Lexical Summary neanias: a young man Original Word: νεανίαςTransliteration: neanias Phonetic Spelling: (neh-an-ee'-as) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a young man Meaning: a young man Strong's Concordance young man. From a derivative of neos; a youth (up to about forty years) -- young man. see GREEK neos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3494: νεανίαςνεανίας, νεανίου, ὁ (from νέαν, and this from νέος; cf. μεγιστάν (which see), ξυνάν), from Homer down; Hebrew נַעַר and בָּחוּר; a young man: Acts 20:9; Acts 23:17, and R G in 18 (so here WH text), 22; it is used as in Greek writings, like the Latinadulescens and the Hebrew נַעַר (Genesis 41:12), of men between twenty-four and forty years of age (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 213; (Diogenes Laërtius 8, 10; other references in Stephanus' Thesaurus, see under the words, νεᾶνις, νεανίσκος): Acts 7:58. |
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