Strong's G3816

παῖς(paîs)

Language:
Greek (New Testament)

Definition

a boy (as often beaten with impunity), or (by analogy), a girl, and (genitive case) a child; specially, a slave or servant (especially a minister to a king; and by eminence to God)

Derivation

perhaps from G3817 (παίω);

KJV Translation

In the King James Version, παῖς is translated as: child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Greek root word in the New Testament. The Greek dictionary covers all 5,624 root words. This entry is in the public domain.