ἀρτιγέννητος
artigénnētos · G738 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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newly born, recently born
Pertaining to having been born recently
Examples1 Peter 2:2 and like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 2 words
- νεόφυτος neóphytos · G3504 · recent convert
- Greek adjective used in 1 Tim 3:6 with exactly the same figurative sense as ἀρτιγέννητος—a recent convert to the faith—and sharing the 'newly/recently' temporal component and the metaphorical application to spiritual birth or initiation.
- νήπιος nḗpios · G3516 · small child
- Greek adjective/noun used literally for 'infant' (Matt 21:16, 1 Cor 13:11) and figuratively for spiritual immaturity (1 Cor 3:1, Eph 4:14, Heb 5:13); overlaps with ἀρτιγέννητος in the figurative domain of new believers, though νήπιος emphasizes lack of maturity and development rather than recentness of conversion.
Contrasting words 1 word
- τέλειος téleios · G5046 · perfect, genuine, true
- Greek adjective used in the New Testament to denote spiritual maturity and completeness (Matt 5:48, 1 Cor 14:20, Eph 4:13, Heb 5:14, Jas 1:4); directly opposite to ἀρτιγέννητος (just born/young convert) in the dimension of spiritual development—τέλειος represents the mature, fully developed believer at the end of growth, while ἀρτιγέννητος represents the newborn at the beginning.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Newly born, recently born23.48
- In 1 Peter 2:2, believers are told, “like newborn (artigénnēta) babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,” describing infants only just delivered.
Word family 26 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀρτιγεννητον (ἄρτι and γεννάω), just born, newborn: 1 Pet 2:2. (Lucian, Alex. 13; Long.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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