# G3516 νήπιος

νήπιος (nḗpios), Strong’s G3516: not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian KJV: babe, child (+ -ish). Occurs 61 times.

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*nḗpios* — not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian

KJV: babe, child (+ -ish)

Derived from [ἔπος épos](https://besorah.bible/word/G2031) (a word)

Occurs 61 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 11:25](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/11?v=25) — At that time, Yeshua answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise…
- [Matthew 21:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=16) — and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Yeshua said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth…
- [Luke 10:21](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=21) — In that same hour, Yeshua rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that…
- [Romans 2:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=20) — a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
- [1 Corinthians 3:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/3?v=1) — Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Messiah.
- [1 Corinthians 13:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/13?v=11) — When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have…
- [Galatians 4:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/4?v=1) — But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
- [Galatians 4:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/4?v=3) — So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
- [Ephesians 4:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/ephesians/4?v=14) — that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery…
- [Hebrews 5:13](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/5?v=13) — For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.