Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
youth
Usage: νεότης, -ητος, ἡ (νέος), [in LXX chiefly for נָעוּר ;] youth: Mrk.10:20, Luk.18:21, Act.26:4, 1Ti.4:12.† (AS)
Neotes means “youth” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3503 — yithro (“Jethro”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3503 νεότης (neotes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. neotes (neh-ot'-ace) n. 1. newness, i.e. youthfulness [from G3501] It has 68 linked Bible usages across 26 books. Visible English usage signals include youth. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
neotes (neh-ot'-ace) n. 1. newness, i.e. youthfulness [from G3501] KJV: youth Root(s): G3501
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youth
Usage: νεότης, -ητος, ἡ (νέος), [in LXX chiefly for נָעוּר ;] youth: Mrk.10:20, Luk.18:21, Act.26:4, 1Ti.4:12.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render neotes, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, 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 G3503 (νεότης) appears 65 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.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
47 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not anymore curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore anymore smite all living flesh as I have done.
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his seniority, and the younger according to his youth; and the men looked with amazement every one at his brother.
And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;
15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honorable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.
As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the people.
Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from our youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
And then shall all the righteous escape, And shall live till they beget thousands of children And all the days of their youth and their old age Shall they complete in peace.
First 68 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3503.
And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not anymore curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore anymore smite all living flesh as I have done.
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his seniority, and the younger according to his youth; and the men looked with amazement every one at his brother.
And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;
And if the daughter of a priest should be a widow, or put away, and have no seed, she shall return to her father’s house, as in her youth: she shall eat of her father’s bread, but no stranger shall eat of it.
And the ass says to Balaam, Am not I thine ass on which thou hast ridden since thy youth till this day? did I ever do thus to thee, utterly disregarding thee? and he said, No.
And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father’s house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand,
These are the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and daughter in her youth in the house of her father.
And now, behold, the king goes before you; and I am grown old and shall rest; and, behold, my sons are among you; and, behold, I have gone about before you from my youth to this day.
And Saul said to David, Thou wilt not in anywise be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for thou art a mere youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
And now arise, and go forth, and speak comfortably to thy servants; for I have sworn by the Lord, that unless thou wilt go forth today, there shall not a man remain with thee this night: and know for thyself, this thing will indeed be evil to thee beyond all the evil that has come upon thee from thy youth until now.
And it shall come to pass when I shall have departed from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee to a land which I know not, and I shall go in to tell the matter to Ahab, and he will not find thee and will slay me: yet thy servant fears the Lord from his youth.
For thou hast written evil things against me, And thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.
His bones have been filled with vigor of his youth, And it shall lie down with him in the dust.
(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, And guided them from my mother’s womb).
Therefore let their soul die in youth, And their life be wounded by messengers of death.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance: Remember me according to thy mercy, For thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
And I will go in to the altar of God, To God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to thee on the harp, O God, my God.
For thou art my support, O Lord; O Lord, thou art my hope from my youth.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, And until now will I declare thy wonders;
I am poor and in troubles from my youth; And having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.
Who satisfies thy desire with good things: So that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.
A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, Let Israel now say:
Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: And yet they prevailed not against me.
Whose children are as plants, Strengthened in their youth: Their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously Adorned after the similitude of a temple.
Of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, And forgotten the covenant of God.
Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart blameless, But not in the sight of thine eyes: Yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, And put away evil from thy flesh: For youth and folly are vanity.
And remember thy Creator In the days of thy youth, Before the days of evil come, And the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the abundance of thy sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth; if thou canst be profited.
these shall be thy help. Thou hast wearied thyself with traffic from thy youth: every man has wandered to his own home, but thou shalt have no deliverance.
The Lord has not called thee as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth, saith thy God.
And he said, Thus saith the Lord, I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals, in following the Holy One of Israel, saith the Lord.
But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.
We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.
I spoke to thee on occasion of thy trespass, but thou saidst, I will not hearken. This has been thy way from thy youth, thou hast not hearkened to my voice.
For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed thee that I bore reproach from my youth.
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah alone did evil in my sight from their youth.
It is good for a man When he bears a yoke in his youth.
and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.
And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.
And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,
And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, the things which thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodging, where were the breasts of thy youth.
And one shall say, I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the ground, for a man brought me up thus from my youth.
Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast forsaken, and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.
And did he not do well? and there was the residue of his spirit. But ye said, What does God seek but a seed? But take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake not the wife of thy youth.
The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honorable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.
As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the people.
Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from our youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.
For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures.
Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: And let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.
Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; And youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.
I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, And I was a lover of her beauty.
My son, gather instruction from thy youth up: So shalt thou find wisdom till thine old age.
Hast thou children? instruct them, And bow down their neck from their youth.
If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, How canst thou find anything in thine age?
Give him not liberty in youth.
A daughter is a wakeful care to a father; And the care for her taketh away sleep: When she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; And being married, lest she should be hated:
Slew he not a giant, when he was yet but young? And did he not take away reproach from the people, When he lifted up his hand with the stone in the sling, And beat down the boasting of Goliath?
How wise wast thou in thy youth, And, as a flood, filled with understanding!
Even from the flower till the grape was ripe Hath my heart delighted in her: My foot went the right way, From my youth up sought I after her.
And then shall all the righteous escape, And shall live till they beget thousands of children And all the days of their youth and their old age Shall they complete in peace.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3503, grouped by book.
Neotes (Strong's G3503) is a Greek word most simply glossed "youth". neotes (neh-ot'-ace) n. 1. newness, i.e. youthfulness [from G3501]
This page currently indexes 68 linked usages for Strong's G3503 across 26 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3503 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as youth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 47 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3503, with linked reader references where each row is available.