STRONGS NUMBER G1025


Word Summary
brephos: an unborn or a newborn child
Original Word: βρέφος
Transliteration: brephos
Phonetic Spelling: (bref'-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: an unborn or a newborn child
Meaning: an unborn or a newborn child
Strong's Concordance
unborn or newborn child, infant

Of uncertain affinity; an infant (properly, unborn) literally or figuratively -- babe, (young) child, infant.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1025: βρέφος

βρέφος, βρέφους, τό;

a. an unborn child, embryo, fetus: Luke 1:41, 44; (Homer, Iliad 23, 266; Plutarch, rep. Stoic. 41 τό βρέφος ἐν τῇ γαστρί).

b. a new-born child, an infant, a babe (so from Pindar down): Luke 2:12, 16; Luke 18:15; Acts 7:19; 1 Peter 2:2; ἀπό βρέφους from infancy, 2 Timothy 3:15 (so ἐκ βρέφους, Anth. Pal. 9, 567).