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Lexicon :: Strong's G3516 - nēpios

Aa
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)
Dictionary Aids

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 Box1Sa 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 Box1Sa 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

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 strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 -
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
As infants that never saw light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 -
From out of the populous city men groan,
And the soul of the wounded crieth out:
Yet God regardeth not the folly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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 BoxJob 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:25 -
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s;
He returneth to the days of his youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 -
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength,
Because of thine adversaries,
That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 -
From men by thy hand, O Jehovah,
From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure:
They are satisfied with children,
And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:7 -
The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul:
The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7 -
But God will shoot at them;
With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:6 -
Jehovah preserveth the simple:
I was brought low, and he saved me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:130

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 -
For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them,
And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 -
Withhold not correction from the child;
For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 adder’s den.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, 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 BoxJer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death is come up into our windows, it 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 BoxJer 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - the men, and the women, and the 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 BoxJer 44:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 -
Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper;
For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:
Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 -
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled;
My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 -
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;
Pour out thy 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 at the head of every street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20

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See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus!
Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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 BoxEze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, 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 old men that were before the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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 BoxJoe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 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 head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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