What does παιδάριον (paidárion) mean in the Bible?
παιδάριον (paidárion) is a Greek word meaning "a little boy".
Greek · G3808
παιδάριον
A little boy
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παιδάριονG3808
Pronunciationpaidárion
What does παιδάριον (paidárion) mean in the Bible?
παιδάριον (paidárion) is a Greek word meaning "a little boy".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3808?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include a boy (1).
Where does παιδάριον (paidárion) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at John 6:9. Its strongest book concentrations include John (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ita boy1×John 6:9
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowJohn 6:9
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
John1
Source forms
παιδάριον1xpaidarionJohn 6:9
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular1xJohn 6:9
Evidence Summary
Greek word. a little boy
Strong'sG3808
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
a little boy
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 11:16Noun Dative Plural Neuter
παιδαρίοιςpaidarioiv
a little boy, lad
Read verseJohn 6:9Noun Nominative Singular Neuter
παιδάριονpaidarion
a little boy, lad
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · NeuterJohn 6:91×
Word Origins
παιδάριον is built from this root: