noun · feminine
neotas
Greekνεότης (neotēs)
Strong’sG3503
youth, youthfulness
stem neot-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
neotau“youth”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Mark 10:20“youth”tos de fēate auto; Didaskalor, houteim panteim fulassema ek neotau mu.“Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”
Luke 18:21“youth”tos de legata; Houteim panteim fulassama ek neotau mu.“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.
Acts 26:4“youth”Tan men oun biōsian mu tan ek neotau tan apo archau gineratan en te ethne mu en tē Hierosolumei oidalē pantois Ioudaiois,Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem.
1 Timothy 4:12“youth”mēdenos su tau neotau katafronatōr, alla tupos ginesōr toiu pistoiu en logo, en anastrofa, en agapa, en pistia, en hagneia.Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.