νέος
néos · G3501 · Greek · 24 occurrences
Thing
- New wineWine48 verses
Meanings
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new, recent
Pertaining to having been in existence for only a short time
ExamplesMatthew 9:17 “Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
Mark 2:22 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Luke 5:37 “And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.
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new
Pertaining to that which is new or recent and hence superior to that which is old
Examples1 Corinthians 5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it—
Hebrews 12:24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
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young, younger
Pertaining to a living being who is relatively young, often the younger of two objects
ExamplesLuke 15:12 “The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that is coming to me.’ And so he divided his wealth between them.
Luke 15:13 “And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate in wild living.
Luke 22:26 “But it is not this way for you; rather, the one who is the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the servant.
How it’s used In 6 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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνακαινόωto make new 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- γαμέωto marry 1
- ἔπωto say 1
- ἀνίστημιto rise, to stand up, to raise up 1
- συστέλλωto draw near 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἐνδύωto put on, to clothe 1
- θέλωto want, to wish, to desire 1
- παρακαλέωto plead for, to appeal to, to encourage 1
- σωφρονέωto be in one’s right mind 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φίλανδροςhaving love for one’s husband 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέγαςgreat, large 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- καινός kainós · G2537 · new, recent
- Both terms converge on the concept of 'newness.' καινός emphasizes qualitative or unprecedented newness, while νέος emphasizes temporal or age-related newness — a genuine lexical contrast recognized in Greek lexicography, marking a documented qualitative-temporal axis of differentiation between two legitimate near synonyms for 'new.'
In the other Testament 3 words
- נַעַר naʻar · H5288 · boy, lad, youth
- Greek νέος emphasizes the quality of newness/youth with broader application (persons, things, figurative regeneration), while Hebrew נַעַר specifically denotes young persons in concrete social roles (boy, lad, servant) without the abstract 'newness' extension.
- קָטָן qâṭân · H6996 · small, weak, young
- קָטָן (qâṭân, H6996) קָטָן focuses on size/stature/age-status with primary emphasis on relative smallness or minority ("small, little, young"), while νέος (néos, G3501) νέος emphasizes temporal newness or youth as a state of being recent/fresh, though both can denote persons of young age where their semantic ranges overlap in youth-related contexts.
- צָעִיר tsâʻîyr · H6810 · small, insignificant, servant
- צָעִיר (tsâʻîyr, H6810) denotes youth/smallness primarily in comparative contexts (younger, youngest, smallest), while νέος (néos, G3501) emphasizes the quality of newness itself in persons or things, including metaphorical renewal; the Hebrew term centers on relative age/size ranking, the Greek on the state of being new/fresh.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- New58.71
- In the teaching on wineskins, Mark 2:22 states “‘And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins,’” where “new” (of the wine) renders this term.
- New, recent67.115
- The parallel saying in Luke 5:38 reads “‘But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins,’” where “new” again renders this term, here in its temporal sense of something recently made rather than aged.
- Young, younger67.116
- Describing the renewal of the believer, Colossians 3:10 states “and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it,” where “new” (of the self) renders this same term, here of something freshly brought into being.
- Neapolis93.541
- Describing Paul's voyage from Troas, Acts 16:11 states “So after setting sail from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis,” where “Neapolis” renders this same term used as the proper name of the Macedonian port city.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νέα, νεσον (allied with Latinnovus, German neu, English new; Curtius, § 433), as in Greek…
1. recently born, young, youthful: Tit 2:4 (for נַעַר, Gen 37:2; Ex 33:11); οἶνος νέος, recently made, Mt 9:17; Mk 2:22; Lk 5:31-39 (but 39 WH in brackets) (Sir. 9:10).
2. new: 1 Cor 5:7; Heb 12:24; equivalent to born again, ἄνθρωπος (which see 1 f.), Col 3:10. (Synonym: see καινός, at the end.)
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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