Word Summary
anepsios: a cousin
Original Word: ἀνεψιόςTransliteration: 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.
see GREEK a
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 431: ἀνεψιόςἀνεψιός,
ἀνεψιου,
ὁ (for
ἀνεπτιοςcon-nepot-ius, cf. Latin
nepos, 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
.)