant (10x), child (7x), son (Christ) (2x), son (1x), manservant (1x), maid (1x), maiden (1x), young man (1x).

  1. a child, boy or girl

    1. infants, children

  2. servant, slave

    1. an attendant, servant, spec. a king's attendant, minister

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παῖς paîs, paheece; perhaps from G3817; a boy (as often beaten with impunity), or (by analogy), a girl, and (genitive case) a child; specially, a slave or servant (especially a minister to a king; and by eminence to God):—child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.
STRONGS G3816:
παῖς, genitive παιδός, ὁ, ἡ, from Homer down; in the N. T. only in the Gospels and Acts;
1. a child, boy or girl; the Sept. for נַעַר and נַעֲרָה (Genesis 24:28; Deuteronomy 22:15, etc.): ὁ παῖς, Matthew 17:18; Luke 2:43; Luke 9:42; Acts 20:12; ἡ παῖς, Luke 8:51, 54; plural infants, children, Matthew 2:16; Matthew 21:15; ὁ παῖς τίνος, the son of one, John 4:51.
2. (Like the Latin puer, equivalent to) servant, slave (Aeschylus choëph. 652; Aristophanes nub. 18, 132; Xenophon, mem. 3, 13, 6; symp. 1, 11; 2, 23; Plato, Charm., p. 155 a.; Protag., p. 310c. and often; Diodorus 17, 76; others; so the Sept. times without number for עֶבֶד (cf. Winers Grammar, p. 30, no. 3); cf. the similar use of German Bursch (French garcon, English boy)): Matthew 8:6, 8, 13; Luke 7:7 cf. Luke 7:10; Luke 12:45; Luke 15:26. an attendant, servant, specifically, a king's attendant, minister: Matthew 14:2 (Diodorus 17:36; hardly so in the earlier Greek writings; Genesis 41:37; 1 Samuel 16:15-17; 1 Samuel 18:22, 26; Daniel 2:7; 1 Macc. 1:6, 8; 1 Esdr. 2:16 1 Esdr. 5:33, 35); hence, in imitation of the Hebrew יְהוָה עֶבֶד, παῖς τοῦ Θεοῦ is used of a devout worshipper of God, one who fulfils God's will (Psalm 68:18 (Ps. 69:18); Psalm 112:1 (Ps. 113:1); Wis. 2:13, etc.) thus, the people of Israel, Luke 1:54 (Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:19; Isaiah 44:1f, 21, etc.); David, Luke 1:69; Acts 4:25 (Psalm 17:1 (Ps. 18:1); Ps 35:1 (Ps. 36:1) (Ald., Complutensian), etc.); likewise any upright and godly man whose agency God employs in executing his purposes; thus in the N. T. Jesus the Messiah: Matthew 12:18 (from Isaiah 42:1); Acts 3:13, 26; Acts 4:27, 30 (cf. Harnack on the Epistle of Barnabas 6, 1 and Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 2 ); in the O. T. also Moses, Nehemiah 1:7f; the prophets, 1 Esdr. 8:79(81); Baruch 2:20, 24; and others. [Synonym: παῖς, παιδάριον, παιδίον, παιδίσκη, τέκνον: The grammarian Aristophanes is quoted by Ammonius (s.v. γέρων) as defining thus: παιδίον, τὸ τρεφόμενον ὑπὸ τιθηνοῦ· παιδάριον δέ, τὸ ἤδη περιπατοῦν καὶ τῆς λέξεως ἀντεχόμενον· παιδίσκος δʹ͵ ὁ ἐν τῂ ἐχομένῃ ἡλικίᾳ· παῖς δʹ διὰ τῶν ἐγκυκλίων μαθημάτων δυνάμενος ἰέναι· Philo (de mund. opif. §36) quotes the physician Hippocrates as follows; ἐν ἀνθρώπου ϕύσει ἑπτά έἰσιν ὧραι κ.τ.λ.· παιδίον μέν ἐστιν ἄχρις ἑπτὰ ἐτῶν͵ ὀδόντων ἐκβολῆς· ταῖς δὲ ἄχρι γονῆς ἐκϕύσεως͵ εἰς τὰ δὶς ἑπτά· μειράκιον δὲ ἄχρι γενείου λαχνώσεως͵ ἐς τὰ τρὶς ἑπτά͵ etc., According to Schmidt, παιδίον denotes a child up to its first school years; παῖς is a child of any age; (παιδίσκος and παιδίσκη, in which reference to descent quite disappears, cover the years of late childhood and early youth. But usage is untrammelled; from a child is expressed either by ἐκ παιδός (most frequently). or ἐκ παιδίου, or ἐκ (ὰπό) παιδαρίου. παῖς and τέκνον denote a child alike as respects descent and age, reference to the latter being more prominent in the former word, to descent in τέκνον; but the period παῖς covers is not sharply defined; and, in classic usage as in modern, youthful designations cleave to the female sex longer than to the male. See Schmidt ch. 69; Höhne in Luthardt's Zeitschrift u. s. w. for 1882, p. 57 sqq.] On the elasticity of the term παῖς as respects age, see Bp. Lghtft. Apostolic Fathers, Pt. II. vol. i. p. 432 note.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
24:28; 41:37
Deuteronomy
22:15
1 Samuel
16:15; 16:16; 16:17; 18:22; 18:26
Nehemiah
1:7
Psalms
17:1; 18:1; 35:1; 36:1; 68:18; 69:18; 112:1; 113:1
Isaiah
41:8; 42:1; 42:19; 44:1; 44:21
Daniel
1; 2:7
Matthew
2:16; 8:6; 8:8; 8:13; 12:18; 14:2; 17:18; 21:15
Luke
1:54; 1:69; 2:43; 7:7; 7:10; 8:51; 8:54; 9:42; 12:45; 15:26
John
4:51
Acts
3:13; 3:26; 4:25; 4:27; 4:30; 20:12

