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Définitions du dictionnaire biblique pour : "Babe"
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Babe
<1,,1025,brephos>
denotes (a) "an unborn child," as in Luke 1:41,44; (b) "a newborn child, or an infant still older," Luke 2:12,16; 18:15; Acts 7:19; 2 Tim. 3:15; 1 Pet. 2:2. See CHILD, INFANT.
<2,,3516,nepios>
lit., "without the power of speech," denotes "a little child," the literal meaning having been lost in the general use of the word. It is used (a) of "infants," Matt. 21:16; (b) metaphorically, of the unsophisticated in mind and trustful in disposition, Matt. 11:25 and Luke 10:21, where it stands in contrast to the wise; of those who are possessed merely of natural knowledge, Rom. 2:20; of those who are carnal, and have not grown, as they should have done, in spiritual understanding and power, the spiritually immature, 1 Cor. 3:1, those who are so to speak partakers of milk, and "without experience of the word of righteousness," Heb. 5:13; of the Jews, who, while the Law was in force, were in state corresponding to that of childhood, or minority, just as the word "infant" is used of a minor, in English law, Gal. 4:3, "children;" of believers in an immature condition, impressionable and liable to be imposed upon instead of being in a state of spiritual maturity, Eph. 4:14, "children." "Immaturity" is always associated with this word. See CHILD, No. 7
Note: The corresponding verb, nepiazo, is found in 1 Cor. 14:20, where believers are exhorted to be as "babes" (RV) in malice, unable to think or speak maliciously.