Child
παῖςStrong’s G3816pais
Appears in 24 verses of the New Testament
In short
Pais is the Greek word usually translated “servant”, “boy” and “servants”. It appears in 24 verses of the New Testament.
“Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.”
Meaning
Usually translated “servant”, “boy” and “servants”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- servant 12
- boy 5
- servants 2
- child 2
- boys 1
- children 1
- men-servants 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 9
- Matthew 8
- Acts 6
- John 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 8:6And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
- Matthew 8:8The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
- Matthew 8:13And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
- Matthew 12:18Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
- Matthew 14:2And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
- Matthew 17:18And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Greek dictionary
παῖς pais · child
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 …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “child” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHILD, noun
- A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of parents; applied to the human race, and chiefly to a person when young.“Hagar cast the child under one of the shrubs” Genesis 21:15“Jephthas daughter was his only child” Judges 11:34“The child shall behave himself proudly” Isaiah 3:5
- One weak in knowledge, experience, judgment or attainments; as, he is a mere child“Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child” Jeremiah 1:6
- One young in grace. 1
- One who is born again, spiritually renewed and adopted; as a child of God.
All definitions and other forms of “child”
- One who is the product of another; or whose principles and morals are the product of another.“Thou child of the devil” Acts 13:10
- In the plural, the descendants of a man however remote; as the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
- The inhabitants of a country; as the children of Seir.
CHILD, verb intransitive
To bring children.
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.