παῖς
paîs
a 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)
Lexicon
Derivation: perhaps from G3817 (παίω);
a 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)
- a 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man
Usage
24 occurrences · 0 OT · 24 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- servant8 · 33%
- the child3 · 13%
- son3 · 13%
- the children2 · 8%
- child2 · 8%
- servants1 · 4%
- of the maiden1 · 4%
- maid1 · 4%
- the menservants1 · 4%
- of the servants1 · 4%
- the young man1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.