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
24:28; 41:37
Deuteronomy
22:15
1 Samuel
16:15; 16:16; 16:17; 18:22; 18:26
Nehemiah
1:7
Psalms
17:1; 18:1; 35:1; 36:1; 68:18; 69:18; 112:1; 113:1
Isaiah
41:8; 42:1; 42:19; 44:1; 44:21
Daniel
1; 2:7
Matthew
2:16; 8:6; 8:8; 8:13; 12:18; 14:2; 17:18; 21:15
Luke
1:54; 1:69; 2:43; 7:7; 7:10; 8:51; 8:54; 9:42; 12:45; 15:26
John
4:51
Acts
3:13; 3:26; 4:25; 4:27; 4:30; 20:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3816 matches the Greek παῖς (pais),
which occurs 20 times in 19 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and symbol against Egypt and [fn]Cush,

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“Then it will come about on that day,

That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:2 - And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the female servant like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

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Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we [fn]understand it; and do not speak to us in [fn]Judean [fn]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:5

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So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35 - ‘For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:8

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“But you, Israel, My servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

Descendant of Abraham My friend,

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You whom I have [fn]taken from the ends of the earth

And called from its remotest parts,

And said to you, ‘You are My servant,

I have chosen you and have not rejected you.

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“Behold, My Servant, whom I [fn]uphold;

My chosen one in whom My soul delights.

I have put My Spirit upon Him;

He will bring forth justice to the [fn]nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:19

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Who is blind but My servant,

Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send?

Who is so blind as one who is [fn]at peace with Me,

Or so blind as the servant of the LORD?

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“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,

“And My servant whom I have chosen,

So that you may know and believe Me

And understand that I am He.

Before Me there was no God formed,

And there will be none after Me.

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“But now listen, Jacob, My servant,

And Israel, whom I have chosen:

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This is what the LORD says, He who made you

And formed you from the womb, who will help you:

‘Do not fear, Jacob My servant,

And [fn]Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:21

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“Remember these things, Jacob,

And Israel, for you are My servant;

I have formed you, you are My servant,

Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me.

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Confirming the word of His servant

And [fn]carrying out the purpose of His messengers.

It is I who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited!’

And of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built.’

And I will raise her ruins again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4

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“For the sake of Jacob My servant,

And Israel My chosen one,

I have also called you by your name;

I have given you a title of honor

Though you have not known Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6

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He says, “It is too [fn]small a thing that You should be My Servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the protected ones of Israel;

I will also make You a light [fn]of the nations

So that My salvation may [fn]reach to the end of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:10

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Who is among you who fears the LORD,

Who obeys the voice of His servant,

Who walks in darkness and has no light?

Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:13

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Behold, My Servant will prosper,

He will be high and lifted up and [fn]greatly exalted.

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