νήπιος

Matthew 11:25 νηπίοις. to little children.

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Here: "Infants": people who are untaught and have no standing. They are the unschooled disciples and ordinary people with no claim to expertise. The word points to low status, not innocence.

Matthew 21:16 νηπίων of babes

“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

Here: Very young children, and figuratively the simple and uninstructed. It recalls Matthew 11:25, where the Father hides things 'from the wise and learned and reveals them to little children' (the same word).

Luke 10:21 νηπίοις. to little children.

At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

Here: Literally infants or small children; figuratively the untrained and insignificant. Here it means Jesus’ ordinary Galilean followers, set against the learned. The point is their low standing, not innocence.

Romans 2:20 νηπίων, of infants,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

Here: Literally a small child; figuratively someone untaught or immature. Here, people who are beginners in knowing God, most likely outsiders drawn to Israel's God and its way of life.

1 Corinthians 3:1 νηπίοις to infants

Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

Here: A baby still at the breast, too young to talk sense. In Greek it also carried the idea of naive or foolish. It is the opposite of the "mature" (teleioi) of 2:6, and it sets up the milk image in 3:2.

1 Corinthians 13:11 νήπιος, νήπιος, νήπιος, νήπιος· νηπίου. a child,, a child;, child.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

Here: A small child, someone not yet able to speak or judge like an adult. The word is chosen to contrast with 'grown man' (and with 'the complete/full-grown' of v. 10).

Galatians 4:1 νήπιός a child

What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

Galatians 4:3 νήπιοι, children,

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

Here: Picks up the nēpios of 4:1: an heir who is a legal minor and so has no power over his own inheritance. The point is lack of status and freedom, not innocence or cuteness.

Ephesians 4:14 νήπιοι infants

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

Here: Small children who can't yet judge for themselves. It is the deliberate opposite of the 'mature man' (anēr teleios) in verse 13, and the point is that they are gullible and easily led, not that they are innocent.

1 Thessalonians 2:7 νήπιοι infants

On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.

Here: The reading of the oldest manuscripts and of the supplied text: 'we became infants among you'. It points to being guileless, without schemes, and without claims to status, the opposite of the flattery, greed and glory-seeking Paul denies in 2:3–6. Many manuscripts and most English versions read *ēpioi*, 'gentle', instead (see textual notes).

Hebrews 5:13 νήπιος an infant

For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.

Here: A small child not yet capable of adult judgment. In Greek teaching and in Paul it is the stock opposite of teleios, "mature, full-grown", the word that opens verse 14. Said to adults who "ought to be teachers," it stings.