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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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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 383 times in 352 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 8 (Gen 9:25–Gen 39:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - Then he said:

“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:26 - And he said:

“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem,
And may Canaan be his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:27 - May God enlarge Japheth,
And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be his servant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:15 - He divided his forces against them by night, and he and his servants attacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:3 - and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:5 - “And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.” They said, “Do as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - “Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - So Abimelech rose early in the morning, called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were very much afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad[fn] and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:2 - So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please, put your hand under my thigh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - And the servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:9 - So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, for all his master’s goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - “Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - And the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - So the young woman ran and told her mother’s household these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:34 - So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - “The LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:52 - And it came to pass, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, that he worshiped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - Then the servant brought out jewelry of silver, jewelry of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57 - So they said, “We will call the young woman and ask her personally.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:61

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:65

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:65 - for she had said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a veil and covered herself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:66 - And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 - And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his father had called them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - Also Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found a well of running water there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - So he built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - It came to pass the same day that Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:43 - Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, “Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - “I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:10 - “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16 - Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - “then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - “and also say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?” So he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Then Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” And he said, “These are to find favor in the sight of my lord.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - “Please let my lord go on ahead before his servant. I will lead on slowly at a pace which the livestock that go before me, and the children, are able to endure, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - “Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 - that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, “See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

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