νεανίσκος
youth
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3495 appears in the Book of 1 John — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 John
- 1 John 2:13 νεανίσκοι n voc pl masc I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
- 1 John 2:14 νεανίσκοι n voc pl masc I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
νεανισκος — transliterated neanískos — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “youth.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 19:20. Spanning 11 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (36% of all occurrences). Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3495 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 45%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 45%
- Johannine 2 verses · 18%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Young man 5×, Young men 5×
- American Standard Version: Young man 4×, Young men 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Young man 7×, Young men 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Young man 6×, Young men 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3495 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3495 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3495 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3495 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- used of a young attendant or servant
Word origin
Derived from νεανιας (neanías) (G3494) — young man.
From the same as G3494 ; a youth (under forty): - young man.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3495 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νεανίσκοι neanískoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 2:17 | 4 |
| νεανίσκον neanískon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 16:5 | 3 |
| νεανίσκος neanískos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 19:20 | 3 |
| νεανίσκε neaníske | Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 7:14 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νεανισκος appears 71 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 70 verses in 22 books.
- 71
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 70
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:23 νεανίσκος
- Exodus 10:9 νεανίσκος
- Numbers 11:27 νεανίσκος
- Deuteronomy 32:25 νεανίσκος
- Joshua 2:1 νεανίσκος
- Judges 14:10 νεανίσκος
- 1 Samuel 9:27 νεανίσκος
- 2 Samuel 10:9 νεανίσκος
- 2 Chronicles 11:1 νεανίσκος
- Ezra 10:1 νεανίσκος
- Job 29:8 νεανίσκος
- Psalms 77:63 νεανίσκος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3495) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 70. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:23 νεανίσκος Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 14:24 νεανίσκος Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."
- Genesis 19:4 νεανίσκος But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Genesis 25:27 νεανίσκος The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
- Genesis 34:19 νεανίσκος The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
- Genesis 41:12 νεανίσκος There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
- Exodus 10:9 νεανίσκος Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."
- Exodus 24:5 νεανίσκος He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
- Numbers 11:27 νεανίσκος There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
- Deuteronomy 32:25 νεανίσκος Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
- Joshua 2:1 νεανίσκος Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
- Joshua 2:23 νεανίσκος Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
- Joshua 6:21 νεανίσκος They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 6:22 νεανίσκος Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.
- Joshua 6:23 νεανίσκος The young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
- Judges 14:10 νεανίσκος His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
- Judges 18:3 νεανίσκος When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?
- Judges 18:15 νεανίσκος They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
- Judges 19:19 νεανίσκος Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.
- 1 Samuel 9:27 νεανίσκος As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.
- 1 Samuel 20:22 νεανίσκος But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
- 2 Samuel 10:9 νεανίσκος Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
- 2 Chronicles 11:1 νεανίσκος When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 νεανίσκος Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
- Ezra 10:1 νεανίσκος Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
- Job 29:8 νεανίσκος The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;
- Psalms 77:63 νεανίσκος
- Psalms 148:12 νεανίσκος Both young men and maidens; Old men and children:
- Proverbs 20:11 νεανίσκος Even a child makes himself known by his doings, Whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15 νεανίσκος I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 νεανίσκος Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- Isaiah 3:4 νεανίσκος I will give boys to be their princes, And children shall rule over them.
- Isaiah 9:16 νεανίσκος For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.
- Isaiah 13:18 νεανίσκος [Their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
- Isaiah 20:4 νεανίσκος so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
- Isaiah 23:4 νεανίσκος Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
- Isaiah 31:8 νεανίσκος The Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor.
- Isaiah 40:30 νεανίσκος Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
- Isaiah 62:5 νεανίσκος For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
- Jeremiah 6:11 νεανίσκος Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
- Jeremiah 9:20 νεανίσκος Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
- Jeremiah 11:22 νεανίσκος therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
- Jeremiah 15:8 νεανίσκος Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
- Jeremiah 18:21 νεανίσκος Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.
- Jeremiah 27:30 νεανίσκος
- Jeremiah 27:44 νεανίσκος
- Jeremiah 28:3 νεανίσκος Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
- Jeremiah 28:22 νεανίσκος
- Jeremiah 30:13 νεανίσκος There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
- Jeremiah 30:32 νεανίσκος
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3495) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
