νεανίας

νεανίας — neanías

νεανίας, νεανίου, ὁ (from νέαν, and this from νέος; cf. μεγιστάν (which see), ξυνάν), from Homer down; Hebrew נַעַר and בָּחוּר; a young man: Act 20:9; Act 23:17, and R G in 18 (so here WH text), 22; it is used as in Greek writings, like the Latinadulescens and the Hebrew נַעַר (Gen 41:12), of men between twenty-four and forty years of age (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 213; (Diogenes Laërtius 8, 10; other references in Stephanus' Thesaurus, see under the words, νεᾶνις, νεανίσκος): Act 7:58.