Word

υἱός

huiós · G5207 · Greek · 377 occurrences

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Meanings

son

An immediate male offspring

Examples
Matthew 1:21 “She will give birth to a Son; and you shall name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
Matthew 1:23 “BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE AND GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND THEY SHALL NAME HIM IMMANUEL,” which translated means, “GOD WITH US.”
Matthew 1:25 but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he named Him Jesus.
my child, my dear friend, my dear man, my dear one, my dear lad

(Extension of meaning of υἱός ‘son,’) A person of any age for whom there is a special relationship of endearment and association

Examples
John 19:26 So when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
Hebrews 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.
Hebrews 12:5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE PUNISHED BY HIM;
male descendant

(An extended meaning of υἱός ‘son,’) A non-immediate male descendant (possibly involving a gap of several generations)

Examples
Matthew 1:1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
Matthew 1:20 But when he had thought this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two men who were blind followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
foal, offspring

The male offspring of an animal (occurring in the NT only with ὑποζύγιον ‘beast of burden,’)

Examples
Matthew 21:5 “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, ‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY, EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.’”
son of …, person of …, one who is …

(Followed by the genitive of class or kind) A person of a class or kind, specified by the following genitive construction

Examples
Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Matthew 5:45 so that you may prove yourselves to be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Matthew 12:27 “And if by Beelzebul I cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they will be your judges.
disciple, follower

(A figurative extension of meaning of υἱός ‘son,’) One who is a disciple or follower of someone, with the implication of being like the one whom he follows (a reflection of the Semitic use of υἱός in the expression son of)

Examples
Matthew 12:27 “And if by Beelzebul I cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they will be your judges.
Luke 11:19 “Yet if by Beelzebul I cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they will be your judges.
Acts 3:25 “It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.’
citizen

A member of a sociopolitical group with some presumed ethnic relationship

Examples
Matthew 17:25 He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”
Matthew 17:26 When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt.
son of, offspring of, child of, kind of, one who has the characteristics of, person of

A kind or class of persons, with the implication of possessing certain derived characteristics

Examples
Luke 16:8 “And his master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
John 17:12 “While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
Galatians 4:6 Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba! Father!”
the people of Israel, the nation of Israel

(An idiom, literally: sons of Israel) The people of Israel as an ethnic entity

Examples
Matthew 27:9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “AND THEY TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, THE PRICE OF THE ONE WHOSE PRICE HAD BEEN SET by the sons of Israel;
Luke 1:16 “And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.
Acts 5:21 Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple area about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, that is, all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison for them to be brought.
people of God’s kingdom, God’s people

(An idiom, literally: sons of the kingdom) People who should properly be or were traditionally regarded as a part of the kingdom of God

Examples
Matthew 8:12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:38 and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the weeds are the sons of the evil one;
non-religious people, people of this world, people of this age

(An idiom, literally: sons of this age) Persons who hold to the value system of the world

Examples
Luke 16:8 “And his master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
Luke 20:34 Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and the women are given in marriage,
wedding guests or friends of the bridegroom

(An idiom, literally: sons of the wedding hall) Guests at a wedding, or more specifically, friends of the bridegroom participating in wedding festivities

Examples
Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Mark 2:19 And Jesus said to them, “While the groom is with them, the attendants of the groom cannot fast, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
Luke 5:34 And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the attendants of the groom fast while the groom is with them, can you?
sons of the light, children of the light, people of God

(Idioms, literally: sons of the light, and: sons of the day) Persons to whom the truth of God has been revealed and who are presumably living according to such truth. See also senses 5 and 16

Examples
Luke 16:8 “And his master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
John 12:36 “While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.” These things Jesus proclaimed, and He went away and hid Himself from them.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
people, mankind

(A Semitic idiom, literally: sons of men) Human beings (equivalent in denotative meaning to ἄνθρωπος)

Examples
Mark 3:28 “Truly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons and daughters of men, and whatever blasphemies they commit;
Ephesians 3:5 which in other generations was not made known to mankind, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
Revelation 1:13 and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and wrapped around the chest with a golden sash.
Son of Man

A title with Messianic implications used by Jesus concerning himself

Examples
Matthew 8:20 And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
Matthew 9:6 “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, pick up your stretcher and go home.”
Matthew 10:23 “But whenever they persecute you in one city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.
Son of God

(A title applied to Jesus, literally: son of God; parallel in semantic structure to phrases consisting of υἱός followed by the genitive of class or kind; compare sense 5) One who has the essential characteristics and nature of God

Examples
Matthew 2:15 He stayed there until the death of Herod; this happened so that what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: “OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON.”
Matthew 3:17 and behold, a voice from the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 4:3 And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
son of David

A title applied to Jesus, with Messianic implications, emphasizing Jesus’ link to David

Examples
Matthew 1:1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
Matthew 9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two men who were blind followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
Matthew 12:23 And all the crowds were amazed and were saying, “This man cannot be the Son of David, can he?”

