G1025
βρέφος
brephos
bref'-os
Noun Neuter
of uncertain affinity; an infant (properly, unborn) literally or figuratively:--babe, (young) child, infant.
- an unborn child, embryo, a foetus
- a new-born child, an infant, a babe
Strong's Number G1025 Bible Verses
G3808
παιδάριον
paidarion
pahee-dar'-ee-on
Noun Neuter
neuter of a presumed derivative of G3816; a little boy:--child, lad.
- little boy, a lad
Strong's Number G3808 Bible Verses
G3813
παιδίον
paidion
pahee-dee'-on
Noun Neuter
neuter diminutive of G3816; a childling (of either sex), i.e. (properly), an infant, or (by extension) a half-grown boy or girl; figuratively, an immature Christian:--(little, young) child, damsel.
- a young child, a little boy, a little girl
- infants
- children, little ones
- an infant
- of a (male) child just recently born
- of a more advanced child; of a mature child;
- metaph. children (like children) in intellect
Strong's Number G3813 Bible Verses
G3816
παῖς
pais
paheece
Noun
perhaps from G3817; a boy (as often beaten with impunity), or (by analogy), a girl, and (genitive case) a child; specially, a slave or servant (especially a minister to a king; and by eminence to God):--child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.
- a child, boy or girl
- infants, children
- servant, slave
- an attendant, servant, spec. a king's attendant, minister
Strong's Number G3816 Bible Verses
G5040
τεκνίον
teknion
tek-nee'-on
Noun Neuter
diminutive of G5043; an infant, i.e. (plural figuratively) darlings (Christian converts):--little children.
- a little child
- in the NT used as a term of kindly address by teachers to their disciples
Strong's Number G5040 Bible Verses
G5043
τέκνον
teknon
tek'-non
Noun Neuter
from the base of G5098; a child (as produced):--child, daughter, son.
- offspring, children
- child
- a male child, a son
- metaph.
- the name transferred to that intimate and reciprocal relationship formed between men by the bonds of love, friendship, trust, just as between parents and children
- in affectionate address, such as patrons, helpers, teachers and the like employ: my child
- in the NT, pupils or disciples are called children of their teachers, because the latter by their instruction nourish the minds of their pupils and mould their characters
- children of God: in the OT of "the people of Israel" as especially dear to God, in the NT, in Paul's writings, all who are led by the Spirit of God and thus closely related to God
- children of the devil: those who in thought and action are prompted by the devil, and so reflect his character
- metaph.
- of anything who depends upon it, is possessed by a desire or affection for it, is addicted to it
- one who is liable to any fate 1c
- thus children of a city: it citizens and inhabitants
- the votaries of wisdom, those souls who have, as it were, been nurtured and moulded by wisdom
- cursed children, exposed to a curse and doomed to God's wrath or penalty
Strong's Number G5043 Bible Verses
G5206
υἱοθεσία
huiothesia
hwee-oth-es-ee'-ah
Noun Feminine
from a presumed compound of G5207 and a derivative of G5087; the placing as a son, i.e. adoption (figuratively, Christian sonship in respect to God):--adoption (of children, of sons).
- adoption, adoption as sons
- that relationship which God was pleased to establish between himself and the Israelites in preference to all other nations
- the nature and condition of the true disciples in Christ, who by receiving the Spirit of God into their souls become sons of God
- the blessed state looked for in the future life after the visible return of Christ from heaven
Strong's Number G5206 Bible Verses
G5207
υἱός
huios
hwee-os'
Noun Masculine
apparently a primary word; a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship:--child, foal, son.
- a son
- rarely used for the young of animals
- generally used of the offspring of men
- in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)
- in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,
- the children of Israel
- sons of Abraham
- used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower
- a pupil
- son of man
- term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality
- son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ.
- used by Christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his Messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendour.
- son of God
- used to describe Adam (Lk. 3:38)
- used to describe those who are born again (Lk. 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ
- of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others
- in the OT used of the Jews
- in the NT of Christians
- those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Heb. 12:5-8)
- of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others
- those who revere God as their father, the pious worshippers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Rom. 8:14, Gal. 3:26), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father's will in all his acts
- used to describe those who are born again (Lk. 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ
Strong's Number G5207 Bible Verses