STRONGS NUMBER G431


Word Summary
anepsios: a cousin
Original Word: ἀνεψιός
Transliteration: anepsios
Phonetic Spelling: (an-eps'-ee-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a cousin
Meaning: a cousin
Strong's Concordance
cousin, sister's son.

From a (as a particle of union) and an obsolete nepos (a brood); properly, akin, i.e. (specially) a cousin -- sister's son.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 431: ἀνεψιός

ἀνεψιός, ἀνεψιου, (for ἀνεπτιοςcon-nepot-ius, cf. Latinnepos, German nichte, English nephew, niece; Curtius, § 342), a cousin: Colossians 4:10. (Numbers 36:11; Tobit 7:2.) (Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 306; but especially Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited; also B. D. American edition under the word .)