'Child' in the Bible

The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will surround you. Therefore, the child will be holy and will be called the Son of God.

When the time came for Elizabeth to have her child, she gave birth to a son.

On the eighth day they went to circumcise the child. They were going to name him Zechariah after his father,

Everyone who heard about it kept thinking what had happened and asked, "What will this child become?" because it was obvious that the hand of the Lord was with him.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, because you will go ahead of the Lord to prepare his way

Now the child continued to grow and to become spiritually strong. He lived in the wilderness until the day he appeared in Israel.

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.

When they saw this, they repeated what they had been told about this child.

Led by the Spirit, he went into the Temple. When the parents brought the child Jesus to do for him what was customary under the Law,

Meanwhile, the child continued to grow and to become strong. He was filled with wisdom, and God's favor rested upon him.

Suddenly, a man in the crowd shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he is my only child.

But Jesus, knowing their inner thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him.

Then he told them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, because the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest."

"His father told him, "My child, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

"But Abraham said, "My child, remember that during your lifetime you received blessings, while Lazarus received hardships. But now he is being comforted here, while you suffer.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never get into it at all."

and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.