ΝΗΠΙΟΣ, νηπιος
NĒPIOS, nēpios
Sounds Like: NAY-pee-os
Translations: infant, a infant, child, a child, babe, a babe, immature, foolish, simple-minded, inexperienced
From the root: ΝΗΠΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to someone who is an infant or a young child, implying a lack of maturity, understanding, or experience. It can be used literally to describe a baby, or metaphorically to describe someone who is spiritually or intellectually immature, simple-minded, or foolish. It often carries the connotation of being unable to speak or reason fully.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3516 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 5:237
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
- ΝΗΠΙΟΙΣ — 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
- ΝΗΠΙΟΝ — infant, a child, a little child, a babe, a simpleton, a foolish person, childish, immature
- 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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