νήπιοςnḗpios
GreekG351614 occurrences (KJV)
not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian
KJV renders it: babe, child (+ -ish)
Where it appears(showing the first 10 of 14)
- Matt 11:25At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
- Matt 21:16and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’”
- Luke 10:21In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
- Rom 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
- 1 Cor 3:1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
- 1 Cor 13:11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
- Gal 4:1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;
- Gal 4:3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
- Eph 4:14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
- Heb 5:13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.