2001 Translation

BREPHĒ, brephē

Sounds Like: BREH-fee

Translations: infants, babies, newborns, children

From the root: ΒΡΕΦΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to very young children, specifically infants or babies, often those who are not yet able to speak. It is used to describe a child from birth up to a few years old. In the provided context, it is used in the plural form.

Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative

Strong’s number: G1025 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 1:61
• Luke — 18:15
• Acts of the Apostles — 7:19
• 1 Peter — 2:2

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 1:61
• 2 Maccabees — 6:10
• 3 Maccabees — 5:49

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 29:1, 29:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 18:15
• Acts — 7:19
• 1 Peter — 2:2

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΡΕΦΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΒΡΕΦΟΣ — infant, baby, a baby, a child, a newborn
• ΒΡΕΦΟΥΣ — of an infant, of a baby, of a child, infant, baby, child
• ΒΡΕΦΩΝ — of infants, of babies, of children

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