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Koine Greek wordlink #148937

SR GNT 1 Pet 2:2 βρέφη (brefaʸ) ‘like newborn babies the logical unadulterated’ Strongs=10250 Lemma=brefos
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=neuter number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form βρέφη (N-NNP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘βρέφη’ (N-NNP) is always and only glossed as ‘babies’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘brefos’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a baby’, ‘babies’, ‘baby’.

Greek words (2) other than βρέφη (N-NNP) with a gloss related to ‘babies’

LUKE 18:15 βρέφη (brefaʸ) N-ANP ‘to him also the babies in_order_that against them he may_be touching’ SR GNT Luke 18:15 word 6

OET-LV: 15 And they _were_ also _bringing the babies to _him, in _order _that he _may _be _touching against _them, but the apprentices/followers having _seen, were _giving _rebuke to _them. (LUK_18:15)

OET-RV: 15 The people also brought their babies to Yeshua so that he would touch them and bless them, but his apprentices scolded them when they saw it. (LUK 18:15)

ACTs 7:19 βρέφη (brefaʸ) N-ANP ‘fathers to_be making the babies abandoned of them in_order’ SR GNT Acts 7:19 word 15

OET-LV: 19 This man, having _taken _advantage of _the race of _us, mistreated the fathers which to _be _making the babies of _them abandoned, in _order that to_ not _be _being _kept _alive. (ACT_7:19)

OET-RV: 19 He took advantage of us Jews and mistreated our ancestors, even forcing them apart from their own babies so they wouldn’t live. (ACT 7:19)

Key: N=noun ANP=accusative,neuter,plural NNP=nominative,neuter,plural