ΝΗΠΙΟΙΣ, νηπιοις
NĒPIOIS, nēpiois
Sounds Like: NAY-pee-oys
Translations: infants, children, little children, babes, simple-minded, immature, foolish, to infants, to children, to little children, to babes, to simple-minded, to immature, to foolish
From the root: ΝΗΠΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to infants or young children, but it can also be used metaphorically to describe someone who is immature, simple-minded, or foolish, lacking understanding or spiritual maturity. It is used here in the dative plural, indicating 'to' or 'for' these individuals.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G3516 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 5:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 18:9
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΗΠΙΟΣ.
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.
- ΝΗΠΙΑ — infants, children, babes
- ΝΗΠΙΟ — infant, child, a child, babe, a babe, immature, simple-minded, foolish
- ΝΗΠΙΟΙ — infants, children, babes, immature ones, simple-minded ones, unskilled ones
- ΝΗΠΙΟΝ — infant, a child, a little child, a babe, a simpleton, a foolish person, childish, immature
- ΝΗΠΙΟΣ — infant, a infant, child, a child, babe, a babe, immature, foolish, simple-minded, inexperienced
- ΝΗΠΙΟΥ — of a child, of an infant, of a baby, of a simpleton, of a fool
- ΝΗΠΙΟΥΣ — infants, children, babes, immature ones, simple-minded ones
- ΝΗΠΙΩ — (to) an infant, (to) a child, (to) a babe, (to) a foolish person, (to) an immature person
- ΝΗΠΙΩΝ — of infants, of children, of babes, of minors, of simple-minded people
- ΝΗΤΩΝ — of infants, of children, of babes, of the childlike, of the simple-minded
- ΤΕΝΗΠΙΟΣ — infant, a child, immature, simple-minded, foolish, inexperienced
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