Infant

InfantA human being between the age of birth and speech.

God used this word 5 times in Scripture, and He denotes the difference between “infant and suckling”: 4 times to Israel in the Masoretic Text Old Testament, and once to Israel in the Koine Greek Old Testament.

The word infant literally means “not speaking”.  An infant is a child that has not yet learned to speak.  A suckling is a child that is not yet weaned.  Both of which may be what we call toddlers; learning to walk, but not yet speaking and not yet weaned.

Because child development occurs differently for each child, a combination of nature and nurture, there is no specific age for each stage of development.

See also Baby/Babe, Boy, Child, Damsel, Girl, Grown, Lad

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