υἱὸς

Detailed Definition

• 1a son
• 2rarely used for the young of animals
• 3term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality
• 4used to describe adam (see luke 3:38)
• 5used to describe those who are born again (see luke 20:36) and of angels and of jesus christ
• 6son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the babylonian, the median and the persian, the macedonian, and the roman) typified by the four beasts
• 7generally used of the offspring of men
• 8in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)
• 9used by christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human race, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind
• 10of those whom god esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others
• 11son of man
• 12in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,
• 13son of god
• 14those who revere god as their father, the pious worshipers of god, those who in character and life resemble god, those who are governed by the spirit of god, repose the same calm and joyful trust in god which children do in their parents (see romans 8:14, galatians 3:26), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of god
• 15used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower