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It is used in the New Testament to describe both unborn and born children, emphasizing their vulnerability and innocence. The term can denote a child still in the womb or one who has just been born, highlighting the continuity of life before and after birth.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In the Greco-Roman world, infants were often seen as the most vulnerable members of society, dependent entirely on their parents or guardians for survival. The early Christian community, following Jewish traditions, placed a high value on children, viewing them as a blessing from God. This perspective is evident in the New Testament's use of "brephos," which underscores the sanctity and value of life from conception.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>a prim. word<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>an unborn or a newborn child<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>babies (2), baby (4), childhood (1), infants (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 1025: βρέφος</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">βρέφος</span></span>, <span class="greek2">βρέφους</span>, <span class="greek2">τό</span>; <p><span class="emphasized">a.</span> <span class="accented">an unborn child, embryo, fetus</span>: <a href="/interlinear/luke/1-41.htm">Luke 1:41, 44</a>; (<span class="abbreviation">Homer</span>, Iliad 23, 266; <span class="abbreviation">Plutarch</span>, rep. Stoic. 41 <span class="greek2">τό</span> <span class="greek2">βρέφος</span> <span class="greek2">ἐν</span> <span class="greek2">τῇ</span> <span class="greek2">γαστρί</span>). <p><span class="emphasized">b.</span> <span class="accented">a new-born child, an infant, a babe</span> (so from <span class="abbreviation">Pindar</span> down): <a href="/interlinear/luke/2-12.htm">Luke 2:12, 16</a>; <a href="/interlinear/luke/18-15.htm">Luke 18:15</a>; <a href="/interlinear/acts/7-19.htm">Acts 7:19</a>; <a href="/interlinear/1_peter/2-2.htm">1 Peter 2:2</a>; <span class="greek2">ἀπό</span> <span class="greek2">βρέφους</span> from infancy, <a href="/interlinear/2_timothy/3-15.htm">2 Timothy 3:15</a> (so <span class="greek2">ἐκ</span> <span class="greek2">βρέφους</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Anth. Pal.</span> 9, 567).<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>unborn or newborn child, infant<p>Of uncertain affinity; an infant (properly, unborn) literally or figuratively -- babe, (young) child, infant. <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>βρεφη βρέφη βρεφος βρέφος βρεφους βρέφους brephe brephē bréphe bréphē brephos bréphos brephous bréphous<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/luke/1-41.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 1:41</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular">N-NNS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/1.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἐσκίρτησεν τὸ <b>βρέφος</b> ἐν τῇ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/1.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> greeting, <span class="itali">the baby</span> leaped<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/1.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> of Mary, <span class="itali">the babe</span> leaped<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/1-41.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> leaped the <span class="itali">baby</span> in the<p><b><a href="/text/luke/1-44.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 1:44</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular">N-NNS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/1.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἀγαλλιάσει τὸ <b>βρέφος</b> ἐν τῇ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/1.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> my ears, <span class="itali">the baby</span> leaped<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/1.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> mine ears, <span class="itali">the babe</span> leaped in<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/1-44.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> exultation the <span class="itali">baby</span> in the<p><b><a href="/text/luke/2-12.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 2:12</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular">N-ANS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">σημεῖον εὑρήσετε <b>βρέφος</b> ἐσπαργανωμένον καὶ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> for you: you will find <span class="itali">a baby</span> wrapped in cloths<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> Ye shall find <span class="itali">the babe</span> wrapped in swaddling clothes,<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/2-12.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> sign you will find <span class="itali">a baby</span> wrapped in swaddling clothes and<p><b><a href="/text/luke/2-16.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 2:16</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular">N-ANS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ τὸ <b>βρέφος</b> κείμενον ἐν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> and Joseph, <span class="itali">and the baby</span> as He lay<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> Joseph, and <span class="itali">the babe</span> lying in<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/2-16.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> and the <span class="itali">baby</span> lying in<p><b><a href="/text/luke/18-15.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 18:15</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural">N-ANP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/18.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ τὰ <b>βρέφη</b> ἵνα αὐτῶν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/18.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> even <span class="itali">their babies</span> to Him so<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/18.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> also <span class="itali">infants,</span> that<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/18-15.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> also the <span class="itali">little children</span> that them<p><b><a href="/text/acts/7-19.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 7:19</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural">N-ANP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/7.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ποιεῖν τὰ <b>βρέφη</b> ἔκθετα αὐτῶν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/acts/7.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> so that they would expose <span class="itali">their infants</span> and they would not survive.<br><a href="/kjvs/acts/7.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> their <span class="itali">young children,</span> to the end<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/7-19.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> making the <span class="itali">infants</span> cast out of them<p><b><a href="/text/2_timothy/3-15.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">2 Timothy 3:15</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular">N-GNS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/2_timothy/3.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ὅτι ἀπὸ <b>βρέφους</b> τὰ ἱερὰ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/2_timothy/3.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> <span class="itali">and that from childhood</span> you have known<br><a href="/kjvs/2_timothy/3.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> from <span class="itali">a child</span> thou hast known<br><a href="/interlinear/2_timothy/3-15.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> that from <span class="itali">childhood</span> the sacred<p><b><a href="/text/1_peter/2-2.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">1 Peter 2:2</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural">N-NNP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/1_peter/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ὡς ἀρτιγέννητα <b>βρέφη</b> τὸ λογικὸν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/1_peter/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> like newborn <span class="itali">babies,</span> long for the pure<br><a href="/kjvs/1_peter/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> As newborn <span class="itali">babes,</span> desire the sincere<br><a href="/interlinear/1_peter/2-2.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> as newborn <span class="itali">infants</span> the divinely reasonable<p><b><a href="/greek/1025.htm">Strong's Greek 1025</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_1025.htm">8 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/brephe__1025.htm">βρέφη — 3 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/brephos_1025.htm">βρέφος — 4 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/brephous_1025.htm">βρέφους — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/1024.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1024"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1024" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/1026.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1026"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1026" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>