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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BAPTISM, INFANT

See BAPTISM (I), II; (II), III, 3, v; (III), III, 3.

INFANT, BAPTISM

in'-fant.

See BAPTISM.

Greek

3516. nepios -- an infant, fig. a simple-minded or immature person
... 3515, 3516. nepios. 3517 . an infant, fig. a simple-minded ... an infant, child.
Word Origin of uncertain origin Definition an infant, fig. ...
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3515. nepiazo -- to be an infant
... to be an infant. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: nepiazo Phonetic Spelling:
(nay-pee-ad'-zo) Short Definition: I am childish, infantile Definition: I am ...
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1025. brephos -- an unborn or a newborn child
... an unborn or a newborn child. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: brephos
Phonetic Spelling: (bref'-os) Short Definition: infant, babe Definition ...
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3813. paidion -- a young child
... young child. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: paidion Phonetic Spelling:
(pahee-dee'-on) Short Definition: a little child, an infant Definition: a ...
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4683. sparganoo -- to wrap in swaddling clothes
... From sparganon (a strip; from a derivative of the base of sparasso meaning to strap
or wrap with strips); to swathe (an infant after the Oriental custom ...
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5040. teknion -- a little child
... little child. Diminutive of teknon; an infant, ie (plural figuratively) darlings
(Christian converts) -- little children. see GREEK teknon. ...
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2012. epitropos -- an administrator (one having authority)
... ep-it'-rop-os) Short Definition: a steward, guardian Definition: (a) (procurator)
a steward, (b) (tutor) a guardian (appointed for an infant [under 14 perhaps ...
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451. Hanna -- Anna, a prophetess
... Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Hanna Phonetic Spelling: (an'-nah) Short
Definition: Anna Definition: Anna, a prophetess, who visited the infant Jesus. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5764. ul -- a sucking child, suckling
... 5763, 5764. ul. 5765 . a sucking child, suckling. Transliteration: ul Phonetic
Spelling: (ool) Short Definition: infant. ... sucking child, infant. ...
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5768. olel -- a child
... babe, young child, infant, little one. Or lolal {o-lawl'}; from uwl; a suckling --
babe, (young) child, infant, little one. see HEBREW uwl. 5767b, 5768. ...
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3243. yanaq -- to suck
... root Definition to suck NASB Word Usage draw (1), infant (3), infants (2), milking
(1), nurse (11), nursed (3), nurses (1), nursing (1), nursing babes (1 ...
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Library

The Angel and the Infant
... THE ANGEL AND THE INFANT. THE ANGEL AND THE INFANT 8,6,8,6. [23]Unbekanntes. ...
Smiling, a bright-eyed seraph bent. Over an infant's dream; ...
/.../borthwick/hymns from the land of luther/the angel and the infant.htm

Infant Salvation
... Infant Salvation. A Sermon (No.411). Delivered on Sunday Morning, September 29th,
1861 by the. Rev. CH SPURGEON,. At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/infant salvation.htm

For an Infant School.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN CCCXLII. For an Infant School. 8.8.8.8 James Montgomery. For
an Infant School. "Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child.""I. Sam. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn cccxlii for an infant.htm

Infant Baptism.
... RELIGIOUS EXULTATION. 670. " Infant Baptism. 670. 7s. M. Bowring. Infant
Baptism. 1 Drop the limpid waters now On the infant's ...
/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/670 infant baptism.htm

Death of an Infant.
... MOURNING AND CONSOLATION. 582. " Death of an Infant. 582. LM Epis. Coll.
Death of an Infant. 1 As the sweet flower that scents ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/adams/hymns for christian devotion/582 death of an.htm

Infant Baptism.
... SERMON XVI. Infant Baptism. "Except ... sin. Who does not see that this reason
is equally cogent for infant Baptism as for Baptism at all? ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon xvi infant baptism.htm

Dirge for an Infant.
... MOURNING AND CONSOLATION. 587. " Dirge for an Infant. 587. 7s. M. Anonymous. Dirge
for an Infant. 1 Lay her gently in the dust; Grievous task, but oh! ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/adams/hymns for christian devotion/587 dirge for an.htm

An Empty Book is Like an Infant's Soul
... THE FIRST CENTURY 1 An empty book is like an infant's soul. An empty book
is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/traherne/centuries of meditations/1 an empty book is.htm

Christ the Saviour Even of Infants; Christ, when an Infant, was ...
... Book II. Chapter 48."Christ the Saviour Even of Infants; Christ, When
an Infant, Was Free from Ignorance and Mental Weakness. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 48 christ the saviour even.htm

Argument: the Story About Christians Drinking the Blood of an ...
... Chapter XXX."Argument: The Story About Christians Drinking the Blood of
an Infant that They Have Murdered, is a Barefaced Calumny. ...
/.../felix/the octavius of minucius felix/chapter xxx argument the story about.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.

2. (n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

3. (n.) Same as Infante.

4. (a.) of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

5. (a.) Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

6. (v. t.) To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general.

Thesaurus

Infant (14 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Same as Infante. 4. (a.) of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period
of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength. ... BAPTISM, INFANT. ...
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Infant's (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Infant's (1 Occurrence). Lamentations 4:4 Cleaved
hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst ...
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Infanticide
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder
or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. ...
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Baby (23 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An infant or young child of either sex;
a babe. 2. (n.) A small image of an infant; a doll. 3. (a ...
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Babe (15 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby. ... Nepios is also used of a
child as a minor or infant in the eye of the law (Galatians 4:1, 3). T. Rees. ...
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Nurse (23 Occurrences)
... nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who
has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her ...
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Nursing (14 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurse. 2. (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or
as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant. Int. ...
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Baptist (16 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism
and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to ...
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Infancy (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The state or period of being an infant;
the first part of life; early childhood. 2. (n.) The first ...
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Midwife (4 Occurrences)
... The duties which they had to perform are enumerated in Ezekiel 16:4: division of
the cord, washing the infant in water, salting with salt and swathing in ...
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Bible Concordance

Infant (14 Occurrences)

Hebrews 5:13 for every one who is partaking of milk 'is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,
(YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 11:12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me,'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?'
(WEB NAS NIV)

Numbers 12:12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
(See NIV)

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
(Root in DBY YLT NAS NIV)

Esther 3:13 and letters to be sent by the hand of the runners unto all provinces of the king, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Jews, from young even unto old, infant and women, on one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month -- it 'is' the month of Adar -- and their spoil to seize,
(YLT)

Job 3:16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 24:9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
(See RSV NIV)

Isaiah 65:20 "There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 44:7 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 51:27 Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.
(YLT)

Lamentations 2:11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
(Root in WEB DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Lamentations 4:4 Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
(Root in YLT NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 9:6 aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom 'is' the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'
(YLT)

Subtopics

Related Terms

Infant's (1 Occurrence)

Infanticide

Baby (23 Occurrences)

Babe (15 Occurrences)

Nurse (23 Occurrences)

Nursing (14 Occurrences)