Lad
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.
(2): ( v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
(3): ( superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; - opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; - said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
(4): ( superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
John 6:9Child
King James Dictionary [3]
LAD, n. Heb. to procreate or bear young. A young man or boy a stripling.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( נִעִר , Na'Ar, often rendered "young man," etc.; N.T. Παιδάριον , a Little Child, the last occurring only John 6:9, and " child" in Matthew 11:16; both terms being originally without respect to sex). The Heb. word occasionally thus rendered in the Auth.Vers., although occasionally standing for a girl or maiden ( Genesis 24:14; Genesis 24:16; Genesis 24:28; Genesis 24:55; Genesis 34:3; Genesis 34:12; Deuteronomy 22:15 sq.), for which the fem. noun ( נִעֲרָה , Naarah') is usually employed, properly denotes a Boy, being prob. a primitive word. It is spoken of an infant just born (Exodus ii, 6; Judges 13:5; Judges 13:7; 1 Samuel 4:21), of a boy not yet full grown ( Genesis 21:16 sq.; Genesis 22:12; Isaiah 7:16; Isaiah 8:4), and of a youth nearly twenty years old ( Genesis 34:19; Genesis 41:12; 1 Kings 3:7; 2 Samuel 18:5; 2 Samuel 18:29). (See Child), etc.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
In the Old Testament this word occurs as the translation of na‛ar , "young person," "child," "servant," the Revised Version (British and American) properly substituting "servant" in 2 Kings 4:19; Judges 16:26 is another passage where either sense of the original word may be intended. The word occurs in the New Testament in John 6:9 as the translation of παιδάριον , paidárion ; in Acts 20:12 , παῖς , paı́s (the King James Version "young man").
