Boy
παιδάριονStrong’s G3808paidarion
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Paidarion is the Greek word usually translated “little boy”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?”
Meaning
Usually translated “little boy”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- a little boy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
παιδάριον paidarion · boy
παιδάριον, -ου, τό dimin. of παῖς, [in LXX chiefly for נַעַר ;] a little boy, a lad (in late and colloq. Gk. the word seems to be used with greater latitude and even to lose its dimin. force entirely; cf. Tob.6:2-3, and see MM, xviii): Jhn.6:9.† SYN.: see: παῖς (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “boy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOY, noun
[Latin puer for puger, for we see by puella, that r is not radical. So the Gr. probably is contracted, for the derivative verb, forms.]
All definitions and other forms of “boy”
BOY, verb transitive
To treat as a boy
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.