How it’s used In 11 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

299 occurrences in 54 groups

ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 87
θεόςGod 49
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 33
ἐγώI, we 22
ΔαβίδDavid 15
ἸσραήλIsrael 14
Other words · 40 groups that occur once or twice (45) 45

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

23 occurrences in 16 groups

δύοtwo 5
μονογενήςunique 4
οὗτοςthis 4
Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13

Named alongside itApposition

63 occurrences in 42 groups

ἸησοῦςJesus 18
ἀγαπητόςbeloved, dear 7
ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 5
ἸωάννηςJohn 3
κύριοςLord 3
Other words · 37 groups that occur once or twice (42) 42

What it doesIt is the subject

92 occurrences in 46 groups

ἔρχομαιto come 15
παραδίδωμιto hand over, to betray 9
ἔχωto have 5
δοξάζωto glorify, to praise 4
δύναμαιcan 4
κάθημαιto sit 4
Other words · 38 groups that occur once or twice (48) 48

What is done to itIt is the object

60 occurrences in 37 groups

ἔχωto have 6
τίκτωto give birth, to bear 6
ἀποστέλλωto send 5
γεννάωto beget, to be the father of, to give birth 3
λέγωto say 3
Other words · 32 groups that occur once or twice (37) 37

It is given or told toIndirect object

7 occurrences in 6 groups

δίδωμιto give, to grant 2
γνωρίζωto make known, to know 1
ἔπωto say 1
ποιέωto do, to make 1
ἀποστέλλωto send 1
ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 1

Second object ofSecond object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ποιέωto do, to make 2

What it is said to bePredicate

17 occurrences in 11 groups

τίςwho? what?, why? for what reason? 4
κύριοςLord 3
Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

48 occurrences in 14 groups

οὗτοςthis 16
σύyou 13
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (15) 15

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

36 occurrences in 14 groups

ἐπίon 13
εἰςto 12
ἐνin 9
περίconcerning, about, for 6
μετάwith, after 5
ἐνώπιονin front of 4
Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

30 occurrences in 22 groups

ὄνομαname 4
παρουσίαcoming, presence 3
Other words · 20 groups that occur once or twice (23) 23

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

τέκνον téknon · G5043 · child, offspring, posterity: τέκνον and the target both denote a child, converging in both literal kinship and in figurative extensions such as spiritual sonship and terms of endearment. τέκνον emphasizes the child as one who is begotten or produced, while the target carries additional connotations of legal or civic standing (such as heirship or citizenship) beyond mere origin. The two are distinct terms with overlapping but not identical ranges of meaning.

In the other Testament 3 words

בֵּן bên · H1121 · son, child, descendant: בֵּן (bên, H1121) בֵּן is the standard Hebrew equivalent denoting literal and figurative sonship, with near-identical semantic range across immediate kinship, remote descendants, and metaphorical relationships (tribal membership, age designation, etc.).
בֵּן bên · H1123 · child, son, young: Hebrew בֵּן (bên, H1123) and Greek υἱός (huiós, G5207) are direct cross-linguistic equivalents denoting "son" or "child" in immediate or extended kinship relationships, with both used literally and figuratively across their respective corpora.
בַּר bar · H1247 · old, son: υἱός (huiós, G5207) serves as the standard Greek rendering of Aramaic בַּר (bar, H1247) (בַּר, 'son') in LXX/NT alignment data, both denoting direct male offspring or figurative kinship relationships with equivalent semantic scope.

