Strong's Concordance
neanias: a young man
Original Word: νεανίας, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: neanias
Phonetic Spelling: (neh-an-ee'-as)
Short Definition: a young man, youth
Definition: a young man, youth; a man in his prime (used even of a man of 40).
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 Latin
adulescens 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.
