νήπιος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=νήπια, νήπιον (from νή, an insep. neg. prefix (Latin nefas, nequam, nisi, etc. cf. [[Curtius]], § 437), and [[ἔπος]]); as in Greek writers from Homer down,<br /><b class="num">a.</b> an [[infant]], [[little]] [[child]]: Sept. [[especially]] for עולֵל and עולָל.<br /><b class="num">b.</b> a [[minor]], [[not]] of [[age]]: Lightfoot at the [[passage]]).<br /><b class="num">c.</b> [[metaphorically]], [[childish]], [[untaught]], [[unskilled]] (the Sept. for פְּתִי, τέλειοι, the [[more]] advanced in [[understanding]] and [[knowledge]], [[Philo]] de agric. § 2); νηπίοις ἐν Χριστῷ, in things pertaining to Christ, L WH (cf. the [[latter]]'s [[note]] at the [[passage]]) [[have]] [[hastily]] [[received]] νήπιοι for the [[common]] [[reading]] ἤπιοι.