new

Greek Adjective

νέος, -α, -ον [in LXX for נַעַר (Gen.37:2, Exo_33:11, al.), חָדָשׁ (Lev.23:16, Num.28:26, al.), etc; compar. -ώτερος for קָטָן, צָעִיר, etc;] 1) young, youthful: Tit.2:4. 2) new (prop, in respect of time; see: καινός): οἶνος (cf. οἶ. καινός, Mat.26:20), Mat.9:17, Mrk.2:22, Luk.5:37-39; φύραμα (figuratively), 1Co.5:7; διαθήκη (cf. καινὴ δ, Heb.9:15), Heb.12:24; metaphorically, ἄνθρωπος (cf. καινὸς ἀ, Eph.2:15), Col.3:10. 3) Compar, -ώτερος, -α, -ον, younger: Luk.15:12-13 22:26, Jhn.21:18; pl, οἱ ν, Act.5:6 (Rackham, in l), 1Ti.5:11, Tit.2:6; opposite to πρεσβύτεροι, 1Ti.5:1, 1Pe.5:5; αἱ ν, 1Ti.5:2 5:14. 4) Νέα Πόλις, Neapolis: Act.16:11 (Rec, Νεάπολις, which see) νεώτερος, see: νέος SYN.: καινός, which see (AS)

new

Greek Adjective

νέος, νέα, Ionic dialect νέη, νέον; Ionic dialect νεῖος (which see): [feminine νέας as monosyllable, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; contraction feminine νῆ [Refs 6th c.BC+] 1) young, youthful (of children, youths, and of men at least as old as [Refs 8th c.BC+]youths, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: later mostly with Article, οἱ νέοι [Refs 5th c.BC+] 'boys will be boys', [Refs 4th c.AD+]; οἱ ν, corporately organized, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to γεραιός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐθὺς ἐκ νέου ἐθίζειν from youth upwards, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ νέας (i.e. ψυχῆς) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ν, ={νεότης}, youth (in the abstract), [Refs 5th c.BC+] all young creatures, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, of minors, νέου ὄντος ἔτι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare νεώτερος. 1.b) rarely of animals and plants, ὄρπηκες, ἔρνος, [Refs 8th c.BC+] 2) suited to a youth, youthful, ἄεθλοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. φροντίς youthful spirits, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, ἄφρων νέος τε [Refs 5th c.BC+] II) new, fresh, ν. θάλαμος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; λίνον [Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἡ ν. (i.e. σελήνη) the new moon, especially in phrase ἕνη καὶ νέα, see at {ἕνος} [Refs]; but μηνὸς τῇ ν. (i.e. ἡμέρᾳ) on the first day of the month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in this sense rarely of persons, ὁ ν. ταγὸς μακάρων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare νεώτερος. II.2) of events, etc, new, with collateral notion of unexpected, strange, untoward, evil, τί ν; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῶν τι βουλεύῃ ν; [Refs 5th c.BC+] III) neuter νέον as adverb of Time, lately, just now, opposed to both to distant past and present, παῖδα ν. γεγαῶτα [Refs 8th c.BC+] adverb νεωτέρως,[Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative νεώτατα most recently, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐκ νέας, Ionic dialect αὖτις ἐκ νέης, anew, afresh, [Refs 5th c.BC+] IV). the degrees of comparative are νεώτερος, νεώτατος, see at {νεώτερος}: νεαίτερος is corrupt for νεαίρετος in [Refs 4th c.BC+], cf. Sanskrit návas, Latin novus, etc.)

Greek

Adjective

"new", i.e. (of persons) youthful, or (of things) fresh; figuratively, regenerate; new, young; including the comparative ; a primary word