"recent, new, fresh, Mt. 9:17; 1 Cor. 5:7; Col. 3:10; Heb. 12:24; young, youthful, Tit. 2:4. In Acts 16:11 is used in the name Νέαν πόλις, which some lexicons list as its own lexical form. This occurrence is not included in the word’s frequency count."
Definition and meaning
recent, new, fresh, Mt. 9:17; 1 Cor. 5:7; Col. 3:10; Heb. 12:24; young, youthful, Tit. 2:4. In Acts 16:11 is used in the name Νέαν πόλις, which some lexicons list as its own lexical form. This occurrence is not included in the word’s frequency count.
In the original Greek the word is written: νέος
Historical context
Rome had controlled Judea since 63 BC. Herod the Great rebuilt the Temple into one of the most magnificent structures in the ancient world — and simultaneously murdered members of his own family. The common people paid multiple layers of taxation and were politically powerless. Into that world a carpenter from Galilee began teaching that the kingdom of God had arrived.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of neos (G3501) across the King James Bible.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
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Common questions
Strong's G3501 (neos) is a Greek word that means: recent, new, fresh, Mt. 9:17; 1 Cor. 5:7; Col. 3:10; Heb. 12:24; young, youthful, Tit. 2:4. In Acts 16:11 is used in the name Νέαν πόλις, which some lexicons list as its own lexical form. This occurre... It appears 20 times in the King James Bible.
The word neos (G3501) appears 20 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G3501 is neos, a Greek word defined as: recent, new, fresh, Mt. 9:17; 1 Cor. 5:7; Col. 3:10; Heb. 12:24; young, youthful, Tit. 2:4. In Acts 16:11 is used in the name Νέαν πόλις, which some l. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
neos is a Greek word found in the New Testament.