νέος neos

Greek word for “new” · Strong’s G3501 · used 24 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

νέος, -α, -ον; 1. young, youthful:.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for neos in context, with how often each is used:

• new 11
• younger 5
• younger men 3
• younger ones 2
• nea 1
• younger women 1
• young women 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Timothy 5 (4), Luke 5 (3), Luke 15 (2), Titus 2 (2), Matthew 9 (1), Mark 2 (1), Luke 22 (1), John 21 (1), Acts 5 (1), Acts 16 (1)

Forms

• νέον 9
• νεώτερος 4
• νεωτέρας 3
• νεώτεροι 2
• νεωτέρους 2
• νέας 2
• νέος 1
• Νέαν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with neos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• παλαιός palaios “old” 5
• ἀσκός askos “wineskin” 4
• οἶνος oinos “wine” 4
• ῥήγνυμι rhēgnumi “to throw violently” 3
• οὐσία ousia “estate” 2
• καινός kainos “new” 3
• πρεσβύτερος presbuteros “elder” 3
• ἀπολλύω apolluō “to destroy” 3
• βάλλω ballō “to throw” 3
• γέ ge “indeed” 2
• γαμέω gameō “to marry” 2
• ἐκχέω ekcheō “to pour out” 2

Key verses

The verses using neos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 15:13 — And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
• Luke 22:26 — But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
• 1 Corinthians 5:7 — Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
• Colossians 3:10 — And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• 1 Timothy 5:1 — Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
• 1 Timothy 5:2 — The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
• 1 Timothy 5:11 — But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
• 1 Timothy 5:14 — I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
• Titus 2:4 — That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Titus 2:6 — Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
• Hebrews 12:24 — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
• 1 Peter 5:5 — Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.