Lexical Summary nēpios: an infant, a simple-minded or immature person Original Word: νήπιοςTransliteration: nēpios Phonetic Spelling: (nay'-pee-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: an infant, a simple-minded or immature person Meaning: an infant, a simple-minded or immature person Strong's Concordance an infant, childFrom an obsolete particle ne- (implying negation) and epos; not speaking, i.e. An infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian -- babe, child (+ -ish). see GREEK epos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3516: νήπιοςνήπιος, 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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