🇬🇷 Greek · Strong's G3816
G3816

παῖς

paîs [paheece] Noun
Core meaningchild

Lexical Definition

Strong's Greek G3816

a boy (as often beaten with impunity), or (by analogy), a girl, and (genitive case) a child; specially, a slave or servant (especially a minister to a king; and by eminence to God)

KJV usage: :--child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.
Etymology: perhaps from ;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon

a child in relation to parents, of either sex, Jn. 4:51; a child in respect of age, either male or female, and of all ages from infancy up to manhood, a boy, youth, girl, maiden, Mt. 2:16; 17:18; Lk. 2:43; 8:54; a servant, slave, Mt. 8:6, 8, 13, cf. v. 9; Lk. 7:7, cf. v. 3, 10; an attendant, minister, Mt. 14:2; Lk. 1:69; Acts 4:25; also, Lk. 1:54; or, perhaps, a child in respect of fatherly regard

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