νεότης
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3503 appears in the Book of 1 Timothy — 1 distinct verse. 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 Timothy
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.
The Greek noun νεοτης centers on the idea of “youth.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. Mark dominates its distribution — 1 of 4 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Mark 10:20. Sharing its root, it stands alongside νεος, νεανιας and νεοσσος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3503 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 25%
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: Youth 4×
- American Standard Version: Youth 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Youth 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Youth 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3503 across 5 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3503 across 4 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 G3503 across 4 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 G3503 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- youth, youthful age
Word origin
Derived from νεος (néos) (G3501) — young.
From G3501 ; newness that is youthfulness : - youth.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3503 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νεότητος neótētos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 18:21 | 3 |
| νεότητός neótētós | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Mark 10:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3503, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- νεανιας neanías G3494 young man
- νεοσσος neossós G3502 young creature
- νεοφυτος neóphytos G3504 newly planted
- νεωτερικος neōterikós G3512 youthful
- νουμηνια noumēnía G3561 new moon
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νεοτης appears 49 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 47 verses in 16 books.
- 49
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 47
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 8:21 νεότης
- Leviticus 22:13 νεότης
- Numbers 22:30 νεότης
- 1 Samuel 12:2 νεότης
- 2 Samuel 19:8 νεότης
- 1 Kings 18:12 νεότης
- Job 13:26 νεότης
- Psalms 24:7 νεότης
- Proverbs 2:17 νεότης
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 νεότης
- Isaiah 47:12 νεότης
- Jeremiah 2:2 νεότης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3503) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 8:21 νεότης Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 43:33 νεότης They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.
- Genesis 48:15 νεότης He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
- Leviticus 22:13 νεότης But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
- Numbers 22:30 νεότης The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he said, No.
- Numbers 30:4 νεότης and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
- Numbers 30:17 νεότης
- 1 Samuel 12:2 νεότης Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
- 1 Samuel 17:13 νεότης The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
- 2 Samuel 19:8 νεότης Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
- 1 Kings 18:12 νεότης It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.
- Job 13:26 νεότης For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
- Job 20:11 νεότης His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 31:18 νεότης (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);
- Job 36:14 νεότης They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
- Psalms 24:7 νεότης Lift up your heads, you gates; Be lifted up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.
- Psalms 42:4 νεότης These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
- Psalms 70:5 νεότης But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.
- Psalms 70:17 νεότης
- Psalms 87:16 νεότης
- Psalms 102:5 νεότης By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
- Psalms 128:1 νεότης Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, Who walks in his ways.
- Psalms 128:2 νεότης For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
- Psalms 143:12 νεότης In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.
- Proverbs 2:17 νεότης Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:
- Proverbs 5:18 νεότης Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
- Proverbs 30:19 νεότης The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent on a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 νεότης 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.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10 νεότης Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh; For youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1 νεότης Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
- Isaiah 47:12 νεότης Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
- Isaiah 47:15 νεότης Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
- Isaiah 54:6 νεότης For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your God.
- Jeremiah 2:2 νεότης Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Jeremiah 3:24 νεότης But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 3:25 νεότης Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
- Jeremiah 22:21 νεότης I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.
- Jeremiah 38:19 νεότης Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
- Jeremiah 39:30 νεότης
- Lamentations 3:27 νεότης It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
- Ezekiel 23:3 νεότης and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
- Ezekiel 23:8 νεότης Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
- Ezekiel 23:19 νεότης Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 23:21 νεότης Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.
- Zechariah 13:5 νεότης but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'
- Malachi 2:14 νεότης Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
- Malachi 2:15 νεότης Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3503) 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.
