nēpios · infant, child

What it means

nēpios (νήπιος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “infant, child”.

Small child, infant; someone simple or immature like a child.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A child of very young age, still dependent on others.
2. Someone still immature in faith.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• child ×7
• children ×5
• infants ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×6
• Galatians×2
• Ephesians×1
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 11:25

  At that time Jesus responded and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you hid these things from the wise and the intelligent and revealed them to little children.

• Matthew 21:16

  and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus says to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

• Luke 10:21

  In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing before you.

• Romans 2:20

  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and of truth—

• 1 Corinthians 3:1

  And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to fleshly people, as to infants in the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 13:11

  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I did away with the things of the child.

• Galatians 4:1

  Now I say: as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of everything,

• Galatians 4:3

  So we also, when we were children, were enslaved under the elements of the world.

• Ephesians 4:14

  so that we may no longer be children, tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of men, by craftiness in the scheming of error;

• Hebrews 5:13

  For everyone who feeds on milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a child.

And 4 more times.