Semantic domains 16 entries

Male descendant10.30: Matthew 1:1 — “The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”
Son10.42: Matthew 1:21 — “‘She will give birth to a Son; and you shall name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.’”
People of God’s kingdom, God’s people11.13: Matthew 5:9 — “‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.’”
Sons of the light, children of the light, people of God11.14: John 12:36 — “‘While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.’ These things Jesus proclaimed, and He went away and hid Himself from them.”
Non-religious people, people of this world, people of this age11.16: Ephesians 2:2 — “in which you previously walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.”
The people of Israel, the nation of Israel11.58: Revelation 7:4 — “And I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.”
Citizen11.69: Matthew 8:12 — “but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Wedding guests or friends of the bridegroom11.7: Matthew 9:15 — “And Jesus said to them, ‘The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.’”
Son of God12.15: Matthew 16:16 — “Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’”
Disciple, follower36.39: Luke 20:36 — “for they cannot even die anymore, for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.”
Foal, offspring4.9: Matthew 21:5 — “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, ‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY, EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.’”
Son of, offspring of, child of, kind of, one who has the characteristics of, person of58.26: Matthew 23:15 — “‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.’”
People, mankind9.2: Matthew 5:45 — “‘so that you may prove yourselves to be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.’”
Son of Man9.3: Matthew 8:20 — “And Jesus said to him, ‘The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.’”
Son of …, person of …, one who is …9.4: Acts 4:36 — “Now Joseph, a Levite of Cyprian birth, who was also called Barnabas by the apostles (which translated means Son of Encouragement).”
My child, my dear friend, my dear man, my dear one, my dear lad9.46: Hebrews 12:5 — “and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, ‘MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE PUNISHED BY HIM.’”

Word family 2 words

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

υἱόςhuiós · G5207υἱοθεσία huiothesía · G5206 · to adopt, adoption · 5×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon υἱοῦ, ὁ, from Homer down, the Sept. for בֵּן and Chaldean בַּר, a son (male offspring);…

