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Strong's #3813: paidion (pronounced pahee-dee'-on)

neuter diminutive of 3816; 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.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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paidion

1) a young child, a little boy, a little girl

1a) infants

1b) children, little ones

1c) an infant

1c1) of a (male) child just recently born

1d) of a more advanced child; of a mature child

1e) metaphorically children (like children) in intellect

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from dimin. of G3816

Citing in TDNT: 5:636, 759




Usage:

This word is used 51 times:

1 John 2:18: " Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that"









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