NEPHEW.In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] nephew means grandson. It occurs in Jdg_12:14, Job_18:19, Isa_14:22, 1Ti_5:4.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Often used in the old English sense "grandson" (1Ti_5:4; Jdg_12:14; Isa_14:29; Job_18:19).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
nef?ū, nev?ū. See RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Nephew
is used in the old English sense of grandson as a rendering נֶכֶד(neked, Job_18:19; Isa_14:22; progeny, especially a "son's son," as rendered in Gen_21:23), and E'cyoioi, a descendant (1Ti_5:4). SEE KINDRED.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.