noun · masculine
neaniskos
Strong’sG3495
a young man
stem neanisk-10 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books5 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
νεανίσκος, -ου, ὁ
(dimin. of νεανίας), [in LXX chiefly for נַעַר, also for בָּחוּר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3495 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidneh-an-is'-kos
a youth (under forty)
Fromfrom the same as G3494;
King Jamesyoung man.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect νεην-, ὁ, (νεάν) youth, young man, Refs 5th c.BC+; ν. τὸ εἶδος (nisi to be read νεανικός) Refs 5th c.BC+; but in Refs 5th c.BC+ and the eldest son of Socrates is called νεανίσκος Refs 5th c.BC+ in later Gr., Wilcken NT+3rd c.BC+
2 ὁ ἐμὸς ν. my young man, i.e. servant, NT+3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | neaniskos3×νεανίσκος | neaniskois2×νεανίσκοι |
| object accusative | neaniskon2×νεανίσκον | neaniskoin |
| direct address vocative | neaniskor1×Νεανίσκε | neaniskoir2×νεανίσκοι |
| of, belonging to genitive | neaniskou | neaniskoiu |
| to, for dative | neanisko | neaniskoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
neanisko is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
neaniskos“young man”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 19:20legatō auto tos neaniskos; Panteim houteim fulassama; tinem ēti husteramō?… these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
Matthew 19:22akouarantos de tos neaniskos ton logon aperchata luporōntos, ate gar …When the young man heard this, he went away in …
Mark 14:51Kai neaniskos tinos sunakolouthate auto peribalorēntos sindonan epi …One young man who had been following Jesus was …
neaniskon“young man”objectaccusative singular2×
Mark 16:5kai eisercharantais eis tem mnēmeiem horala neaniskon kathorōnton en tei dexei peribalorēnton stolan …… entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting …
Acts 23:22tos men oun chiliarchos apoluata ton neaniskon parangelarantos mēdeno eklalara hoti houteim emfanizasa …So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Do not tell …
neaniskor“young man”direct addressvocative singular1×
Luke 7:14… tois de bastazarōntois stēala, kai legata; Neaniskor, si legamō, egerisar.… and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get …
neaniskois“young men”subjectnominative plural2×
Acts 2:17… kai tais thugatrais vu, kai tois neaniskois vu horasiain horeli, kai tois presbuterois …… sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men …
Acts 5:10… autou kai ekpsuchata; eisercharantois de tois neaniskois heuriskala autan nekran, kai ekferarantois thaptala …… his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead …
neaniskoir“young men”direct addressvocative plural2×
1 John 2:13… gnōskavē ton apo archau; grafamō vi, neaniskoir, hoti nikavē ton ponēron.… beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil …
1 John 2:14… gnōskavē ton apo archau; grafama vi, neaniskoir, hoti ischurois avō kai tos logos …… beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the …