noun · feminine
neotas
Strong’sG3503
youth, youthfulness
stem neot-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 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.
νεότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< νέος), [in LXX chiefly for נְעוּרִים;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3503 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidneh-ot'-ace
newness, i.e. youthfulness
Fromfrom G3501;
King Jamesyouth.
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
Doric dialect -τας, ητος, ἡ, (νέος) youth, ἐκ νεότητος.. ἐς γῆρας NT+8th c.BC+; ἐρατὴν γὰρ ἀπωλέσαμεν νεότητα, i.e. we died young, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν νεότατι, ἐπὶ νεότητος, in one's youth, Refs 7th c.BC+; αἱ ν. ῥωμαλέαιRefs 4th c.AD+
2 youthful spirit, impetuosity, Refs 5th c.BC+: in bad sense, youthful folly, insolence, ἀκολασίᾳ καὶ ν. Refs 5th c.BC+
II collective, ={νεολαία}, body of youth, especially of military or athletic age, Refs 5th c.BC+
III in Crete, νεότας, ἁ, accusative νεότα, genitive νεότας, board of officials representing the νέοι Refs 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 | neotas | neotais |
| object accusative | neotan | neotain |
| direct address vocative | neotar | neotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | neotau4×νεότητος | neotaiu |
| to, for dative | neota | neotai |
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
neota 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
neotau“youth”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Mark 10:20… auto; Didaskalor, houteim panteim fulassema ek neotau mu.… these I have kept from my youth.”
Luke 18:21… de legata; Houteim panteim fulassama ek neotau mu.… these I have kept from my youth,” he said.
Acts 26:4“youth”… men oun biōsian mu tan ek neotau tan apo archau generantan en te …… have lived from my earliest childhood among my own …
1 Timothy 4:12mēdenos su tau neotau katafronatōr, alla tupos genosōr toiu pistoiu …Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the …