Brephos means “infant” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1025 — beythhaemeq in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1025 βρέφος (brephos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. brephos (bref'-os) n. 1. an infant, (properly) unborn {literally or figuratively} It has 14 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include babe, infants, young, and child. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
brephos (bref'-os) n. 1. an infant, (properly) unborn {literally or figuratively} [of uncertain affinity] KJV: babe, (young) child, infant
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1025. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
infant
Usage: βρέφος, -ους, τό, [in LXX: Sir.19:11, 1Ma.1:61, 2Ma.6:10, 3Ma.5:49, 4Ma.4:25 * ;] __1. an unborn child: Luk.1:41, 44. __2. a newborn child, a babe: Luk.2:12, 16 18:15, Act.7:19, 1Pe.2:2; ἀπὸ βρέφους, from infancy, 2Ti.3:15. † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render brephos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1025 (βρέφος) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
8 indexed usages in New Testament.
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.
For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes hanging at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.
thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them, And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1025.
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.
For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes hanging at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.
thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, knowing beforehand of the punishment.
A fool travaileth with a word, As a woman in labor of a child.
And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them, And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1025, grouped by book.
Brephos (Strong's G1025) is a Greek word most simply glossed "infant". brephos (bref'-os) n. 1. an infant, (properly) unborn {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's G1025 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1025 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as babe, infants, young, and child. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1025, with linked reader references where each row is available.