νεᾶνις
young woman, maiden
Where this word appears
Every passage where νεᾶνις appears in the Greek Septuagint — 25 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 2:8 νεᾶνις And the daughter of Pharao said, Go: and the young woman went, and called the mother of the child.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 νεᾶνις and shall fine him one hundred shekels, and shall give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away.
- Deuteronomy 22:20 νεᾶνις But if this report be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel;
- Deuteronomy 22:21 νεᾶνις then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by whoring: so you shall remove the evil one from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:24 νεᾶνις you⌃ shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbor's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves.
- Deuteronomy 22:26 νεᾶνις And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and kill him, so is this thing;
- Deuteronomy 22:26 νεᾶνις And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and kill him, so is this thing;
- Deuteronomy 22:27 νεᾶνις because he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to help her.
- Deuteronomy 22:29 νεᾶνις the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver didrachmas, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put her away.
- Judges 19:3 νεᾶνις And her husband rose up, and went after her to speak kindly to her, to recover her to himself; and he had his young man with him, and a pair of asses; and she brought him into the house of her father; and the father of the damsel saw him, and was well pleased to meet him.
- Judges 19:4 νεᾶνις And his father-in-law, the father of the damsel, constrained him, and he stayed with him for three days; and they ate and drank, and lodged there.
- Judges 19:5 νεᾶνις And it came to pass on the fourth day that they rose early, and he stood up to depart; and the father of the damsel said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterwards you⌃ shall go.
- Judges 19:6 νεᾶνις So they two sat down together and ate and drank: and the father of the damsel said to her husband, Tarry now the night, and let your heart be merry.
- Judges 19:8 νεᾶνις And he rose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the father of the damsel said, Strengthen now your heart, and quit yourself as a soldier till the day decline; and the two ate.
- Judges 19:9 νεᾶνις And the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine, and his young man; but his father-in-law the father of the damsel said to him, Behold now, the day has declined toward evening; lodge here, an let your heart rejoice; and you⌃ shall rise early to-morrow for your journey, and you shall go to your habitation.
- Judges 21:12 νεᾶνις And they found among the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Selom in the land of Chanaan.
- Ruth 2:5 νεᾶνις And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose is this damsel?
- 1 Kings 1:2 νεᾶνις And his servants said, Let them seek for the king a young virgin, and she shall wait on the king, and cherish him, and lie with him, and my lord the king shall be warmed.
- 1 Kings 1:3 νεᾶνις So they sought for a fair damsel out of all the coasts of Israel; and they found Abisag the Somanite, and they brought her to the king.
- 1 Kings 1:4 νεᾶνις And the damsel was extremely beautiful, and she cherished the king, and ministered to him, but the king knew her not.
- 2 Kings 5:2 νεᾶνις And the Syrians went forth in small bands, and took captive out of the land of Israel a little maid: and she waited on Naiman's wife.
- 2 Kings 5:4 νεᾶνις And she went in and told her lord, and said, Thus and thus spoke the maid from the land of Israel.
- Psalms 67:26 νεᾶνις Praise God in the congregations, the Lord from the fountains of Israel.
- Song of Solomon 1:3 νεᾶνις And the smell of your ointments is better than all spices: your name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love you.
- Song of Solomon 6:8 νεᾶνις My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yes, and the concubines, and they will praise her.
About this word
About this word
νεᾶνις (neânis), “young woman, maiden,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 25 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →