Senses
1. child, young child, infant — A young child, infant, or small boy/girl; the diminutive of παῖς used throughout the Gospels for Jesus as an infant (Matt 2:8-14; Luke 2:17, 27, 40), for children brought to Jesus (Matt 18:2-5; 19:13-14; Mark 10:15), and as a term of endearment for disciples (1 John 2:18). Multilingual evidence is uniform across number: Spanish 'niño/niños', Hindi 'बालक/बच्चे', Arabic 'طِفْل/أَوْلَاد', Korean '아이/아이들', Swahili 'mtoto/watoto'. The singular cluster (S73700) and plural cluster (S73701) are purely grammatical number variants of the same lexical sense — a young child or infant — not semantically distinct meanings. 52×
AR["أَيُّهَا-الطِّفْلُ","الصَّبِيَّ","الصَّبِيُّ","الصَّبِيِّ","طِفلٍ","طِفْلَ","طِفْلُ","طِفْلِ","طِّفْلَةَ"]·ben["ছেলের","শিশু","শিশু।","শিশুকে","শিশুকে,","শিশুটির;","শিশুর","শিশুর।"]·DE["Kind","Kindlein"]·EN["child"]·FR["petit-enfant"]·heb["הַיֶּלֶד","יֶּלֶד","יֶלֶד"]·HI["आया","बच्चे","बच्चे-का","बालक","बालक-का","बालक-के","बालक-को"]·ID["anak","anak,","anak-kecil","anak.","anak;","itu"]·IT["bambino"]·jav["jabang-bayi","jabang-bayi,","lare","lare-alit,","larenipun","larenipun,","larenipun.","larenipun;","laré"]·KO["아이","아이-가","아이-를","아이-에-관하여","아이-의","아이가","아이여","어린아이처럼"]·PT["criança","filhinho","menino"]·RU["Дитя","Младенец","Младенца","Младенце","дитя","младенца","ребёнка"]·ES["niña","niño"]·SW["mtoto"]·TR["çocuk","çocuğu","çocuğum","çocuğun"]·urd["بچہ","بچی-کو","بچے","بچے-کا","بچے-کو","بچے-کی","بچے-کے"]
Matt 2:8, Matt 2:9, Matt 2:11, Matt 2:13, Matt 2:13, Matt 2:14, Matt 2:20, Matt 2:20, Matt 2:21, Matt 11:16, Matt 14:21, Matt 15:38 (+38 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
παιδί-ον (paroxytone), τό, diminutive of παῖς (never in Trag.), little or young child (up to 7 years, accusative to Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ παιδίου from a child, Refs 5th c.BC+ 'chip of the old block', Refs 1st c.BC+ __II young slave, male or female, Refs 5th c.BC+ __III τὸ παιδίον, a disease of children, probably convulsions, uncertain reading in Refs 5th c.BC+ __III.3 παίδι-ος, ὁ, barbarism for {παιδιόθεν}, Refs 1st c.AD+