Word

κοράσιον

korásion · G2877 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

girl

(A diminutive derivative of κόρη ‘girl,’ not occurring in the NT, but seemingly having lost the diminutive feature of meaning) A girl about the age of puberty

Examples
Matthew 9:24 He said, “Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.” And they began laughing at Him.
Matthew 9:25 But when the crowd had been sent out, He entered and took her by the hand, and the girl got up.
Matthew 14:11 And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
ἐγείρωto raise, to get up 1
ἀνίστημιto rise, to stand up, to raise up 1
ἀποθνήσκωto die 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

δίδωμιto give, to grant 2
ἔπωto say 1

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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In the other Testament 1 word

נַעֲרָה naʻărâh · H5291 · girl, young woman, servant: Greek diminutive κοράσιον ('little girl') corresponds to Hebrew נַעֲרָה in contexts where age/status overlap, though the Hebrew term has broader range (includes marriageable young women, not just children).

Semantic domains 1 entry

Girl9.40: κοράσιον names a young girl. Mark 5:41 recounts Jesus taking Jairus’s daughter “by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha kum!’ (which translated means, ‘Little girl, I say to you, get up!’),” the κοράσιον naming this young girl He raised from death.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κοράσιονkorásion · G2877ἐπικουρία epikouría · G1947 · help · 1×

Also from the root κοράσιον

Διόσκουροι Dióskouroi · G1359 · sons of Jupiter, i.e. the twins Dioscuri · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κορασίου, τό (diminutive of κόρη), properly, a colloquial word used disparagingly (like…

κορασίου, τό (diminutive of κόρη), properly, a colloquial word used disparagingly (like the German Mädel), a little girl (in the epigram attributed to Plato in (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 33; Lucian, as. 6); used by later writers without disparagement (Winers Grammar, 24 (23)), a girl, damsel, maiden: Mt 9:24; Mt 14:11; Mk 5:41; Mk 6:22, Mk 6:28; (occasionally, as in Epictetus diss. 2, 1, 28; 3, 2, 8; 4, 10, 33; the Sept. for נַעֲרָה; twice also for יַלְדָּה Joel 3:3 (Joel 4:3); Zech 8:5; (Tobit 6:12; Judith 16:12; Est 2:2)). The form and use of the word are fully discussed in Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 73f, cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 42f.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Females8 occurrences

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