υἱοῦ, ὁ, from Homer down, the Sept. for בֵּן and Chaldean בַּר, a son (male offspring);
1. properly,
a. rarely of the young of animals: Mt 21:5 (Ps 28:1; Sir. 38:25); generally of the offspring of men, and in the restricted sense, male issue (one begotten by a father and born of a mother): Mt 10:37; Lk 1:13; ( L T Tr WH); Acts 7:29; Gal 4:22, etc.; ὁ υἱός τίνος, Mt 7:9; Mk 9:17; Lk 3:2; Jn 1:42(), and very often, as in Greek writings, υἱός is often to be supplied by the reader (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 3, p. 593 (551)): as τόν τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου, Mt 4:21; Mk 1:19. plural υἱοί τίνος, Mt 20:20; Lk 5:10; Jn 4:12; Acts 2:17; Heb 11:21, etc. with the addition of an adjective, as πρωτότοκος, Mt 1:25 (R G); Lk 2:7; μονογενής, Lk 7:12. οἱ υἱοί, genuine sons, are distinguished from οἱ νόθοι in Heb 12:8. equivalent to τέκνον with ἄρσην added, a man child (Buttmann, 80 (70)), Rev 12:5; of one (actually or to be) regarded as a son, although properly not one, Jn 19:26; Acts 7:21; Heb 11:24; in kindly address, Heb 12:5 from Prov 3:11 (see τέκνον, a.β.).
b. in a wider sense (like θυγάτηρ, τέκνον), a descendant, one of the posterity of anyone: τίνος, Mt 1:20; ὁ υἱός Δαυίδ, of the Messiah, Mt 22:42, Mt 22:45; Mk 12:35, Mk 12:37; Lk 20:41, Lk 20:44; of Jesus the Messiah, Mt 9:27; Mt 12:23; Mt 15:22; Mt 20:30; Mt 21:9, Mt 21:15; Mk 10:47; Lk 18:38f plural υἱοί τίνος, Mt 23:31; Heb 7:5; υἱοί Ἰσραήλ, Israelites (the children of Israel), Mt 27:9; Acts 9:15; Acts 10:36; 2 Cor 3:7, 2 Cor 3:13; Heb 11:21; Rev 2:14; Rev 7:4; Rev 21:12 (see Ἰσραήλ); υἱοί Ἀβραάμ, sons of Abraham, is tropically applied to those who by their faith in Christ are akin to Abraham, Gal 3:7.
2. tropically and according to the Hebrew mode of speech (Winer's Grammar, 33 (32)), υἱός with the genitive of a person is used of one who depends on another or is his follower: οἱ υἱοί of teachers, equivalent to pupils (see τέκνον, b. β. (cf. Irenaeus haer. 4, 41, 2 qui enim ab aliquo edoctus est, verbo filius docentis dicitur, et ille eius pater)), Mt 12:27; Lk 11:19; τοῦ πονηροῦ, who in thought and action are prompted by the evil one and obey him, Mt 13:38; υἱός διαβόλου, Acts 13:10; with the genitive of a thing, one who is connected with or belongs to a thing by any kind of close relationship (Winers Grammar, § 34, 3 N. 2; Buttmann, § 132, 10): υἱοί τοῦ νυμφῶνος (see νυμφών), Mt 9:15; Mk 2:19; Lk 5:34 (τῆς ἄκρας, the garrison of the citadel, 1 Macc. 4:2; in Ossian 'a son of the hill' i. e. 'a hunter', 'a son of the sea' i. e. 'a sailor'; cf. Jen. Lit. Zeit. for 1836 No. 58, p. 462f); τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, those whose character belongs to this age (is 'worldly'), Lk 16:8; Lk 20:34; τῆς ἀπειθείας, i. e. ἀπειθεῖς, Eph 2:2; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6 (here T Tr WH omit; L brackets the clause) (ἀνομίας, Psalm 88:23; τῆς ὑπερηφανίας, 1 Macc. 2:47); βροντῆς, who resemble thunder, thundering (see Βοανεργές), Mk 3:17; τοῦ φωτός, instructed in evangelical truth and devotedly obedient to it, Lk 16:8; Jn 12:36; with καί τῆς ἡμέρας added, 1 Thess 5:5; τῆς ἀναστάσεως, sharers in the resurrection, Lk 20:36; παρακλήσεως, Acts 4:36; one to whom anything belongs: as υἱοί τῶν προφητῶν καί τῆς διαθήκης, those to whom the prophetic and covenant promises belong, Acts 3:25; for whom a thing is destined, as υἱοί τῆς βασιλείας, Mt 8:12; Mt 13:38; τῆς ἀπωλείας, Jn 17:12; 2 Thess 2:3; one who is worthy of a thing, as γηννης, Mt 23:15; εἰρήνης, Lk 10:6 (θανάτου, 1 Sam 20:31; 2 Sam 12:5; הַכּות בִּן, the Sept. ἄξιος πληγῶν, Deut 25:2). (Synonym: see τέκνον.)
G5207a: υἱός τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
, the Sept. for אָדָם בֶּן, Chaldean אֲנָשׁ בַּר, son of man; it is:
1. properly, a periphrasis for 'man' especially common in the poetic books of the O. T., and usually carrying with it a suggestion of weakness and mortality: Num 23:19; Job 16:21; Job 25:6; Ps 8:5; Isa 51:12; Sir. 17:30 (25), etc.; often in Ezekiel, where God addresses the prophet by this name, as Ezek 2:1, Ezek 2:3; Ezek 3:1 (Ezek 2:10), etc.; plural הָאָדָם בְּנֵי (because אָדָם lacks the plural), υἱοί τῶν ἀνθρώπων, Gen 11:5; 1 Sam 26:19; Ps 10:4; Prov 8:31, etc. So in the N. T.: Mk 3:28; Eph 3:5, (Wis. 9:6); singular ὅμοιος υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου (like unto a son of man), of Christ in the apocalyptic vision, Rev 1:13 (here υἱόν T WH text); (υἱόν T WH) (after Dan 7:13).
