βρέφος
bréphos · G1025 · Greek · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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baby, infant, fetus
A very small child, even one still unborn
ExamplesLuke 1:41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:44 “For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.
Luke 2:12 “And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
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The period of time when one is very young (childhood (probably implying a time when a child is still nursing), infancy)
Examples2 Timothy 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀρτιγέννητοςnewly born 1
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- σκιρτάωto jump for joy 2
- κεῖμαιto lie, to be laid, to be set 1
- σπαργανόωto clothe in strips of cloth 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
- προσφέρωto offer, to bring to 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Childhood (probably implying a time when a child is still nursing), infancy67.152
- Used of the earliest stage of life, as of the infants people were bringing to Jesus to touch in Luke 18:15.
- Baby, infant, fetus9.45
- Used of an unborn or newborn child, as of the baby leaping in Elizabeth's womb in Luke 1:41 and 1:44 and the baby found wrapped in cloths in the manger in Luke 2:12 and 2:16.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βρέφους, τό; a. an unborn child, embryo, fetus: Lk 1:41, Lk 1:44; (Homer, Iliad 23, 266;…
a. an unborn child, embryo, fetus: Lk 1:41, Lk 1:44; (Homer, Iliad 23, 266; Plutarch, rep. Stoic. 41 τό βρέφος ἐν τῇ γαστρί).
b. a new-born child, an infant, a babe (so from Pindar down): Lk 2:12, Lk 2:16; Lk 18:15; Acts 7:19; 1 Pet 2:2; ἀπό βρέφους from infancy, 2 Tim 3:15 (so ἐκ βρέφους, Anth. Pal. 9, 567).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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