νήπιος
nēpios
“child”
Definition
not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian
from an obsolete particle (implying negation) and G2031 (ἔπος);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
G:A
Greek Adjective
Occurrences
νήπιος appears 11 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.
What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.
For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
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