2. In Dan 7:13f, cf. 18, 22, 27, the appellation son of man (אֱנָשׁ בַּר) symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom, universal and Messianic; and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median, the Persian, the Macedonian) typified under the form of beasts (verse 2ff). But in the Book of Enoch (written toward the close of the 2nd century before Christ (but cf. B. D. (especially American edition); Lipsius in Dict. of Chris. Biog. under the word; Dillmann in Herzog (2nd edition, vol. 12, p. 350f); Schodde, Book of Enoch, p. 20ff)) the name 'son of man' is employed to designate the person of the Messiah: 46, 2f; 48, 2; 62, 7, 9, 14; 63, 11; 69, 26f; 70, 1; 71, 17. (The chapters in which the name occurs are the work, if not of the first author of the book (as Ewald and Dillmann think (but see B. D. American edition, p. 740{b}; and Herzog as above, p. 351)), at least of a Jewish writer (cf. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 32 V. 2, p. 626), certainly not (as Hilgenfeld, Volkmar, Keim, and others imagine) of a Christian interpolator.) In the language of the Jews in Jn 12:34 the titles Χριστός and υἱός τοῦ ἀνθρώπου are used as synonyms.
3. The title ὁ υἱός τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, the Son of Man, is used by Jesus of himself (speaking in the third person) in Mt 8:20; Mt 9:6; Mt 10:23; Mt 11:19; Mt 12:8, Mt 12:32, Mt 12:40; Mt 13:37, Mt 13:41; Mt 16:13, Mt 16:27; Mt 17:9, Mt 17:12, Mt 17:22; Mt 18:11 Rec.; Mt 19:28; Mt 20:18, Mt 20:28, Mt 24:27, Mt 20:30, Mt 20:37, Mt 20:39, Mt 20:44, Mt 24:30 (twice); Rec., ; Mt 26:2, Mt 26:24, Mt 26:45, Mt 26:64; Mk 2:10, Mk 2:28; Mk 8:31, Mk 8:38; Mk 9:9, Mk 9:12, Mk 9:31; Mk 10:33, Mk 10:45; Mk 13:26; Mk 14:21, Mk 14:41, Mk 14:62; Lk 5:24; Lk 6:5, Lk 6:22; Lk 7:34; Lk 9:22, Lk 9:26, Lk 9:44, Lk 9:56 Rec., ; Lk 11:30; Lk 12:8, Lk 12:20, Lk 12:40, Lk 17:22, Lk 12:24, Lk 12:26, Lk 12:30, Lk 18:8, Lk 12:31, Lk 19:10, Lk 21:27, Lk 12:36, Lk 22:22, Lk 12:48, Lk 12:69, Lk 24:7; Jn 1:51 (Jn 1:52); Jn 3:13f; 6:27,53,62; 8:28; 12:23,34; 13:31> (once without the article, Jn 5:27), doubtless in order that (by recalling Dan 7:13f — not, as some suppose, Ps 8:5) he might thus intimate his Messiahship (as is plain from such passages as ψεσθε τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου... ἐρχόμενον ἐπί τῶν νεφελῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Mt 26:64; Mk 14:62, cf. Dan 7:13; τόν υἱόν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον ἐν τῇ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ, Mt 16:28; ὅταν καθίσῃ ὁ υἱός τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπί θρόνου δόξης αὐτοῦ, Mt 19:28); and also (as appears to be the case at least from Mk 2:28, where ὁ υἱός τοῦ ἀνθρώπου stands in emphatic antithesis to the repeated ὁ ἄνθρωπος preceding), that he might designate himself as the head of the human race, the man κατ' ἐξοχήν, 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 splendor. There are no traces of the application of the name to Jesus in the apostolic age except in the speech of Stephen, Acts 7:56, and that of James, the brother of Jesus, in a fragment from Hegesippus given in Eus. h. e. 2, 23 (25), 13, each being a reminiscence of the words of Jesus in Mt 26:64 (to which may be added, from the apostolic fathers, Ignatius ad Ephes. 20, 2 [ET] ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ τῷ κατά σάρκα ἐκ γενοῦ Δαυίδ, τῷ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου καί υἱῷ Θεοῦ). This disuse was owing no doubt to the fact that the term did not seem to be quite congruous with the divine nature and celestial majesty of Christ; hence, in the Epistle of Barnabas 12, 10 [ET] we read, Ἰησοῦς οὐχ υἱός ἀνθρώπου (i. e. like Joshua)), ἀλλ' υἱός τοῦ Θεοῦ (cf. Harnack's note on the passage). On this title, see especially Holtzmann in Hilgenfeld's Zeitschr. für wissenschaftl. Theol., 1865, p. 212ff; Keim, ii, p. 63ff. ((English translation, vol. iii., p. 79ff); Immer, Theol. d. N. T., p. 105ff; Westcott's Commentary on John, p. 33f; and other references in Meyer on Mt 8:20; B. D. American edition, under the word ).

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Topical studies with this word 10 entries

Animals1 occurrence Human Beings108 occurrences Persons For Whom There Is Affectionate Concern5 occurrences Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations113 occurrences General3 occurrences Socio-Religious8 occurrences Socio-Political16 occurrences Supernatural Beings119 occurrences Follow, Be a Disciple6 occurrences Class, Kind6 occurrences

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