παῖς

pai'" pai'", genitive
paidov",
oJ,
hJ, from Homer down; in the N. T. only in the Gospels and Acts;1. a child, boy or girl; the Septuagint for r['n" and hr;[}n" (; , etc.):
oJ
pai'", ; ; ; ;
hJ
pai'", , ; plural infants, children, ; ;
oJ
pai'"
tivno", the son of one, .2. (Like the Latin puer, equivalent to) servant, slave (Aeschylus cho?ph. 652; Aristophanes nub. 18, 132; Xenophon, mem. 3, 13, 6; symp. 1, 11; 2, 23; Plato, Charm., p. 155 a.; Protag., p. 310{c}. and often; Diodorus 17, 76; others; so the Septuagint times without number for db,[, (cf. Winer's Grammar, p. 30, no. 3); cf. the similar use of German Bursch (French garcon, English boy)): ,,; cf. ; ; . an attendant, servant, specifically, a king's attendant, minister: (Diodorus ; hardly so in the earlier Greek writings; f; ;, ; ; ,; Esdr. ; ,); hence, in imitation of the Hebrew hw:hy? db,[,,
pai'"
tou'
Qeou' is used of a devout worshipper of God, one who fulfils God's will ( (); (); Sap. , etc.) thus, the people of Israel, (; ; f,21, etc.); David, ; ( (); () (Aldine LXX, Complutensian LXX), etc.); likewise any upright and godly man whose agency God employs in executing his purposes; thus in the N. T. Jesus the Messiah: (from ); ,; , (cf. Harnack on the Epistle of Barnabas 6, 1 and Clement of Rome, , ); in the O. T. also Moses, f; the prophets, 1 Esdr. (81); , ; and others.*(Synonyms:
pai'",
paidavrion,
paidon,
paidivskh,
tevknon: The grammarian Aristophanes is quoted by Ammonius (under the word,
gevrwn) as defining thus:
paidivon,
tov
trefovmenon
uJpov
tiqhnou.
paidavrion
dev,
tov
h[dh
peripatoun
kaiv
th'"
levxew"
ajntecovmenon.
paidivsko"
d!,
oJ
ejn
th'/
ejcomevnh/
hJlikiva.
pai'"
d!
oJ
diav
tw'n
ejgkukliwn
maqhmatwn
dunavmeno"
ijevnai. Philo (de mund. opif. sec. 36) quotes the physician Hippocrates as follows:
ejn
ajnqrwvpou
fuvsei
eJptav
eijsin
w|rai
ktl..
paidivon
mevn
ejstin
a[cri"
eJpta