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Strong's #3516 - νήπιος
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- an infant, little child
- a minor, not of age
- metaph. childish, untaught, unskilled
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νήπῐος, α (Sor. 1.7, al.), Ion. η, ον, also ος, ον Lyc. 638: —
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1. infant, child, freq. in Hom., νήπιον, οὔ πω εἰδόθ' ὁμοιίου πολέμοιο Il. 9.440; νήπια τέκνα 2.136, etc.; βρέφος ἔτ' ὄντα ν. E. Ion 1399, cf. Andr. 755, etc.; νηπίους ἔτι Id. Heracl. 956; τὸ ν. Pl. Ax. 366d; ἁρμόττουσα τοῖς ν. [πλαταγή] Arist. Pol. 1340b30; ἐκ νηπίου from a child, from infancy, [τὸ ἡδὺ] ἐκ ν. ἡμῖν συντέθραπται Id. EN 1105a2; ἐκ νηπίων Plb. 4.20.8; ἐκ ν. ἡλικίας PFlor. 36.5 (iv A.D.); infant in law, minor, ἐφ' ὅσον ὁ κληρονόμος ν. ἐστιν Galatians 4:1; of children up to puberty, αἱ τῶν ν. ἐκλάμψιες Hp. Epid. 6.1.4 (cf. Herophil. ap. Gal. 17(1).826); but of the foetus in its early stage, Hp. Aph. 4.1 (cf. Gal. 17(1).653).
2. less freq. of animals, Il. 2.311, 11.113; νήπια alone, the young of an animal, 17.134.
3. of plants, Thphr. HP 8.1.7.
II metaph.,
1. of the understanding, childish, silly, Od. 13.237; μέγα ν. Il. 16.46, cf. Od. 9.44; simply, without foresight, blind, Il. 22.445; ἀνὴρ ν. Heraclit. 79, cf. Emp. 11.1, Pi. P. 3.82, A. Pr. 443, Democr. 76, etc.; ν. ὃς.. γονέων ἐπιλάθεται S. El. 145 (lyr.); οὔτε πρὶν νήπιον, νῦν τ'.. μέγαν no child before and now full-grown (i.e. in mind), Id. OT 652 (lyr.); of words, νήπια βάζεις Pi. Fr. 157; ἀντιτείνειν νήπι' ἀντὶ νηπίων E. Med. 891; μηδὲν εἴπῃς ν. Ar. Nu. 105.
2. of bodily strength, like that of a child, βίη δέ τε ν. αὐτῶν Il. 11.561.
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
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νήπιος , -α , -ον ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5768, also for H6612, etc.;]
infant; of children and minors: Matthew 21:16 (LXX), 1 Corinthians 13:11, Galatians 4:1 (v. Lft., in l). Metaph., childish, unskilled, simple (Psalms 19:8, Proverbs 1:32 al.): Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21, Romans 2:20, Galatians 4:3, Ephesians 4:14, 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (WH, fox ἤπιοι ); opp. to τέλειος , Hebrews 5:13; ν . ἐν Χριστῷ , 1 Corinthians 3:1.†
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This late Greek verb (cf. Lob. Phryn. p. 373), which in the NT is confined to 1 Timothy 5:14, occurs in the horoscopes P Oxy II. 235.16 (A.D. 20–50) οἰκοδεσποτεῖ Ἀφροδ [ίτη, P Lond 130.163 (i/ii A.D.) (= I. p. 137) δι᾽ ὃ οἰκοδεσποτήσει τὸ διάθεμα.
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