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Νέος means new, fresh, or young, often emphasizing recentness or youth. Jesus' wineskin saying speaks of new wine whose active fermentation requires suitable skins, illustrating the incompatibility of His kingdom presence with attempts to contain it inside unchanged structures.
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Νέος means new, fresh, or young, often emphasizing recentness or youth. Jesus' wineskin saying speaks of new wine whose active fermentation requires suitable skins, illustrating the incompatibility of His kingdom presence with attempts to contain it inside unchanged structures.
The BSB source-word alignment has 24 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include new (8), younger (3), [and] younger [women] (1), [the] younger [widows] (1), [Treat] younger [men] (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 9:17. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (7), 1 Timothy (4), Acts (2), Mark (2).
Νέος means new, fresh, or young, often emphasizing recentness or youth. Jesus' wineskin saying speaks of new wine whose active fermentation requires suitable skins, illustrating the incompatibility of His kingdom presence with attempts to contain it inside unchanged structures. John contrasts Peter's freedom when young with the dependence and suffering that will mark old age.
Acts calls the younger men who carry Ananias's body away νέοι, using the word simply for age. Newness is not automatically moral superiority, and youth is not spiritual immaturity by definition. The noun modified, comparison made, and narrative setting determine whether the emphasis is fresh wine, recent condition, chronological youth, or contrast with what is old.
Νέος marks youth or recent newness. Fresh wine that cannot be contained by old skins contrasts with young adults performing practical service and Peter's changing life across age.
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
New wine and new skins illustrate that Jesus' presence cannot be treated as content poured into religious patterns left structurally unchanged; both wine and container matter.
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”
Mark's compact saying stresses the destructive mismatch between fermenting wine and old skins rather than declaring every inherited practice obsolete.
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.
Luke repeats the danger of spill and ruin, then preserves the surrounding tension between attraction to the old and the disruptive newness Jesus brings.
Truly, truly, I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”
Jesus contrasts Peter's self-directed youth with an old age in which another will lead him, interpreting the future as a death that glorifies God.
Then the young men stepped forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
The young men carry and bury Ananias after sudden judgment, an ordinary age designation within a sobering account of truth and holiness in the church.
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Greek word. New in time (recent), distinct from καινός which means new in quality or kind
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 10 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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νέος is a primary word - no further derivation.
Signals redemptive newness inaugurated by Christ.Mark 2:18–22
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Newness has force only in relation to what is new and what must receive it. Fresh wine continues working and will rupture an old skin unable to yield, so Jesus refuses to be added as a patch within unchanged expectations. The saying is not a slogan for every innovation; it is governed by the bridegroom's presence and kingdom mission. John 21 uses youth literally, contrasting Peter's earlier freedom with future dependence and costly witness.
Acts likewise names young men without turning youth into a spiritual category. Churches should welcome renewal demanded by Christ while testing novelty by Scripture, honor young servants without romanticizing them, and honor aging disciples whose dependence may itself become faithful witness.
Matt.9.17
Νέος is an adjective emphasizing youth or recentness, in contrast with old or aged. It differs in nuance from καινός, which often emphasizes newness in kind or quality, though usage overlaps.
God promises covenant renewal without proving His former word false, and younger and older people share responsibility in the covenant community. Christ brings the promised new reality.