Pais παῖς

From God's Wiki, the Bible topic encyclopedia
Pais
παῖς
Transliterationpais
Strong's numberG3816
LanguageGreek
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosschild
Occurrences24 in 24 verses
Most frequent inLuke (9)

Pais (Greek παῖς, Strong's G3816) is a Greek masculine noun meaning “child”. It occurs 24 times in 24 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

παῖς, genitive, παιδός, ὁ, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for עֶבֶד, also for נַעַר, נַעֲרָה, etc. ;]
1. a child, boy, youth, maiden: ὁ π., Mat.17:18, Luk.2:43 9:42, Act.20:12; ἡ π. Luk.8:51, 54 (on the artic. fern, of address, see M, Pr., 70 f., 235; B1., § 33, 4); pl., Mat.2:16 21:15; of parentage, with genitive, Jhn.4:51
2. Like Heb. עֶבֶד, Lat. Auer, Fr. garcon, Eng. boy (Æsch., Aristoph., Xen., al.), servant, slave, attendant: Mat.8:6, 8 8:13 Luk.7:7 12:45 15:26; in late writers (Diod., LXX: Gen.41:37, al.), of a king's attendant or minister : Mat.14:2; so (= Heb. יְהוָֹה עֶבֶד) π. τ. θεοῦ (Psa.69:18, Isa.41:8, Wis.2:13, al.), of Israel, Luk.1:54; of David, Luk.1:69, Act.4:25; of Jesus (but see Dalman, Words, 277 f.), Mat.12:18 (LXX), Act.3:13, 26 4:27, 30.†
SYN.:
1. τέκνον, child, with emphasis on parentage and the consequent community of nature; υἱός, son, with emphasis on the privileged position of heirship; π. refers both to age and parentage, but with emphasis on the former. Cf. also (παιδάριον), (παιδίον), (παιδίσκη), and see Westc. on 1Jn.3:1.
2. see: θεράπων, and cf. Thackeray, Gr., 7 f
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVservant (8), child (5), son (3), children (2), servants (2), unto (1), maiden (1), maid (1), menservants (1), man (1)
BSBservant (12), boy (4), servants (2), boys (1), children (1), child's (1), child (1), menservants (1)

Verses

Every verse with Pais, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Luke

John

Acts

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
Dark mode