Senses
1. baby, infant (person) — The noun βρέφος referring to a baby or infant as a person — an unborn child, newborn, or very young child. S64317 (singular: baby) and S64319 (plural: infants/babies) are number variants of the same referent. Multilingual glosses confirm: Hindi बालक/बच्चों (child/children), Arabic الْجَنِينُ/طِفْلَ/رُضَّعَ/أَطْفَالَ (fetus/infant/nurslings/children), Korean 아기/아기들 (baby/babies), Spanish bebé/niños/infantes (baby/children/infants), Swahili mtoto/watoto (child/children). 7×
AR["أطفالٍ","أَطْفَالَ","الْجَنِينُ","رُضَّعَ","طِفْلًا","طِفْلَ"]·ben["শিশু","শিশুকে","শিশুদের","শিশুরা"]·DE["Saeugling","βρέφη","βρέφος"]·EN["a-baby","baby","infants"]·FR["bébé","petit-enfant"]·heb["עֻבָּר","עוֹלְלֵיהֶם","תִּינוֹק","תִּינוֹקוֹת","תִּנֹקוֹת"]·HI["बच्चे","बच्चों","बच्चों-को","बालक"]·ID["bayi","bayi-bayi"]·IT["bambino","brephē","neonato"]·jav["bayi,","bayi-bayi","jabang-bayi","jabang-bayi,","lare,"]·KO["아기-가","아기-를","아기들","아기들-을","아기들을"]·PT["bebê","bebês","crianças,"]·RU["Младенца","младенец","младенцев","младенцы,"]·ES["bebé","bebés","infantes","niños"]·SW["mtoto","watoto","watoto-wachanga"]·TR["bebek","bebekler","bebeği","yapmalarına"]·urd["بچوں","بچہ","بچے","بچے،"]
2. infancy (period of life) — The noun βρέφος used abstractly to denote the period or state of infancy, referring not to the child as a person but to the developmental stage of early childhood. This appears in 2 Tim 3:15 ('from infancy you have known the sacred writings'). Multilingual glosses distinguish this from the concrete person-sense: Hindi बचपन (childhood, the abstract state), Arabic الطُّفولَةِ (infancy as a stage), Korean 유아기 (infancy period), Spanish infancia (infancy), Swahili utoto (childhood as condition). The abstract temporal sense is clearly distinct from the concrete personal referent. 1×
AR["الطُّفولَةِ"]·ben["শিশু"]·DE["Saeugling"]·EN["infancy"]·FR["petit-enfant"]·heb["יַלְדוּת"]·HI["बचपन"]·ID["kanak-kanak"]·IT["brephous"]·jav["bayi"]·KO["유아기-때부터"]·RU["младенчества"]·ES["infancia"]·SW["utoto"]·TR["bebeklikten"]·urd["بچپن-سے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
βρέφος, εος, τό, babe in the womb, foetus, β. ἡμίονον κυέουσαν, of a mare, Refs 8th c.BC+ __II new-born babe, LXX+5th c.BC+, etc.; of beasts, foal, whelp, cub, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; nestling, Refs 4th c.AD+; ἐκ βρέφεος from babyhood, NT. (Cf. Slavonic žrèbę 'foal'.)