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Koine Greek wordlink #106010

SR GNT Rom 2:20 νηπίων (naʸpiōn) ‘an instructor of the foolish a teacher of infants having the appearance’ Strongs=35160 Lemma=nēpios
Word role=substantive adjective case=genitive gender=masculine number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form νηπίων (S-GMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘νηπίων’ (S-GMP) is always and only glossed as ‘of infants’.

Mat 21:16 ‘you_all read out_of mouth of infants and nursing you prepared’ SR GNT Mat 21:16 word 20

OET-LV: 16 and said to _him: Are _you _hearing what these are _saying? And the Yaʸsous is _saying to _them: Yes, you _all_ never _read, that You _prepared praise out _of mouth of _infants and nursing,? (MAT_21:16)

OET-RV: 16 and accused him, “Can’t you hear what they’re saying?”
¶ “Yes, I can,” Yeshua responded. “Didn’t you ever read where it says ‘You caused praises to come from the lips of infants and babies’?” (MAT 21:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘nēpios’ have 5 different glosses: ‘an infant’, ‘of infants’, ‘to infants’, ‘infant’, ‘infants’.

Greek words (6) other than νηπίων (S-GMP) with a gloss related to ‘infants’

MAT 11:25 νηπίοις (naʸpiois) S-DMP ‘and you revealed them to infants’ SR GNT Mat 11:25 word 30

OET-LV: 25 At that the time the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) answering said: I _am _confessing to _you, father, master of _the heaven and the earth, that you _hid these things from wise and intelligent, and you _revealed them to _infants. (MAT_11:25)

OET-RV: 25 At that time Yeshua said, “I am acknowledging you, father, master of the heaven and earth, that you hid these things from ‘wise’ and ‘intelligent’ people and revealed them to the ‘naive’. (MAT 11:25)

LUKE 10:21 νηπίοις (naʸpiois) S-DMP ‘and you revealed them to infants yes father because’ SR GNT Luke 10:21 word 39

OET-LV: 21 In the_same the hour, he _exulted in _the the holy spirit and said: I _am _confessing to _you, father, master of_ the _heaven and the earth, that you _hidden _away these things from the_wise and intelligent, and you _revealed them to _infants. Yes. the father, because thus it _became good _pleasure before you. (LUK_10:21)

OET-RV: 21 At the same time, the holy spirit got Yeshua excited and he said, “I’m aware father, master of heaven and earth, that you’ve hidden these things away from those who are intelligent and well-educated, and instead revealed them to infants. Yes, father, that was what you decided. (LUK 10:21)

1 COR 3:1 νηπίοις (naʸpiois) S-DMP ‘as to fleshy men as to infants in chosen_one/messiah’ SR GNT 1 Cor 3:1 word 18

OET-LV: 3 And _I, brothers, not was _able to _speak to _you _all as to _spiritual men, but as to _fleshy men, as to _infants in chosen _one /messiah. (CO1_3:1)

OET-RV: 3 So brothers and sisters, because you were baby Christians when I visited, I wasn’t able to speak to you all like spiritual people, but only like worldly people. (CO1 3:1)

GAL 4:3 νήπιοι (naʸpioi) S-NMP ‘we when we were infants under the principles’ SR GNT Gal 4:3 word 6

OET-LV: 3 Thus we also, when we _were infants, we _were having _been _enslaved under the principles of _the world. (GAL_4:3)

OET-RV: 3 That’s how it is with us—when we were infants we were enslaved by this world’s principles, (GAL 4:3)

EPH 4:14 νήπιοι (naʸpioi) S-NMP ‘in_order_that no_longer we may_be infants being_tossed_by_waves and being carried_about’ SR GNT Eph 4:14 word 5

OET-LV: 14 in _order _that no _longer we _may _be infants, being _tossed _by _waves and being _carried _about by _every wind of_ the _teaching in the trickery of_ the _people, in craftiness with the scheming of_ the _deception, (EPH_4:14)

OET-RV: 14 Then we’ll no longer be like children in our faith, tossed around by waves and being blown by every wind of teaching used to trick us or by crafty people who scheme how to deceive us. (EPH 4:14)

1 TH 2:7 νήπιοι (naʸpioi) S-NMP ‘ambassadors but we were become infants in the midst of you_all’ SR GNT 1 Th 2:7 word 10

OET-LV: 7 being _able in burden to _be, as of_chosen _one /messiah ambassadors. But we _were _become infants in the_midst of _you _all, as if a_nursing _mother may _be _cherishing the of _herself children. (TH1_2:7)

OET-RV: 7 even though we could request support as ambassadors of Messiah. But we became unsophisticated among you, just like children, or like a breast-feeding mother who cherishes her own children. (TH1 2:7)

Key: S=substantive adjective DMP=dative,masculine,plural GMP=genitive,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural