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SBL Greek New Testament lexicon

παῖς

Lemmaπαῖς
Citation formπαῖς, παιδός, ὁ/ἡ
Part of speechnoun
Glossa boy or girl child
Strong’sG3816
Transliterationpaîs
Definitiona 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)
KJV glosses:--child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.
Derivationperhaps from
SBLGNT occurrences24

Forms and grammatical context

Each form is parsed from its actual MorphGNT occurrence; a form may have more than one analysis depending on context.

Greek formGrammar and occurrences
παῖδα
noun, accusative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----ASM-) — Luke 9:42
noun, accusative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----ASM-) — Acts 20:12
noun, accusative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----ASM-) — Acts 3:13
noun, accusative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----ASM-) — Acts 3:26
παῖδά
noun, accusative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----ASM-) — Acts 4:27
παῖδας
noun, accusative, plural, masculine (MorphGNT ----APM-) — Matthew 2:16
noun, accusative, plural, masculine (MorphGNT ----APM-) — Matthew 21:15
noun, accusative, plural, masculine (MorphGNT ----APM-) — Luke 12:45
παιδὸς
noun, genitive, singular, feminine (MorphGNT ----GSF-) — Luke 8:51
noun, genitive, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----GSM-) — Luke 1:54
noun, genitive, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----GSM-) — Luke 1:69
παιδός
noun, genitive, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----GSM-) — Acts 4:25
noun, genitive, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----GSM-) — Acts 4:30
παίδων
noun, genitive, plural, masculine (MorphGNT ----GPM-) — Luke 15:26
παῖς
noun, nominative, singular, feminine (MorphGNT ----NSF-) — Luke 8:54
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — Matthew 12:18
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — Matthew 17:18
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — Matthew 8:13
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — Matthew 8:6
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — Matthew 8:8
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — Luke 2:43
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — Luke 7:7
noun, nominative, singular, masculine (MorphGNT ----NSM-) — John 4:51
παισὶν
noun, dative, plural, masculine (MorphGNT ----DPM-) — Matthew 14:2

Morphology

Occurrences

Septuagint occurrences

The same normalized Greek lemma occurs in the Rahlfs Septuagint: παις.

Additional Greek lexicons

Compare the biblical entry for παῖς with classical and later Greek dictionaries collected by Logeion.