Greek noun (neuter) · G1025
βρέφος
brephosbref'-os
an unborn child; a newborn child, a babe
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bréphos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1025is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1025
an infant (properly, unborn) literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: babe, (young) child, infant.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
brephos is rendered "an unborn child; a newborn child, a babe". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "an unborn child".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:41βρέφος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eight uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: an unborn child, and a newborn child, a babe.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| an unborn childLuk.1:41, 44. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb… |
| a newborn child, a babeLuk.2:12, 16 18:15, Act.7:19, 1Pe.2:2; ἀπὸ βρέφους, from infancy, 2Ti.3:15.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 2:12And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βρέφος4
- βρέφη3
- βρέφους1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural2N-APN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular2N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2N-NSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1N-GSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1N-NPN
Luke
five uses
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
- βρέφοςbrephosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: baby
For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
- βρέφοςbrephosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: baby
And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- βρέφοςbrephosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a baby
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the Baby, who was lying in the manger.
- βρέφοςbrephosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: baby
Now people were even bringing their babies to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them. And when the disciples saw this, they rebuked those who brought them.
- βρέφηbrephenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: infants
Acts
one use
He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- βρέφηbrephenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: infants
2 Timothy
one use
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- βρέφουςbrephousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: childhood
1 Peter
one use
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
- βρέφηbrephenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: babies
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.