Neanías — G3494

Definition

masculine noun

a youth (up to about forty years)

1. a young man

Usually translated as

young man

Origin

from a derivative of G3501

• néos (G3501)

Occurrences

Neanías occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (5)

• Acts 7:58 — And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s (νεανίου) feet, whose name was Saul.
• Acts 20:9 — And there sat in a window a certain young man (νεανίας) named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
• Acts 23:17 — Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man (νεανίαν) unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him.
• Acts 23:18 — So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man (νεανίαν) unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.
• Acts 23:22 — So the chief captain then let the young man depart (νεανίαν), and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.