G3813

παιδίον

paidion

Neuter noun · From dimin. of παῖς (G3816)

Neuter diminutive of G3816; a childling (of either sex), i.e. (properly), an infant, or (by extension) a half-grown boy or girl; figuratively, an immature Christian:—(little, young) child, damsel.

Outline

  1. a young child, a little boy, a little girl
    1. infants
    2. children, little ones
    3. an infant
      1. of a (male) child just recently born
    4. of a more advanced child; of a mature child;
    5. metaph. children (like children) in intellect

Usages

Matthew 2:13

Breakdown

Joseph was told to go into Egypt because there was a heavy concentration of Israelites in Egypt (In Josephus's history, it is claimed that, after the first Ptolemy took Judea, he led some 120,000 Jewish captives to Egypt from the areas of Judea).

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